Lore:Mock Turtle

A Mock Turtle

"Oh, dear, [...] I'm afraid I've bored you. You've been so kind to listen to the maunderings of an ancient reptile...please say my name backwards where it will do the most good, accept as a token of my gratitude a product of my researches in the field of Speculative Ontology." — Mock Turtle

The Mock Turtle is a rare species of giant Great Turtle that have been known to exist since at least 2E 582, in a place beyond the Weir Gate. The species is the source of the famous Mock Turtle soup, the "Soup of Kings". Despite the evidence, however, most scholars have dismissed the existence of Mock Turtles as "pure nonsense".

The only known sighting of one was during the Imperial Simulacrum, where he helped an apprentice sent to the Battlespire by giving them a password to a chest. The Mock Turtle claimed that he was once "a real Turtle", and was educated in the obscure disciplines of the Quadriva Arithmetia—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision—and the courses of instruction in Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography, Drawling, Stretching, Fainting in Coils, Laughing, and Grief. However, no further insight into the Mock Turtle could be gained, as the apprentice had grown quite bored with the conversation.

Notes

• The Mock Turtle is described as half-living, half-architectural in the Battlespire Athenaeum.

Gallery

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  The Scute of the Mock Turtle