Goblin Shark
“The ugliest beautiful hunter in the Midnight, and it knows exactly what it's doing.”
A Pressure denizen of The Midnight
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
Its snout reads the electric fields of living things, and its jaws shoot forward off its face to grab them — the fastest bite in the deep sea, launched like a weapon. The Goblin Shark looks like a goblin and hunts like an engineer.
Happening now
It cruises the Midnight with its snout sweeping, reading the dark for heartbeats. When it finds one, the jaw fires — a tenth of a second, over before the prey knows it was hunted.
What may come
The engineers of the surface world are building machines that copy its jaw. The Goblin Shark is unbothered: it has been first for a hundred million years, and patents don't apply in the dark.
Connected
The Midnight
No sunlight has ever reached here. Anglerfish hold solitary lure-territories under the Treaty of the Lure: a light is sovereign ground, and stealing another’s glow is war.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Pressure
- Zone
- The Midnight — the inkbound
- Rarity
- Epic
- Personality
- Its jaw fires like a slingshot.
- Edition
- One of 40
- Stats
- power 84 · speed 78 · charm 58