Shamoge

Shamoge is a massive alligator with thick scales, muscles, and limbs. Her tail is heavy and ends with a large caudal fin, similar to a sharks, with green splotches along each fin segment. Her tail also has a series of long, white spines that stick out of both sides, able to slam into things as she swims or swings her tail around. Her scales are three different browns, her back being the darkest brown, her main body having two richer browns with dull orange spots. Shamoge has bumpy, white spines crawling down her upper back and four sharper spines that stick out of her cheeks. A tuft of green sprouts sit on the very end of her chin like a lure. Her dark face is covered with various pink scars that continue down to her front arms and neck, and her green eyes sit vibrantly in their thick sockets.

Shamoge never basks with her mouth open because it makes her feel vulnerable and she feels that she needs to be ready to attack or move away, even though nothing in her home would dare attack her because she is far too powerful and respected. She also likes to hide just under the waters surface where she can blend in and peak on the world around her. Shamoge rarely gets the chance to speak to others, the only person she has ever truly gotten to socialize with is Jimmy. When she is convinced into holding a conversation, Shamoge is extremely friendly and loves to share her stories of the old Aqualora and distant worlds – and she can quickly get carried away with her speaking. You can tell when she’s enjoying something or someone’s company because her scales will relax and she will calmly rest on the bank away from the water.

Shamoge shows her affections by guiding and protecting. She doesn’t enjoy things like gifts or too much touch because it makes her feel vulnerable, but she doesn’t mind transporting or carrying Jimmy or Taelone around Aqualora and her home. If she finds lost sea creatures or saltfin alligators, she will quietly guide them back towards the estuary that leads back into the ocean – sometimes carrying shoals of fish in her jaws to make sure she gets all of them back to their water. She will not guide foreign creatures back, instead, she will eat them.

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All of the marsh in Aqualora is Shamoge’s home, but she has a small, hidden spot within the swamp where she primarily rests and returns to after swimming about or fending off parasites. It’s a deep water area that she is able to fully submerge in with clear water that is filled with sparkles of light and water lilies. In the middle of this large water clearing is a ring of pale stones that are completely smooth like worn river rocks and they encase a shallow bit of water between them. This shallow pool has subtle healing effects and is very warm compared to the outside waters that are cool and natural.

In this spring she can bask and heal any scale injuries or quickly regrow lost teeth from anything that she has snapped at, otherwise she will only swim around in the outer circle of water to keep her precious pool clean and safe from splashing. She won’t allow anyone else to enter this pool, but she will tolerate things sitting on the circle of rocks that surround it.

Shamoge knows a lot more about the natural world than she does of the human or other civilized creatures worlds because she has spent much more time in the solitude of nature. She has observed humans for centuries in Aqualora from the times when they did not have a city yet all the way to the times where all of the humans died to parasites, but she has never wandered into the city in fear of not being understood for her divine role.

Shamoge’s duty as a deity is to protect the marsh and wildlife of Aqualora, but with Taelone’s recent arrival she has reluctantly allowed him to take over the ocean part for her and only focuses on her sacred marsh. She keeps the ecosystem in balance, destroys parasites that enter, and keeps foreign animals and humans out of the realm to preserve its remains. She takes her job very seriously and is willing to kill to protect her realm.