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Santhidyn are rarely seen by sailors, and even more rarely by scholars. A naturalist named [[Naladan]] spent her entire career chasing santhidyn and never got a good look at one. Sightings are so infrequent that there is a great deal of disagreement about their nature, and even their existence. Some corpses have washed ashore, but they are generally badly decomposed and not useful for study.{{book ref|sa2|1}}
 
[[Shallan Davar]] and the crew of the ''[[Wind's Pleasure]]'' encountered a santhid in [[Longbrow's Straits]] in in {{Rosharan date|1173}}. Shallan was determined to observe the creature underwater, and ordered the crew to tie some ropes around her and lower her over the gunwale down to the water, against [[Yalb]] and [[Tozbek]]'s better judgment. Shallan was amazed at the santhid's massive, majestic body and the many fish and [[spren]] surrounding it.{{book ref|sa2|1}} She was ecstatic after emerging from the water and made a number of sketches of the great animal.{{book ref|sa2|6}}
 
When the ''Wind's Pleasure'' later sank off the coast of the [[Frostlands]], Shallan managed to survive; she made landfall near the [[Shallow Crypts]].{{map ref|Frostlands|the Frostlands}} When she woke up, she did not remember what had happened, but she saw a santhid leaving the area. She believed that it was the same santhid she had encountered in Longbrow's Straits, even though she had since traveled a significant distance without seeing it again. She assumed that the santhid had saved her, and speculated about its level of intelligence.{{book ref|sa2|11}} She lost her original drawings during the sinking, but later recreated some of them.{{book ref|sa2|17}}
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