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Famed in heraldry, hippocampi are the steeds of the sea.  Most encounters with them will therefore usually be encounters with their riders as well.

Good-hearted does not equal welcoming.  The key to winning an audience with a triton tribune is to participate in the annual roundup of the wild hippocampus mustangs off the Plymouth Shelf.

Polar hippocampi can be quite loyal.  The Inu tribes of the North are human, not even gillmen, yet as soon as the pack ice melts their hippocampi steeds return to take them hunting, bearing their harpoon-wielding riders safely above the frigid arctic waters.

The rare giant hippocampi often have adaptations appropriate to the darker depths in which they dwell—bioluminescent orbs, razor-sharp, spines, expandable jaws, and so forth.  Most are wild, and those few that have been domesticated are the property of ceratioidi crime families, who jealously guard the secrets of their breeding.

—Pathfinder Bestiary 2 155

By the way, yes, I’m back from vacation—hi!—and yes, the hill giant entry has been updated in full.

Hippocampi are found in the nation of Frunsim. The marine cavalry of that nation is formidable, protecting coastal communities from those threats that skip the attention of ocean giants. Sea dragons are fond of them, often keeping favored herds within their domiciles to cavort with when not attending to naval matters.