Pincer
“In the Undertow he is the Iron Tide's gentle giant of the drill yard, all armor and apology.”
A Iron echo of The Iron Tide
The living story
The story so far
Eight feet long. The largest arthropod that ever lived — a sea scorpion the size of a canoe, with pincers a foot long. Pincer could have been the Undertow's nightmare. Instead he is its drill-yard grandfather: he teaches the young placoderms to fall safely, carries the heavy lanterns, and apologizes when his shadow startles someone. 'Big,' he says, 'is just more to be careful with.' The Iron Tide pretends he's their enforcer. Everyone knows he's their teddy bear.
The Pincer within
“Pincer is eight feet of apology with foot-long pincers.”
Gentle, huge, and meticulously careful — the largest arthropod ever to live, now the Iron Tide's drill-yard grandfather, folding his pincers behind his back so the small ones won't flinch.
gentle, huge, careful, apologetic, protective, humble
- Loves
- the drill yard, the young, carrying heavy things
- Can't stand
- startling anyone, his own shadow, accidents
- How they befriend
- He'll carry your heaviest thing and apologize for the shadow.
- When you're having a bad day
- He'll teach you to fall safely in the drill yard until you're laughing. Then he'll carry you home. The shadow is safe, he promises.
How they’ll greet you: “Oh! Hello, small friend!”
A keeper’s whisper: Pincer has been careful for 390 million years. There is a reason, and it was an accident.
The Iron Tide
Armored Paleozoic seas — Dunkleosteus, Helicoprion, sea scorpions the size of canoes. Heavy armor, old grudges, the manners of a drowned court.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Iron
- Faction
- The Iron Tide — A debt of teeth is paid in teeth.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Personality
- Pincer the Jaekelopterus was eight feet of sea scorpion — the largest arthropod ever to live, with foot-long grasping pincers.
- Edition
- One of 10
- Stats
- power 88 · charm 70 · speed 55