Pelogi Whales

Pelogi Whales, also known as just Pelogi or (when solitary) Elu, are found in the Topazial Sea.

Pelogi are immense creatures, a adult may be as large as a Leviathan mermaid, with legends abounding that the farther east you go, the Pelogi get even LARGER. These marine creatures have a very curious appearance, however, which is not very whale like at all. They are rather flat, with a thick hide and six 'paddle' like limbs, three on each side, and a bizarre long, winding tail which ends in a large wedge shape. Their heads are described as nightmareish, sixteen 'small' eyes, the skin on their skulls often appear to be deeply scarred with almost runic shapes. The heads are also, rather then having a lower mouth, have a mouth which splits their head in half horizontally, revealling a massive and stretchy maw.

Pelogi are, naturally and usually, a very gentle species to most. They often swim in deeper waters in pods of up to twelve (although pods of thirty have been spotted), and they only eat schools of fishes, cecalia, and sometimes giant chlaena. They also have a curious habit of eating large swaths of sea sand, and no one is quite sure why, although some have proposed it's to make digestion easier.
Others, like mermaids and even the occasional human, have swam alongside Pelogi and naturally feel safe. Sometimes you can spot a school of mermaids catching a ride on one of their backs! Pelogi mate for life and have a gestation period of eight years. Pelogi have single births, and it takes fourty years for the Pelogi mother to be reproductively viable again. Pelogi calves stay with their mothers for fifty years, and most calves are born at twenty feet long. When adult, female calves will leave the pod to join another, while males stay behind. Pelogi are also strangely proficient in water magic, leading some to suggest they may be elementals, but they are not.

Some underwater communities regard Pelogi as sapient, but their intelligence is so foreign it is impossible to understand them.


However, there is a dark side to these gentle giants. Very rarely, for some reason that not even the vetealas know, an entire pod will go mad. These are classified as a species unto their own.

Inverted Pelogi Whales

Inverted Pelogi whales are different from normal Pelogi. For one, their skin, especially the hide on their head, appears to ripple and move as though it has a mind of it's own. Their eyes become blank and blue, and their 'paddles' become longer and bone protrusions appear out of them. The Inverted will eat their calves and then proceed to swim, never eating, never stopping. Through this trek, they sing a bizarre song, beautiful, haunting, and chilling.
Their final act is what they are most known and widely feared for. The pod of pelogi will swim upwards to the surface, but rather then breaking out of the water, they use their magic to surround themselves, continuing upwards until a giant wall of water appears, then they swim forward, creating a massive wave of water.

This water appears dark, a rather purple like color in fact, and any craft to be caught in this water is torn apart, the men aboard killed instantly.

The Inverted continue swimming, but by this point they are so weak, they will begin dropping out of this bizarre tsunami, hitting the water and causing huge waves of this dark water. When only one Inverted remains, the tsunami will dive downwards with such force, the remaining Inverted's body is obliterated into a bloody mess.

The water will return to normal, and the fish and other species will eat well.

When I started reading I just though "They're just reallt big whales done Felaryan style."
However I was pleasantly surprised to find out I was wrong. This is an original idea, I like it.
The Inverted Pelogi Whales give a bit of a dark twist to them. Why would such a thing happen?
That's a secret, I assume.

Love it, love it, love it. Wee.

Now with a PICTUUUUR!

Kinda scary. But hey, if that's the impression they're supposed to give off, then excellently done.

Very unique and very dark, with the inverted side to them. I love this idea^^

Pendragon wrote:

Kinda scary. But hey, if that's the impression they're supposed to give off, then excellently done.

They aren't supposed to be very scary.

neat idea, do people hunt them?

JC-Dragon wrote:

neat idea, do people hunt them?

I'm not trying to reply fo L'ryn or anything, but how would people hunt them? Look at the scale in the pic. They are huge. A harpoon wouldn't do anything.

AJ's right, kiddo. Pelogi whales are probably only hunted by the occasional kraken cecalia, and those are HUGE. Why would humans hunt for them anyway, lol?

I notice that their tails are very long. Any particular reason for that?
A long (and relatively thin) tail like that with a wedge shape at the end would be almost impossible to move underwater, there wouldn't be enough muscle in the tail to move it. Too much drag from the wedge. (I'm assuming here that they would use their tail like a normal whale.)

It's not that thin. I just can't... draw.

The tails, I think, would be more used as sort of a way to 'steer', true the tails are long, but Pelogi use the water magic they know to help propel themselves /lame excuse is lame/. The tails may also be used for mating as a way to 'hold onto' one another, and for defending themselves.

people do stupid things all the time. Maybe someone might find a use for hunting them. maybe somehting that large would provide a HUGE amount of oil or something, maybe it magic oil with special properties, I don't know I was just asking.

And now you sound angry?

But to answer it, no. No one hunts them. For obvious reasons.

I would hunt one, maybe.

Bu-but FalconJudge! Don't you know? PELOGI WHALES LOVE YOU! So when you feel sad, REMEMBERTHEPELOGIWHALESLOVEYOU! Pelogis love everyone!

FalconJudge wrote:

I would hunt one, maybe.

Pelogis; There are smaller islands.
What would you use to kill it? They are too big for you to kill with anything you could carry by yourself. Except a suitcase nuke. Which would kill you too.

Why is it that if it's not a pred, then everyone assumes that it's prey?

FalconJudge wrote:

I would hunt one, maybe.

Pelogi hunting party anyone?

I'd use magic! Electric magic, probably... And they aren't "prey" because they are not predators, they're prey because you could feed a family of 50 for weeks with it.

And sell the other parts.

FalconJudge wrote:

I'd use magic! Electric magic, probably... And they aren't "prey" because they are not predators, they're prey because you could feed a family of 50 for weeks with it.

And sell the other parts.

You could feed Negav if Pelogi were edible to humans.

You mean they're... poisonous? 'Cause besides that, they're man- bait. Human's gotta be able to catch and eat something.

Ever heard of the Steller's Seacow? http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/stellersseacow.htm Huge, but not a whale, but we hunted the poor thing to exctinction. And these are normal humans, not mages with awesome spells. We're doing the same to the Blue whale, or we were. Large sea critter = gooooooood meat. Of course, given the size, hunting Pelogis would be darn difficult, but rewarding as anything...

But really, if they are too gentle, we might be a huge threat...

FalconJudge wrote:

But really, if they are too gentle, we might be a huge threat...

Not possible. They are just too big. There's nothing in the human arsenal short of baby nukes and tactical missiles that could harm them. (Even then you'd need a fair few tactical missiles).

Anime-Junkie wrote:

FalconJudge wrote:

But really, if they are too gentle, we might be a huge threat...

Not possible. They are just too big. There's nothing in the human arsenal short of baby nukes and tactical missiles that could harm them. (Even then you'd need a fair few tactical missiles).

It's what, 300 feet long? 500 ft? One level 8 lightning spell. They're atuned to the water enough that that would kill for sure, or at least wound. One would think. But nothing is impossible for a truly great mage.

FalconJudge wrote:

You mean they're... poisonous? 'Cause besides that, they're man- bait. Human's gotta be able to catch and eat something.

Ever heard of the Steller's Seacow? http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/stellersseacow.htm Huge, but not a whale, but we hunted the poor thing to exctinction. And these are normal humans, not mages with awesome spells. We're doing the same to the Blue whale, or we were. Large sea critter = gooooooood meat. Of course, given the size, hunting Pelogis would be darn difficult, but rewarding as anything...

But really, if they are too gentle, we might be a huge threat...

To put it into perspective. Pelogi are possibly even bigger then leviathan mermaids. You would need a kraken cecalia on your side to even stand a CHANCE against them.

Not true humans have nothing else to catch and eat in the sea, it's just no one has ever bothered to make a species for it.

Steller's Seacow and the Blue Whale are still nothing close to the size of a Pelogi.

And about lightening spells, you would need a BIG lightening bolt to harm one of these guys. You do recall they have a thick hide, right?

PS.
Imagine making an entire pod of them angry.

Ah, yes... the "pod" thing would be a huge problem.

Maybe pick off a young straggler? Oh, and it's not just the meat, you'd truly be a lgendary fisherman to kill one...

But I was wrong, it might be a bad idea to try...