From the ocean rose a giant,

Dreadful Tursas, ever hungry,

Spread the monster’s mighty jaws,

And rounds itself a dark corona,

Raises it above the ragged cliffs,

Far it stretches out its voided maw,

Swallows white-clouds in their courses,

With its razor-teeth it rends the sunlight,

With its many spines, the moonbeams,

And the starlight dies in heaven.

- A Tulita death chant translated by the explorer Greyson Thornfield.

The Iku-Tursas dwarfs even the largest shark along the Razor Coast, and is the unnatural alpha hunter in its

territory, stripping the sea and coast bare of life. Typically 30 feet long and weighing 8,000 lbs, it is covered in

tooth-like spines from snout to tail, its dorsal, pectoral and caudal fins are bony, serrated blades. The bloody

drool excreted from the Iku-Tursas’ skin fouls the water for miles around, infecting the fish and other sea life,

making them unfit for human consumption. Its maw is a void. Anything entering this black hole of insatiate

hunger is forever erased from the world, their very essence devoured by Dajobas himself.

Created by the Tulita tribes during vile, desperate exultations to Dajobas, the Iku-Tursas is tasked to take

revenge upon the tribe’s enemies by flooding their towns and devouring them wholesale. The rites of

transformation are held as one of the most horrific secrets of the Cult of Dajobas. Firstly, the supplicant is purged

by forced consumption of blood-laced seawater from sunset to sunset to induce vomiting. The petitioner is then

imprisoned without sustenance for weeks. During this vigil the supplicant’s skin is engraved by a priest of Dajobas

with dark, esurient runes, which are filled with ground black pearls worth 6,000gp. At the end of the fast the

petitioner’s teeth, wasted from starvation, are regrown as rows of vicious, triangular shark’s teeth as he is filled

with the desperate hunger of He Who Eats Worlds.

In the final ceremony, the supplicant feasts on his own arms until nothing remains but gory stumps – macabre

semblances of a shark’s pectoral fins. The cult leader then must cast control water and planar binding to

complete the ceremony, coaxing the petitioner’s tooth-filled gizzard to spasm out and envelope the host body

and form the Shark God’s Harbinger.