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H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Feb 15, 2024 10:58 AM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 08:04 AM:

I am not sure the trident should be used for both the Whale and White Horse. It would suggest that it points in the direction in which it moves, but for black this would just be the opposit. And if you pair the flipped versions for the same type, it would look all wrong when viewed from player B. I am not unhappy with the diving-Whale image; it also suggests something that goes down, without suggesting too much that 'down' would be a direction relative to the symbol. An upside-down symbol would strongly suggest the reason for displaying it in an unnatural way is that you want to indicate a direction with it.

I 'parked' the dot near the Axe for copy-pasting it onto pieces that needed it; the Axe is not used in the set. But the idea was indeed to remove it from the final set. I had not noticed the stray pixels near the Fire Demon.