Kraken

Name	Kraken
Race	Monster
Type	Aquatic
Faction	Krakenites
Premiere	Desideratum: Blood Bonds
Relative(s)	None Applicable

In myth, the kraken (/ˈkrɑːkən/) is a legendary cephalopod-like sea monster of gigantic size in Scandinavian folklore. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors. While all that may be true, in reality krakens are far more intelligent, ancient, and destructive. Long before the Age of Myths, long before even humanity existed, kraken swam the seas. Vast in size, even in ancient times, they could devour even megalodons. Nothing was safe. At this same time in the Early Miocene period, primitive humanoids were developing a civilization. Just as humanity would later do on land, these krakenites did so below. They came to worship the massive krakens as gods with both having the power to communicate telepathically.

As they developed a connection, it soon became that the krakens, with their huge brains and brawn, were to rule over the humanoids. The krakenites lost themselves into the minds of their gods and continued to build a civilization around them for millions of years. Then in the Age of Myths, when the gods of man, beings not of the corporeal world as the krakens were, came onto the Earth, war began under the waves. As mankind conceptualized gods of the sea, these beings could swim from elemental water dimensions into the Physical World. They fought the krakens and the krakenites. Eventually only a handful of krakens remained and they fled to the darkest, deepest parts of the ocean to sleep and recover from battle. Guarded by the last pockets of krakenites, these monsters dreamed of the day that they could take back the oceans and force the air breathers on land into submission.

Recently, as humanity has caused the Earth’s climate to change exponentially quickly, warmer waters are reaching lower depths and the kraken stir. When they awaken, they swim through the sea, devouring as much life as they can. One such kraken awoke off the coast of Oregon. When the Night Stalkers, Absinthe Van Gothen and Kendra Tallulah, were embarking to Sauvie Island, the kraken smelled and sensed the Blood Suit made of the blood of Vlad Țepeș. It tried to unsuccessfully devour Abby and the heroine, luckily, had magic bombs on hand. Releasing several, they sank into the water and into the massive maw of the beast. They exploded, destroying the kraken from within and it died, sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Most of the nearby krakenites fled in terror from seeing a god destroyed. A sea god, Takuaka, who witnessed the spectacle, blessed Absinthe for the deed.