Hocavi

A territorial predator of the ice sheets that frost the surface of Paperweight's oceans, the hocavi is an enormously fat creature with four large, clawed flippers, tough and coarse gray skin, and a powerful horn of twisted ivory which it uses to puncture the ice in ambush or to surface for air. When threatened, they grunt loudly to challenge the offending creature, aggressively fighting for survival and for territory.

Belaul hunters extract oil from their blubber to light fires or to polish their weapons and armor, and use the remaining fat to prepare hoctucc, a staple food for anyone likely to be caught out in the snowfields for long.