Golden Sea Monster

### Description

Name one pirate who's not in it for treasures? Why else would one forsake everything for gold just to fill up the empty void in their heart?

## Other Details

### Series

* Call of the Abyss I
* Season 1 Essence 5
* Season 1 Essence 6

### Date Released

* June 28th 2018 (CN)
* April 30th 2019 (GL)

## Obtaining

### Obtained by

* Call of the Abyss I Abyss Treasure (CN)
* "Pirate Adventure" Abyss Treasure (GL)

**Golden Sea Monster** is a Limited S-Tier Costume for the Hell Ember, Leo Beck. Originally unavailable in the Global Servers, it was introduced alongside other Call of the Abyss I rewards during the Call of the Abyss II Finals, in Season 5, as part of the "Pirate Adventure" Abyss Treasure, from April 30th to May 23rd 2019.

On the Chinese Server, it was originally introduced during Call of the Abyss I as part of its Abyss Treasure, during the server's ongoing Season 2.

It is connected to the lore of Season 1 Essence 5 and Essence 6.

## Appearance

### **Physical**

When equipped, Leo's skin assumes a dark brownish purple color, while his eyes appear dark with glowing purple irises. Various dark and gold tentacles grow out of his body: on his face, where they resemble a beard and mustache, on his back, where they're entangled with a golden ship's helm that sticks out of his body, and a pair on each of his arms.

### **Outfit**

Leo wears a golden tricorn hat on his head, with a metallic skull-shaped decoration on the front and a small copper anchor tied to its back. He wears an unbuttoned golden coat, with several seamed tears on its surface, and a leather bandolier over it, decorated by ornamental patterns and a silver buckle with yellow fangs. Underneath the coat he wears a white and a dark brown shirt.

On Leo's hands are large brown gloves with golden engravings on the edges and back of the hand, and around his waist is a decorated leather belt, with a small pouch hanging from the side and a silver buckle, both adorned with a yellow logo. He wears dark brown pants on his legs and leather ornate boots at his feet.

### **Weapon**

Leo's shark mace is replaced by an oversized sickle-shaped black hook, with various golden dents and large spikes sticking out of it, and monstrous jaws carved on its end.

### **Special Effects**

Leo's eyes shine with a faint purple light, and from his upper body several small, vertical yellow glows are constantly emitted.

## **Trivia**

* The costume seems to be heavily inspired by the design of Davy Jones, a pirate captain with characteristic octopus tentacles making up his facial features, recurring character from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie franchise.
* The costume's description was slightly altered to its current wording at an unknown date. The original description used to read: "Which pirate doesn't adventure for the chance to claim countless treasure? Forsaking everything for the sake of gold, filling the empty void in their heart."
* A different version of this costume, Pirate Captain, was also available from Call of the Abyss I, but is of A-Tier rarity rather than S-tier, and differs from it in color scheme and texture details.
	+ Textures for a third and unused version of this costume is still present in the game files. It had bluish-grey skin and tentacles, and a red coat and pants. A related card artwork is also present in the files, implying the scrapped design was cut relatively late in COA I's development.
* His hook weapon is very similar, in size, shape and concept, to Hell Ember's old weapon, the bone sickle.
* There seems to be a small inconsistency between the in-game model of the costume and the artwork on the selection card. In the former, the eyes emit a purple light, while in the artwork, they emit a golden glow instead.
* Golden Sea Monster is mentioned in Pirate Spotter's and Shipbuilder's descriptions, both costumes related to the lore of Call of the Abyss I.
* Some time in early Season 29 both Golden Sea Monster and Pirate Captain were updated to have a limited tag on their icon, which they had previously lacked since release.

## Gallery

* In-Game
* Official Art
* Development
* Additional Appearances

### Appearance Menu

Golden Sea Monster, as seen in the appearance decoration menuThe costume's left side viewThe costume's back viewThe costume's right side viewIntroductory animation of Golden Sea MonsterThe costume's idling animationThe costume's secondary animation
### Model Render

Render of the in-game model, front view. Renders by: potasyumsiyenurRender of the in-game model, back viewCloseup of the head model, front viewCloseup of the head model, back viewRender of the sickle

### Icon & Concept Art

Golden Sea Monster's card artworkConcept art of Golden Sea Monster (Twitter)Concept art from the official Identity V Chinese Reference BookConcept art from the official Identity V Japanese Reference BookConcept art, depicting detailsConcept art, depicting unused designs
### Promotional

Artwork for the costume published by the official Korean accounts (Facebook)Golden Sea Monster on a promotional poster
### Merchandise

Call of the Abyss I Rubber Keychain Merchandise (Weibo)

### Scrapped Content

Unused design's card artwork. The textures for this scrapped color scheme can still be found in the game filesRender of the unused design for Pirate captain, sporting red clothes and bluish-grey skin and tentacles. Renders by: potasyumsiyenurBack view of the unused designClose up, front viewClose up, waist and legsClose up, head