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==[[Kraken|The Kraken]]==

The Kraken is, as you've probably come to expect, a huge fuck-off aquatic tentacle monster. It is terrifying, given its massive size in a relatively-grounded and realistic campaign setting, and no one knows what the actual fuck it is, what it's doing, or why it picked the former Great Bay, now the Krakennauricht as its territory. Maybe it was one of the mounts Azrai rode across the sea, maybe it was a creature from the elemental plane of water the evil god corrupted for some inscrutable purpose, maybe it's a remnant of the old gods that predate the present batch which got its hands on a bloodgift. Either way, it's the biggest monster in the world, and it makes up for its lack of Invulnerability with both Regeneration and Great Regeneration, meaning it doesn't have to give a fuck about losing a few tentacles or an eye when it claims prizes on the open sea.

The Kraken is, atypically for one of the animalistic awnshegh but typically for krakens from other ''D&D'' settings, also a super-smart genius. Humans know little about the creature, so information about it is scarce in ''Blood Enemies'', but ''Havens of the Great Bay'' went into greater detail about it. It has enslaved the [[sahuagin]], having destroyed their civilization and using them as its minions. They worship the Kraken as the Many-Limbed God and offer it living sacrifices, plus whatever treasures they obtain from the ships they sink. Most notably, the priests of the Kraken do actually have access to [[cleric]] spells, though where and how they get the spells is unknown. For some reason, it has also forbidden the sahuagin to make themselves known to other races, leaving the Krakennauricht, and from setting foot on land, with the exception of Krakenstaur. Humans who look over the Krakenstaur sometimes see humanoid shapes in the distance, but all attempts to contact them have failed, since the sahuagin are, justifiably, much too scared of the Kraken to defy its will even if they didn't see all surface-dwellers as enemies.  Its motives are inscrutable and alien; even its sahuagin followers and slaves don't fully understand the Kraken.