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  "name": "Tide Dolphin",
  "aliases": [],
  "type": "character",
  "reality": "fictionalized",
  "loreStatus": "established",
  "summary": "Learns the keepers' names. Uses them to complain.",
  "traits": [
    "Pink grey skin, a thin lure on a stalk above the head, and a green glow under the chin. Pelagia has no land, so everything there carries its own light.",
    "Stays in its tank when the barriers fail. It follows Seven along the glass instead, which is somehow worse.",
    "Home: Pelagia."
  ],
  "style": [],
  "collections": [
    "starlight-menagerie"
  ],
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    "id": "starlight-dolphin-catalog-source-card-v1",
    "url": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-source-starlight-dolphin-card-v1.webp",
    "previewUrl": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-source-starlight-dolphin-card-v1-480.webp",
    "alt": "Tide Dolphin in an existing Starlight Menagerie gameplay image.",
    "caption": "Reused in-game creature reference from Starlight Menagerie. The full source frame is preserved.",
    "status": "approved",
    "version": 1,
    "sourceLabel": "Starlight Menagerie creature reference",
    "sourceUrl": "/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/dolphin-three.webp",
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    "selectedUrl": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-source-starlight-dolphin-card-v1-1200.webp",
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  "variants": [],
  "appearances": [
    {
      "title": "Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html",
      "collectionId": "starlight-menagerie"
    },
    {
      "title": "The creatures",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/creatures.html",
      "description": "Named in this published page."
    },
    {
      "title": "The map of Doorly Orbital",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/map.html",
      "description": "Named in this published page."
    }
  ],
  "relationships": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "starlight-menagerie-encyclopedia",
      "title": "Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html"
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-30",
      "text": "Added from the named source to the Field Guide."
    }
  ],
  "spoilers": [],
  "questions": [
    "Inspired by Bottlenose dolphin; the guide describes its game depiction."
  ],
  "references": [
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      "id": "starlight-dolphin-source-1",
      "kind": "scene",
      "url": "/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/dolphin-three.webp",
      "previewUrl": "/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/dolphin-three.webp",
      "alt": "Tide Dolphin in the Starlight Menagerie.",
      "caption": "Tide Dolphin in the Starlight Menagerie.",
      "status": "approved",
      "version": 1,
      "sourceLabel": "Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia",
      "sourceUrl": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html",
      "sha256": "044837127d90972220daf3be4547744ada4ef802f3fdb09105c35e198d66c811"
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  "revision": 1,
  "updated": "2026-10-30"
}