
Stage 1
Stingfin
It looks like a fish no bigger than a palm, yet every fin tip bristles with venom-laced spines. Timid by nature, it rarely makes the first move, but when threatened it delivers a quick sting to numb its foe and slips away at leisure. Its venom is still faint, though anyone stung remembers that prickle for a long time.

Stage 2
Venoplume
When it spreads its splendid fins wide like a fan, any who are entranced by that beauty are already within range of its venom. Grown to maturity, it no longer flees. With venomous spines splayed in every direction, it threatens all that draw near and turns even the attacks aimed at it back with those very spines. It is a predator of the sea, cloaked in elegance and deadly poison alike.