The Mock Turtle is a giant friendly turtle (or turtle-like creature) who lives in the Battlespire. He is a member of the Great Turtle species and can talk. The Mock Turtle used to be a real turtle, and relates his tragic and lengthy tale. The Mock Turtle studied the obscure disciplines of the Quadriva Arithmetia. The Mock Turtle is described as ancient.
Indeed, the Mock Turtles shell can be found in ESO, and most scholars don't believe there's a Mock Turtle below the Weir Gate. They can't deny though the shell is really big.
The Mock Turtle introduces himself as a member of the rare species of Great Turtle from which is made the famous Mock Turtle Soup, the Soup of Kings. "Sit down and don't say a word until I've finished. Once," said the Mock Turtle with a deep sigh, "I was a real Turtle." The Mock Turtle relates a tragic and lengthy tale about going to school in the sea, and about his studies in the obscure disciplines of the Quadriva Arithmetia - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision -- and the courses of instruction in Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography, Drawling, Stretching, Fainting in Coils, Laughing, and Grief. At last, when it becomes clear that his story has no point, you become restless. "Oh, dear," said the Mock Turtle. "I'm afraid I've bored you. You've been so kind to listen to the maunderings of an ancient reptile...please say my name backwards where it will do the most good, accept as a token of my gratitude a product of my researches in the field of Speculative Ontology."

Most scholars dismiss tales of a massive turtle dwelling beyond the Weir Gate as pure nonsense … but this shell is really big.