Tottoteruri

An illustration of Tottoteruri from the official Japanese guidebook for Moon.

**Tottoteruri** (トットテルリ, *Tottoteruri*) is an animal who is the revered deity of the Kakunte Tribe. Its body can be found in the Mushroom Forest after it was slaughtered by the Hero's lightning spell, much to the horror of the Kakunte people.

## Characteristics

Tottoteruri is a colossal fish with a deep blue body, dotted with irregular spots of white. It appears to have 5 fins in total; 2 dorsal, 1 pelvic, 1 anal and 1 caudal fin. The cry it makes sounds much like an elephant.

### Animal File

 **ENG** | "The Kakunte Tribe have a song whose lyrics include the phrase, 'Tottoteruri has flown to us~' Historians believe that Tottoteruri might have flown to them sometime in the ancient past."

## How to Catch

### Hint

The Kakunte are particularly protective of their worship of Tottoreruri. If the player talks to Florence, they might learn a thing or two about what *really* makes them happy (see the Obtaining Love section of the Kakunte Tribe page for details).

The first, and perhaps most important one, can be received from Florence after hearing all of his dialogue in the Mushroom Forest (he will move in a generally northern direction every time he's spoken to).
The second can be bought from Curio's shop at night for 1000 Yenom; he will try to sell this to the player upon leaving the building.

Make sure you have gathered all the fragments, then do the ritual again.

"This ancient slab, called a Rumrom on Moonworld, is inscribed with chromatic Kakunte language.
Kanta = Red; Sonho = Black; Ponta = Gold; Tanpa = White; Monta = Green."

Curio's Rumrom (aka Kakunte Stone):
"This ancient slab, called a Rumrom on Moonworld, is inscribed with traditional Kakunte language.
Homeh = Ritual; Bomaana = Morning; Domansa = Night; Tero = Eat; Baama = Mushroom."

The player will need to initiate a sacred mushroom ritual which can be performed by collecting the five different types of Myshroom scattered around the Mushroom Forest and eating them at night in this order: black, gold, red, green, and white.
After the cutscene head to the Tropical Fields and touch all of the little floating skeleton fish scattered about. There are 24 fish total to find in Tropical Fields: 8 by the way to the Protagonist's House, 8 near the way to Shellfish Cove (there's a sneaky, out-of-the-way one to the south of the other 7 fish), and 8 near Cave Guy's Cave. Once this is done, the ritual must be performed again. If this has been done correctly, Tottoteruri will be saved and the player will be granted access to the Mushroom Forest Fishing Spot, of which is needed to beat the game.

## Trivia

* Tottoteruri's in-game clay model greatly resembles the West Indian Ocean coelacanth, one of two living species of coelacanth, and also critically endangered. Tottoteruri's lore considering the ancient past also relates to the coelacanth being the oldest-known living lineage of Sarcopterygii, or "lobe-finned" fish.
* In Onion Games' Million Onion Hotel, there appears a large, robotic coelacanth, which is the final boss of the game, *Teruriteruri,* it shares a simular apperance to Tottoteruri. This is one of the few references to Moon that appear in Million Onion Hotel, with others being the Kakunte Tribe and Yoshida.