Muckfish
Bloated, sluggish, and thick-skinned, the Muckfish wallows in the blackest, deepest beds of rivers where even light fails to penetrate. A bottom-feeding scavenger of considerable ugliness and negligible culinary value, it survives where finer fish cannot, a testament to the advantages of low standards and extreme hardiness.
Key traits
- Bloated and thick-skinned, with a repulsive appearance that has become something of a benchmark for ugliness among river creatures.
- A bottom-feeder and scavenger that inhabits the darkest, deepest river beds, moving only when hunger overrides its innate sluggishness.
- Foul-tasting and eaten only in desperation; it is not commercially fished under ordinary circumstances.
- Its remarkable hardiness allows it to survive conditions that kill more refined species, making it one of the most persistent fish in Elshore's river systems.