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Shomalark is a [[Water]] and [[Dark]]-type [[Creo]], and one of the two forms a [[Shomal]] can grow into. A Shomal raised in the shadowed valleys and north faces of the polar range turns toward dark and becomes Shomalark.

Shomalark is the heaviest Creo of the northern ice at a full tonne, and it does almost nothing with that weight. It sleeps in a dug-out den for days at a stretch and comes out only when it needs to eat, which is the whole of its routine.

== Biology ==
Shomalark walks on all fours with its head carried low, under a shaggy coat that runs from deep violet at the shoulders to blue gray along the flanks. A heavy mane covers the neck and the top of the skull, leaving little more than the muzzle exposed. At 2.5 meters it is shorter than its sibling form but 200 kilograms heavier, and nearly all of that difference is fat.

That fat is the reason for the sleeping. Shomalark converts a single large meal into reserves with unusual efficiency and then shuts down almost completely while it lives off them, dropping its heart rate until a resting animal can be mistaken for a snowdrift. Dens are dug into packed snow on a lee slope and reused year after year, deepening with each occupation until some run several meters back into the hill.

Its eyes are large and poorly suited to daylight, so Shomalark hunts at night or under heavy overcast, taking whatever is slow enough to catch near the shore. It has no interest in confrontation and will retreat into its den rather than defend an open position, but a Shomalark cornered underground is one of the hardest Creo in the region to shift.

== Description ==
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|evocreo2 = Shomalark lazily sleeps in its den only coming out when it needs to eat.
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== Location ==
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|evocreo2_name1 = Trail 54
|evocreo2_link1 = Trail 54 (Shoru)
|evocreo2_rate1 = 13.8%
|evocreo2_note1 = Super Rare wild encounter

|evocreo2_name2 = Qima Camp
|evocreo2_rate2 = 8.2%
|evocreo2_note2 = Super Rare wild encounter

|evocreo2_name3 = North Pole
|evocreo2_rate3 = 7.8%
|evocreo2_note3 = Super Rare wild encounter
}}

== Stats ==
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== Evolution ==
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|creo_1_name = Shomalark
|creo_1_content = Evolution text for Shomalark
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