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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8578620" data-attributes="member: 57383">Hmm, I think we should add Abyssal to that list.So maybe "The Kraken understands Common, Abyssal and Aquan but never speaks."I vaguely recall us discussing it, I believe it went something like this:A regular 3E Kraken has 60-foot long tentacles and a body 30 feet long according to its Monster Manual description. That's a total of 90 feet, which matches an AD&D Kraken's 90+ ft. total length.The Awnshegh Kraken is given a 110 ft. total length. If we subtract the 60-foot long arms from that we get a body 50 feet long, which matches the Space we gave our conversion.Works for me!Right, I'll have a stab at it.I'll cadge some features (like the mouth shape) from the illustration in Blood Enemies.This creature resembles a titanic reddish-pink octopus. Its globular body is crowned by two baleful eyes above a mass of writhing arms from which protrude a pair of elongated tentacles that end in leafshaped claspers. In the midst of its limbs yawns a horrible lamprey like mouth, a vast pit lined with ring upon ring of sharklike triangular teeth.The Awnshegh known as The Kraken is a truly enormous creature. While it shares many features with normal krakens, it is uncertain whether it is truly related to them. Some sources claim it's an monstrosity from some other plane such as the Abyss, the Elemental Plane of Water, or even the Far Realm. The Kraken is a solitary creature who spends most of its time lurking in the ocean's depth, surfacing occasionally to feed on passing ships and whales. It is exceedingly territorial and always emerges to attack intruders who venture too close to its home.While the Kraken is extraordinarily intelligent it is not quite as smart as a normal Kraken, and its mind is so alien and vicious that it normal acts as if it were nothing but a bloodthirsty animal. It is so feared by local islanders that some worship it as a god in the hope of propitiating its wrath. However, the Kraken displays no interest in worshipers or slaves. It has no air-filled caverns in its lair like those standard krakens often imprison humanoid servants from the surface in.The beast's globular body is approximately 50 feet across. Its six shorted arms are about 60 feet long; the remaining two tentacles are 90 feet long. All eight limbs are lined with viciously barbed suckers.The Kraken understands Common, Abyssal and Aquan but never speaks.</blockquote>

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