Species - Proto-Octopus/ Proto-Squid

Appearance - Larger than the smallest fishes, but smaller than the largest fishes. Measuring at roughly 1 meters at width and 6.5 meters in length, the First Cephalopod has features from both of its later descendants. It has, in total, 10 appendages including 2 dominant tentacles and 8 arms. A dark beak situated at the base of the body. A large pair of eyes on both side of its head. Multicolor blots dotted across its skin, chromatopores, allow the First Cephalopod the ability to change its color at will. Suckers numbers in the thousands, each with hundred of small hooks, across its multiple arms allowing for strong grip. But instead of an elongated head similar to a squid, the First Cephalopod’s head is much more bulbous and closely resembles an octopus head.

Personality - An opportunistic predator. A miserable scavenger. The Cephalopod acts as a secondary predator in most world. They prey upon mollusks, crabs, and sometimes fishes. In turn, they are prey to larger fish and mammals like seals, whales, sharks and dolphin. This fact does not change in this new found world. And the First Cephalopod behavior is largely shaped by its position within the biological food chain. It ran when it saw something roughly its size. It hunts when it is something smaller. It is, by nature, curious to a fault. It is not the first time that it lost an arm to crabs or a fish. But it learns. I guess that is the only thing that is spectacular about the First Cephalopod. It is capable of learning.

Goals - To answer the calling from land. To explore the sudden change of water and the mysterious pull from down under.