Zaratan

Zaratan is a Ginormous elder turtle creature that first appeared in The Autistic Hero 2: Worlds Clashing. It is an entity that has been around since the beginning of the split of Pangaea. It was formed by the planet Itself and is an animal that has the power to preserve fossils with its magic. It was a creature that also sponsored the later creation of the Archelon and much later the Galapagos Tortoise because of its influence. It in the main story is secretly a hidden continent island in the center of the bermuda triangle who sunk ships and took down planes because at the time it was under the influence humans were its enemy until the win of 2030. Zaratan Was released from its Mind Slavery in 4051 after Shangoso was directed to it after being saved from Charybdis and Shangoso proceeded to beat the virus out of it. Zaratan was able to regain its mind and began to lift the curse of the bermuda triangle up. This allowed entities such as the Ningen and Mermaids which originally were used to cause humanity's extinction. It also blessed Xenith Stephenson with 2 new leviathan attacks.

## Appearance

Zaratan is a massive turtle creature that resembles an Alligator Snapping Turtle but it is made of tectonics and rocks. It is an elemental far older than the Rock Titan from greek mythology. This Being has colored bright brown above and below is dark grey colored like granite and its arms and legs are dark brown with brown chiseled bedrock as its scales. Its shell on the top has almost an entire ecosystem on top of it which consists of a tropical rain forest with many mysterious cryptids laying their eggs on it as humans can't get to them and test them. Zaratan's shell itself is 4,028 square miles and its whole body length of 5,000 miles long but it is barely seen in the fog and mist of the bermuda triangle.

## History

Zaratan was created after Pangaea the supercontinent split apart from tectonic splitting and was given the memory of the previous version of itself and how it was killed by the humans of the 39 trillionth universe. This distraught the turtle creature so it used its blessed energy to create what we would call Cryptids to be effective at killing humans. These included entities like The Krakens and El Diable Negro shark. Zaratan made its home in the center of the bermuda triangle and up until 2030 was expecting to die. however when it didn't die it peaked its head out of the boat and plane infested center and began to investigate causing a small earthquake. Zaratan discovered that Humanity had changed. It released an energy wave which only cryptids could hear and they understood their war against humanity was over and thus they began living carefree lives as regular animals. That was until it got possessed. in 4051 it reawakened and began to cause earthquakes until Shangoso under the lead of Xenith Stephenson killed charybdis which alerted Shangoso to the Zaratan which lead them to fight. Zaratan lost after a strike to the face and it returned to normal. Zaratan then blessed Xenith with 2 leviathan attacks. Interestingly looking under the Zaratan one can discover a Secret Realm called Cryptidia which is the biome dimension where the Cryptids came and go from. It lays on top of it to keep them in while also projecting the portal onto it's back and this is how cryptids can get into our world with selective choosing.

## Abilities

Ecosystem Creation: Zaratan's shell was able to create its own life on the back of it and even has its own line of evolution to go with it.

Immortality: Zaratan's memories are older than its body implying it much like the earth is in fact immortal mentally.

Continental Composition: Zaratan isn't an organism but rather a rock given life with snapping turtle features.

Super Earth Fangs: The Zaratan can bite with its bedrock teeth so fast and so strong that it can snip through any metal and can also be used to cause deafening shockwaves and tsunamis.

Amphibiousness: Zaratan can breathe eternally underwater without having to come up for air.

Reflective Carapace: Projectiles are immediately reflected upon hitting its body including magical ones.

Earthquake: Zaratan can create a seismic earthquake with a single snap of its mouth.

Cursed Waters: Zaratan managed to curse the bermuda triangle so man made vessels always crashed.

## Trivia

Zaratan is based off of the myth of zaratan.