Kraken

### Bestiary Description

A terrifying sea monster with a gigantic body and countless tentacles. Words were that it was capable of destroying a mega ship in seconds.

## Drops

### Skill Fragments

  Kraken's Tissue Sample  (Tentacles of the Deep Skill)

### Fabled Article

None

The Kraken is the boss at the end of the Kraken's Altar scene. As the Lord of the Seas, the Vikings make sacrifices to it often as to appease it and give them safe travels overseas. It has the appearance of a massive green octopus.

## Attack pattern

The bossfight is held on a toughly circular ring of ice, considerably smaller than all other boss rooms. The Kraken is at the top of the octogon, and the player can hit it by standing there. The Kraken is immune to all control effects and stun, as well as the slowing effect from failed stun. The Kraken can attack the player somewhat indirectly from that position, using its tentacles. It has this set of moves it can use to attack the player:

* **Egg Barrage:** The Kraken shoots out a large number of small green circlular eggs that fall in the arena. The player will take very small amounts of damage and no stun if they touch these eggs while they're being shot out or when they're on the ground. The eggs disappear after a short amount of time.
* **Suction Cups:** The Kraken attacks the player beneath their position, shown by a small reticle. A suction cup comes out through the ice a moment afterwards, and if the player touches it, they're stunned for a few seconds.
* **Puncture Icy Pond:** A large reticle appears beneath the player, and moments afterwards, a tentacle smashes through, breaking the ice and dealing the player sizeable damage. The tentacle will stay in its position for 5 seconds after the move is used, and it can take a small amount of damage before going back into the water. If the tentacle is "killed", Kraken takes 200 damage.
* **Shatter Frozen Seas:** After a warning in the shape of arrows, the Kraken smashes the stage with a tentacle, which causes a massive shockwave to cross the whole mid-section of the octogon, dealing the player massive amounts of damage as they get dragged all the way to the bottom of the screen.
* **Sink Hostile Wolfship:** The screen zooms out as the Kraken sends a ship flying into the arena, where it deals moderate damage to a large area around it, and spawns a viking enemy to attack the player. This enemy can attack the boss and take damage from boss attacks.

The boss is mostly quite easy. Its only strong, and hence dangerous attacks are heavily telegraphed and can be avoided with ease paying even slight amounts of attention. It has a lot of health, though, and can be punishing if you do manage to mess up. In general, it will not be much of a problem.

## Real Mirage

* The boss now has ~185 health bars
* Suction Cups spawns many more suction cups
* Sink Hostile Wolfship spawns two vikings
* When going beneath certain health thresholds, the Kraken goes beneath the sea and becomes immune for a while. In the meantime, it uses Shatter Frozen Seas repeatedly, up to 4 times, while it tracks the player with many smaller Puncture Icy Ponds that cannot be damaged. The attack triggers 3 times, and the third it will do one more shockwave.

The boss becomes a lot more dangerous in Real Mirage, as it now has a move that can much more easily hit the player. Its accuracy has always been its major issue, and having it improved upon makes the boss pose a much larger threat. Still, it becomes no less predictable, and the Real Mirage damage increase won't matter if you're able to simply not get hit.