Domesticated dolphin

Dolphins in the past were wild animals and were at odds with the calamor. Most of them still do, but there have been domesticated dolphins for a few hundred years.

The domestication of dolphins is not an easy process. It is unlike cows and pigs on the surface where they can be bred. To have a domesticated dolphin, you must catch a wild one and break it in. It is a dangerous feat because a bigger dolphin can quickly kill an adult calamor, and there are not many tricks a calamor can use against them.

Usually, calamor use nets and smaller spears with which they can cause a lot of minor wounds to make the dolphin lose a lot of blood to make it slower. This is a highly dangerous tactic because the blood will lure sharks too. That is why a small group usually goes to catch a dolphin. One or two calamor will work on the dolphin, and the rest fend off the sharks.

However, there is a newer tactic to catch the dolphin, and it uses poisons. There is a particular poison that is harmless to the calamor. They coat many of their suction cups with it, and during the catch, they coil around the dolphin as much as they can far from its dangerous mouth and let the poison affect the dolphin. After a few minutes, the animal becomes very docile, and it is easy to take it back to the aquarium, where skilled animal trainers can break it in without the danger of attracting sharks.

In a couple of places, the calamor tries to breed dolphins to forgo the dangerous catch entirely, but there has been no success.

There are many variants of domesticated dolphins, but they have two main functions. One is as mounts because dolphins are much faster swimmers and can cover greater distances than a calamor. The other function is as a draft animal. Although usually whales are used for this task, there are smaller places where whales will not fit; instead, dolphins are used.

We went through a lot together with my great mount, Bonrod

— Vruhb, calamor wanderer