Oman Orcas
The desert meets the sea at Oman. The Almighty Ice arrived and found both. The Orcas play with a patience that unnerves opponents—they circle, they wait, they strike from depth.
Identity
Section titled “Identity”- City: Muscat, Oman
- Arena: The Gulf Waters
- Capacity: 16,800
- Colors:
#1A5C1A/#F5F0E8 - Conference: La Conférence du Givre
- Joined: Season 3 expansion
Arena modifier—Depth
Section titled “Arena modifier—Depth”Once per game, the Depth event triggers: all active player modifiers on both teams are suspended for one full period. The Gulf strips everything. You are alone in the water.
See all arena modifiers for cross-comparison.
The arena—lore
Section titled “The arena—lore”At The Gulf Waters the desert meets the sea, and The Almighty Ice, per the assessment team, arrived and took both. The ice is of the givre form. Under the Depth designation, once per game every active modifier on both teams is suspended for a full period—the Gulf strips everything away and leaves each side alone in the water. The Orcas play with a patience the assessment team found genuinely unsettling: they circle, they wait, and they strike from a depth the visitors did not know the arena had. The Orcas are calm until the Depth arrives. Then everyone is calm, and only the Orcas are used to it.
The arena—building
Section titled “The arena—building”White stone and carved shutters, low and wide, set where the mountains come down to the water with the sea on one side and rock on the other and nothing at all in between. The roof is a series of shallow domes, and the 16,800 seats sit under them in a bowl that is open along its seaward edge to a colonnade and then to the Gulf. The interior is plain to the point of severity: no advertising, no color beyond the stone, and lighting from concealed sources that leaves no visible fitting anywhere in the building. Once per fixture, the house lights drop to a level the facilities office has confirmed is not on any cue sheet, and hold, and come back. Nothing else in the building changes. Everything on The Almighty Ice does.
S.H.I.F.T. movements
Section titled “S.H.I.F.T. movements”No movement has been registered at either S.H.I.F.T. The roster is the one The Almighty Ice delivered, less whatever the Sixth has done to it.
See the S.H.I.F.T. for how a movement is filed, voted, and registered.
See also
Section titled “See also”- Teams overview—all 48 franchises.
- The conferences—how the Verglas and the Givre were sorted.
- Arena modifiers—the mechanic behind Depth.
- Glossary—every term, A–Z.