Bellacorn

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Bellacorn were huge sea monsters that were supposedly "occasional visitors" to Darkstone Bay in the I.C.E. Age. Few survivors existed to speak of the bellacorn, but they said it resembles a giant lizard stuffed in a turtle shell. It would bellow loudly to cause chaos, then smash into the sides of the ship, or rise up under it to turn it. It was difficult to pierce its shells or scales with weapons. They were particularly likely to be lurking on the east side of the Bay.

The bellacorn would slash open the crew with its fangs when they were in the water, letting them bleed out to attract scavengers so that it could kill and eat them as well. It was able to overpower ships greater than thirty feet long, and would come on land by dozens of yards to attack coastal settlements. It would walk on land using wide, flipper-like fins, which looked utterly grotesque and horrifying. Kestrel Etrevion was known to make trophies of bellacorn ivory. It is most likely intentional that the only place the bellacorn is referenced is in his burial mound, which is symbolically shaped as an overturned war ship that is covered in highly toxic flowers with blue leaves, perhaps resembling blood in the water.