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Badass Shark Teeth Weapons Hint at Shadow Diversity
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
When life sticks you on an isolated island surrounded by shark-infested waters, make utterly badass weapons out of shark teeth.
This is what the people of the Pacific Gilbert Islands have been doing for centuries. Sharks are a central part of their lives. Many social customs and taboos revolve around the finer points of shark-hunting. Young boys go through initiation rites where they kneel on a beach, looking towards a rising sun and slice their hairlines open with shark teeth, letting the blood run into their eyes until sunset. And with no metal around, they used shark teeth to adorn their weapons.
A shark is a fast, electric-sensing torpedo, whose business end holds two conveyor