Started as a dolphin, ended as an orca. Whoops.

Filling the “arctic wolf” and “sled dog” niches, dolfrosts have a lot of personality and love to make themselves known to others when they aren’t hunting for food. Valued by the tundra folk for their hardiness and ability to run atop the snow, they’ve been an integral part of mountain life for ages, pulling sleds of supplies and travellers, sharing warmth from their hardy bodies, and even helping to seek out those lost in the wintery white.

While diving in drifts that exceed 10 feet at times, they consume snow to both hydrate and to melt in their burning hot gullet to spray upon breaching. The water vapor rapidly solidifies into ice that’s reinforced by chemicals in their saliva, allowing them to use the horn-like formations to push snow away and smash through patches of ice and other obstacles. When the ice breaks down, it sometimes sticks to their fleecy fur and is collected to be melted into enriched water that helps guard against malnutrition and frostbite or is added to packed snow for building emergency shelters, as it helps to keep the walls together and make them sturdier and more insulating.

They have one more evolution that is rarer but indispensable for search and rescue, but it can only be achieved by climbing the highest peak in Mogra or by using a rare Tundra Crystal.