Shassi
The Primeval Kraken
Shassi is an ancient kraken, having been in Earhion long before the first brick was set on Sintava, before the caverns of Danteldindar collapsed, and even before the western waters were twisted into the unending, raging storm that they are now. According to multiple accounts, from Triton records to the oral stories of the Mer, Shassi arrived in Earhion during the Maelstrom, mere days after it began, and has remained ever since.
Divine Domains
Storm, Sea, Chaos, Malice
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A black eye ringed by six golden thorns
Physical Description
Body Features
She is over eight hundred feet long, with a dragon-like head surrounded by elaborate dozen-meter long frills. Six massive finger-like protrusions, each with two joints, rest behind her head frills. Her torso is also dragon-like, covered in spiny scales, with two massive paw-like fins on the upper part. Her four-hundred-foot-long tail resembles that of a whale, though still covered in scales, and nearly fifty two-hundred-meter-long tentacles, with a texture like shark's skin, ring her hips. Ten of her tentacles are fifty feet longer than the rest, and possess yard-long thorns along their insides.
Facial Features
Her eyes are massive, black holes, and her mouth has eight rows of jagged teeth. Her face vaguely resembles a dragon, with spiny bronze-green scales and a more beak-like maw than a dragon's. She could easily swallow a frigate whole without issue, and her forked tongue is nearly twenty feet long.
Special abilities
She controls the weather almost without conscious effort, but is able to cause bolts of lightning to strike where she wishes and can influence the direction of the tides and the strength of the raging storm that follows her.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Shassi remained mostly dormant for most of her life prior to the Maelstrom, and thus does not actually know where she lived, as she only woke to scavenge food from the bottom of the ocean. About a week before the Maelstrom, she somehow found her way into the Fliptide, and mere days into the catastrophe, she entered Earhion through the Sea of Blood and tore a swath of destruction from the Sea of Blood all the way to the Isle of Dread, possibly collapsing Danteldindar's cavern in the process. When the Maelstrom ended, she fell dormant, exhausted, and only shifted every decade or so, eventually making her way to a cavern beneath Kalana.
Intellectual Characteristics
In her few interactions with others, usually through attempts to kill her, she has proven incredibly good at predicting others and at discerning the fastest and most brutal way to put down a platoon of soldiers, pirate crew, or other group of enemies
Morality & Philosophy
Like most krakens, her morality is indiscernible and most simply assume her to be more of an unintelligent creature of chaos and destruction. However, there are a select few who know she is anything but.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Shassi desires to gain power, through gaining followers and through causing widespread devastation
Divine Classification
Demigod
Religions
Alignment
Neutral Evil
Species
Church/Cult
Honorary & Occupational Titles
The Primeval Kraken; the Maw that Watches
Birthplace
Unknown plane; possibly the Elemental Plane of Water
Children
Current Residence
A vast cave system beneath Kalana
Gender
X
Eyes
Black, with a strange sheen like an oil slick, almost four meters in diameter
Height
882 feet
Weight
52,000 tons
Quotes & Catchphrases
I am older than every grain of sand in this ocean. I am older than the stories you tell of gods in the sky, older than most of the gods themselves. I predate history itself. You do not get to know what I want.
Aligned Organization
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