Meetok Fish

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Meetok Fish
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Fauna
Official Name Meetok Fish
Common Nicknames Mssrassollon Pssios, Chellchay
Classification Fish
Habitat Sendrass
Domesticated No
Current Status Common

The Meetok Fish is a swamp-dwelling fish from Serass, and is one of the most populous animals on the jungled landmasses. With origins dating back centuries, the animal has remained unchanged over the years, as it has near-perfectly adapted to the swamps and vegetation-filled rivers of the landmass. It is most known for its brilliant emerald, ruby and sapphire colorations as well as having an incredibly brief life cycle. Today, people and animals across the world enjoy this fish as a food source, greatly enjoying the simple but tasty creature.

History

The Meetok Fish has existed as long as the Allar have lived on Sendras, and certainly as long for the similarly old Solang on their own landmass of Solangeria. Allar records are plentiful on this subject, often noting the animal in their celebration feast as a common delicacy. It was particularly enjoyed among the aquatic Es-Allar, who fished and lived in the rivers of Sendras for centuries until their fall. The vast amounts of the fish meant it was a stable food source throughout the entirety of the Sendrassian Civil War, with neither side needing to worry about running out of it. When the Al and Sa-Allar were removed from Sendras, the fish became just one of the many treasures lost to the next generation of Allar, with elders spreading tales of the brightly colored fish throughout the different Allar kingdoms. The common name of “Meetok” was given by an Ailor biologist who, inspired by Allar myths of such brightly colored fish, briefly traveled to Sendras’ coast where he captured several specimens. He then named the “new” species after himself and the name has stuck ever since. Today, the Solang, Mu-Allar and carnivorous wildlife of Serass continue to eat this fish as part of their everyday diet.

Physical Appearance

The Meetok Fish is a deceptively simple fish in appearance, though it possesses a few hidden secrets. They are around a foot long with a narrow, long, elliptic-shaped body and a weight of seven pounds on average. At the head, there exist two simple, green-colored eyes faced to the sides. Their mouth is small, used only for pecking away and eating the plant matter of which their diet is composed of. Closer to the underside of the animal are four sets of gills. Directly behind the last pair of gills is a set of membraned fins which help the fish with finer body movements than their large tail cannot accomplish. At the other end of their elliptical bodies is a full finned tail which begins as a dorsal fin midway down their back before continuing into the tail shape. Along the side of the body between this tail and the gills is a series of faint zigzag patterns which begin at the dorsal fin and end at the tip of the body. The most prominent trait of the Meetok Fish is undoubtedly their brilliant emerald, ruby or sapphire coloration. Additionally, their fins are the same shade of green as their eyes.

Diversity

The Meetok Fish have three different colors to their scales, being brilliant shades of green, blue and red respectively. There is equal gender diversity, and there is no external indicator of the different sexes except when a female is pregnant, which results in the lower-rear end of her body thickening.

Life Span and Development

The Meetok has an incredibly quickly lifespan and development cycle. They are born in small, near-spherical eggs often made ten or twelve at a time, all of which are barely a centimeter wide. They quickly break out of their larval stage once hatched, growing to an adult size in less than two weeks and can reproduce after another two weeks. Meetok Fish naturally have the ability to live for three years but rarely make it past one year let alone six months before they are eaten.

Mental Overview

Meetok Fish are rather mindless in their day to day lives. They cluster in schools of green, red and blue, swimming through the many swamps and rivers of Sendras and Solangeria without much care in the world. They are born, eat, grow, reproduce, and eventually die in some violent fashion. Some have observed a low-level confusion tactics that most often works with animal predators and inexperienced hunters. They tend to swarm these two parties in sudden and huge numbers, rushing around them in rapid movements to create a low-level disorientating effect. They also have the unique ability to bend their body almost entirely back on itself when startled which allows them to dart away with greater ease.

Territory and Groupings

The Meetok Fish constantly moves up, down, and throughout the rivers and swamps of Serass in schools of 20 to, in some rare cases, 100. As such, they are not territorial and lack hostility to any intruder beyond simple survival mechanisms.

Trivia

  • The only thing all Allar subraces might agree on is that Meetok Fish tastes excellent.
  • The full name of the man who named the Meetok Fish was Coferndopillias Meetok, and he was too embarrassed by his first name ever to mention it in public.
  • Some Mu-Allar speak of fish nearly five times the size of typical Meetok Fish but bear all the same traits as them. These colossal creatures are also said to exist in a legendary lake translated in Zasta to “The Living Waters of Paradise”.

Accreditation
Writers HydraLana
Processors Fatherland, PonyoWantHam, Doc_Cantankerous
Last Editor HydraLana on 09/17/2017.

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