Kraken

A Kraken is an Auris Bilanx organism that has traits similar to cephalopods, cetaceans and crustaceans. Also called the devils fish, despite having no confirmed demonic inheritance. 
== Description ==
Their body resembles a blue whale, with tentacles that hide enormous claws (that deploy like mantis shrimps) at the front, the body is armored like a lobster. This disparate appearance interrogates whether the creature is a hybrid.
Their tentacles have retractable claws.
Their skin is heather colored (purplish-pink), and when nearby, creates mist. 
Its tentacles are large enough to be able to pull entire ships under the water and destroy coastal cities with relative ease. The creature possesses endurance to match its strength. In addition to its tentacles, it was also armed with a gaping maw full of sharp teeth. 
== Fishing for kraken ==
Saying its name can summon the creature.
Crying chests attract it. Making the beast swallow it is a good way to get rid of it. 
The Kraken could be summoned from aboard ships, with the use of a giant capstan hammer that sent a shock wave through the ocean that served as a call to the creature.
== Reproduction ==
Few kraken can exist at a time, if too many die, a random cephalopod, crab  or whale will begin aggressively consuming prey and growing until reaching the size of and taking on features of a kraken, creating a new specimen. What triggers this is unknown.
== Titan organism ==
Like gigacetidae, they awaken to bring ecological balance, by feeding on superpredators.
== Diet ==
Krakens have a wide reaching and diverse diet. They sometimes feed on whales and ichtyosaurs, and have been observed grazing kelp forests. They mostly feed by belching. Their "belches" attract fish to the Krakens position, and fish come to the krakens mouth, where they feed on the contents of the stomach, when sufficient fish are inside, the kraken simply closes its mouth, trapping the fish to be digested. Sometimes, when food sources are scarce, the kraken will vomit, in order to feed the nearby animals. 
== Behavior ==
Krakens protect their hunting grounds, and will sink whale ships and any other ships that smell of whale, which is to say ships that use lamp oil. While an incredibly dangerous and violent animal at times, most of the deaths related to the Kraken are not attacks from the creature itself but rather the whirlpool left in its wake. 
When no predators are detected by the creature, it stays at the sea floor, constantly surrounded by innumerable small fishes, who serve as its food and are fed by it in return: its meals last three months, and another three are then needed to digest it. Once digestion is done, the kraken will defecate, its excrements nurture in the following an army of lesser fish (called a microcosmus), and for this reason, fishermen follow after its resting place. This is when the kraken will leave for the surface. During this time it stays submerged for days, then rears its head and nostrils above the surface and stays that way at least until the change of tide. During this time, known as krakens rest, it is often confused for an island.
After a full rest, the Kraken descends, and when it is 20 meters below the surface, it will shortly thereafter burst up, like a floating island, spurting water from its nostrils and making ring waves around him, which can reach many miles.
=== Kraken and the other races ===
Fishermen often take the risk of trying to fish over kraken, since the catch is so plentiful.
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