[HoneyBadger]

If you're still interested, Foodstamp, I finally figured out a workable (and fairly thematic) way for Haida to get a grey whale Pretender: They could start with an immobile whale totem-I believe you're already using totem poles as Pretenders?-that then has a waterform that transforms it into a grey whale SC. It would have to be teleported, ofcourse, but that would be a useful balance against a relatively powerful SC chassis. On land, with access to water/astral paths, it could still teleport around and cast spells in relative safety-immobile Pretenders are difficult to destroy-but then, in the water, it would come into it's own.