Kraken

The Kraken is a gigantic sea animal, responsible of the disappearance of many ships and pirates. It lives at the bottom of the black sea, absent from all life surrounding Earth going out to the surface to destroy as many ships as it can without any mercy to let them live to tell the story, except for one man who now seeks revenge against the kraken for ruining his life.
The origins of the Kraken remain unknown to the time, it is believed that at the end, its streak was ended since the sudden disappearances were now caused by other already common and well-known events and incidents rather than being sink by the Squid Devil. Something that also make this animal or creature a very stron adversary was the characteristic of walking through Earth as it didn't only attack in water, but sometimes when nobody was around its area, it would go to the nearest land to attack and eat all life it could find.
==About==
The Kraken is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, etymologically similar to a cephalopod, believed to appear between Norway and Iceland. The legend may have originated from sightings of giant squid, which can grow up to 12-15 meters in length. The kraken was first described in 1700 by Francesco Negri and later by Hans Egede, who equated it with the hafgufa of medieval lore. The first description of the creature is usually credited to Danish bishop Pontoppidan (1753), who described the kraken as an octopus of tremendous size and had a reputation for pulling down ships. French malacologist Denys-Montfort is known for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of gigantic octopuses.
The kraken, a massive, many-horned fish, was first described by Italian writer Negri in Viaggio settentrionale. It was later compared to the Icelanders' hafgufa, a whale. Erik Pontoppidan popularized the kraken, claiming it was multiple-armed and believed it to be a giant sea-crab, starfish, or octopus. Pontoppidan is considered the first source on kraken available in the German language. Denys-Montfort published on two giants, the "colossal octopus" and the "kraken octopod," and Finnur Jónsson identified the kraken as an inkfish.
Kraken, also known as horven, is a legendary sea monster in Norwegian sailor folklore. It is believed that when fishermen row out from the coast, they may encounter a plummet bottom at 20-30 fathoms, where abundant cod and lings shoals are present. The kraken forms an artificial elevation and attracts fish. If the kraken rises, fishermen must row away, and the creature lifts its upper part above the water, appearing as a collection of skerries covered in seaweed-like growths. The kraken sinks, and fishermen must avoid the suction vortex.
The great man-killing octopus entered French fiction when novelist Victor Hugo (1866) introduced the pieuvre octopus of Guernsey lore, which he identified with the kraken of legend. This led to Jules Verne's depiction of the kraken, although Verne did not distinguish between squid and octopus. Linnaeus may have indirectly written about the kraken, writing about the Microcosmus genus. Subsequent authors have referred to Linnaeus's writing, Bartholin's cetus called hafgufa, and Paullini's monstrum marinum as "krakens," but the claim that Linnaeus used the word "kraken" in the margin of a later edition of Systema Naturae has not been confirmed.
The English word "kraken" (sea monster) is derived from Norwegian kraken or krakjen, which are the definite forms of krake ("the krake"). The root meaning of krake is "malformed or overgrown, crooked tree". It originates from Old Norse kraki, which is related to Old Norse krókr, meaning "hook" or "crook". The Swedish dictionary SAOB gives the same description for the word in Swedish, confirming the lead krak as a diminutive form of krok, Norwegian and Swedish for 'hook/crook'. Over time, "krake" has come to mean any severed tree stem or trunk with crooked outgrowths, giving name to objects and tools based on such. Primitive anchors and drags made from severed spruce tops or branchy bush trunks outfitted with a stone sinker are known as krake, krabbe in Norwegian or krabba in Swedish (lit. 'crab'). Old style Scandinavian drag (grapnel anchor) made from the top of a tree, historically known as krake or krabbe in the Scandinavian languages, is probably the root for the naming of the mythological monster.
Is a Casual Narrative Entity (algorithms representing an idea, using an avatar to be easily perceived for physical beings), which is that of fear. Even though Kraken is a Lesser Idea and seems to be the one causing fear, its fear is way worse than her expressions, not being able to describe it and resembling a expressionless face while unconsciously hurting everyone making her look like the one making fear, instead of representing it.
==Background==
===First Appearance===
In The Golden Age of piracy between the 17th and early 18th centuries, highlighting the ongoing history of theft and theft, people were recently disappearing alongside their ships with no clue of where they could be, an incredible amount of gold wasted at the bottom of the ocean with no way of founding them. The location were these disappearances were common was around the Black Sea and the Red Sea. Now, the Black Sea was not the one that everyone knows, this one was an extensive ink stain floating in the sea, its name literally being the Black Sea, the Red Sea on the other hand, was a curse to find since its forces were so powerful being able to sink ships in seconds, a total nightmare already now knowing that the ship-sinking creature allies itself with the Red Sea.
Now everyone knew about the sinking squid that that took the ships to the bottom of the sea, to the pits of the ocean, where no one would see them again, gaining some names like: Sinking Devil, Squid Devil, Kraken as its main presentative name, Ship-Sinking Creature, Dreaded Squid and The Deadman Swiming, the las one was given due to the fact that no one could escape the attacks of the creature.
===Downfall of the Atlantis===
The Kraken was a conscious being that just swims everywhere without a path to follow. In one of the many unconscious adventures of this creature she clashed with a gigantic statue causing it to fall. Some humanoid being with a fish-like body was on his throne, when suddenly a earthquake happened making the whole underworld to shake wich baffled the king. There was a whole city in there with these humanoids with fish-like bodies all over the place inhabiting the place. Kraken didn't show any care of what happened since it was just an object, she still showed some interest of the structure, but then sensed some beings looking down at her, threatening her existence because of her destroying the statue.
==Some facts==
*Tentacles can give a very strong punch.
*Is proved to be a Hivemind, having a very high level of thinking and reasoning.
*Can play various striking sounds to trick their victims, which they do for fun.
*Is so big, that it could potentially be some of the servants of the Leviathan.
*Is aware of its surroundings, even more than the modern humans to this day.
*Sometimes, It becomes extremely mysterious that it is even impossible to find it.
*It is theorized that he could continue to exist even today, since he was very invulnerable and both his mental and survival capacity were very high, in addition to never being affected by the cannonballs of those times.
Category:Animal
Category:Mythology
Category:Creatures
Category:Narrative
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