Piranha

Piranhas were small schooling predatory freshwater fish.

Behavior
Piranhas were known to travel in schools of five and up to fifty individual fish. They were aggressive and were likely to attack any living creature found in the school's vicinity. Once a single drop of blood was spilled, the entire school swarmed the prey in blinding berserk bloodlust.

Piranhas' bloodlust was dangerous to their own kin as well as their prey. When prey was able to slay a big portion of the school, the frenzied fish often turned to cannibalism, consuming their own.

Ecology
The members of the Assassins Guild of the Galenas in Damara built their citadel above the river waters infested with hungry piranhas. Citadel's many traps led directly into the perilous waters.

Piranha could be found in the jungles of Chult. In the waters of River Olung piranhas were hunters and scavengers, consuming dead creatures who died in the water or on the river shores.

In Maztica, piranha swarms were a constant danger in the swamps and jungle rivers.

Species

 * Saltwater piranhas - creatures, magically summoned by the inhabitants of the Sea of Fallen Stars, often as a part of aquatic traps, via animal summoning I spell.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * The Bloodstone Wars &bull; Fires of Zatal &bull; Wyrmskull Throne
 * Novels
 * The Ring of Winter


 * The Night Parade &bull; The Floodgate
 * Gamebooks


 * To Catch a Thief