#pelagic phocids and selkies make excellent underwater navigators when it's murky because they have a slight echolocation ability

[ranticore]

who was huarvaas friend in the murky swim painting? is that a character we know?

a lil selkie harbour pilot, not a character that's appeared here before but their job is to steer new and unfamiliar swimmers and vessels into the Spire dock system so that they don't cause a big crash or interrupt shipping lane traffic. huarvaa worked in conjunction with the harbour pilots for a while as a sort of heavy-goods pilot, pulling barges up to the appropriate docks