Kraken

Kraken

(Creature)

Uncommon

Gargantuan

Aquatic

Beast

Level

18

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Source: Monster Core, pg(s). 212

Krakens had the

NE

trait in Bestiary 214.

Type

Magical beast
(aquatic)

CR

18

Environment

Any ocean

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Images of krakens

Source: Bestiary, pg(s). 184

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Krakens are huge, squid-like aquatic beasts.

Appearance

A typical kraken's body can be up to 100 feet in length and weighs 4,000 pounds. In appearance, the body of a kraken resembles that of a giant squid, with a ring of tentacles surrounding a mouth connected to a central body. Two of its tentacles are longer than the rest and bear deadly hooked barbs. A kraken has very large eyes and fins that jut from the upper part of its body.

Abilities

Krakens are intelligent beings who can speak and understand Common tongues as well as the Thalassic language. They can innately harness primal magic to dominate animals, generate punishing winds, and resist energy.

Krakens can emit large clouds of poisonous black ink, and they innately alter the weather according to their moods for up to two miles around them. Their powerful arms and tentacles can constrict the air out of beings they grasp, and while swimming they can rapidly propel themselves forward hundreds of feet in seconds by producing a jet of water.

Ecology

A kraken attacks a ship on the high seas.

Krakens dwell in deep oceanic places, such as trenches, sunken ruins, or features located near thermal vents. Their lairs often contain hoarded treasures, especially scrolls and spellbooks, sources of ancient knowledge, and rare materials native to the deep ocean. They attack boats of all sizes, including some of the world's largest ships.

Krakens are deep rivals of alghollthus, which drives many to lair in sunken cities in pursuit of lost arcane knowledge.

On Golarion

In Rova 4700 AR, the eyeless bodies of thirteen krakens washed up on the Isle of Kortos. There have been reports that a mighty kraken sometimes hunts near the whirlpool of Devil's Drain between Dragon's Rib of the Ironbound Islands and the Linnorm Kingdom of Southmoor.

The Tian Xia nation of Wanshou came under the control of the kraken Zhanagorr when he quelled a devastating typhoon that hit its shores shortly after the fall of Lung Wa, naming rulership of Wanshou and its people as his price for doing so.

In the Great Beyond

Large numbers of krakens are native to the dark depths of the Plane of Water, where they have long been in conflict with the native brine dragons for dominance of the plane. Despite their intelligence and power, the krakens' lack of organization has allowed the dragons to expel them from the depths as their own power and holdings grew, forcing the krakens into the plane's lighter waters. This has forced many krakens to enter into begrudging alliances with other races, often installing themselves as advisors to faydhaan and sedacthy rulers. While the krakens find such alliances demeaning, they hope to forge the disparate genie and sedacthy nations into stable empires once again, preferably ones heavily reliant on kraken support.

References

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