Sand Kraken

The Sand Kraken is one of the few creatures on Alcheryos that bear the title of 'Worldbane'. Beast doesn't quite describe these abominations, nothing truly does.

Each is a highly unique, and extremely distinctive monster. Sand krakens are well known for being dormant most of the time, resting at the bottom of the sands of the wastelands, or even tunneling into the bedrock. That is mainly because they are so large and powerful that very few targets are worth the energy to wake up and attack.

This means that sand krakens are rarely encountered, and almost never considered a threat to wasteland caravans or travelers. They are, however, a massive danger to armies and fleets crossing the wasteland...or cities being established on the frontier. Every few decades or so a sand kraken will awaken and attack a wasteland border city and attempt to consume it to feed. It does not do so for the nutritional value of the inhabitants -all evidence points towards sand krakens being able to process minerals out of the very ground, and eating soil is more than enough for their biological needs-, but for their essence and mana.

This makes sand krakens one of the most hated monsters in wasteland border areas, and one of the most famous. This is not only due to their habits and sheer size, but also how dangerous they are.

The appearance of sand krakens varies, but their main, heavily armored body usually range from 15 to 300 meters long, alongside tentacles which can stretch to 3 times that length, with enough strength to crush Tarkian tanks or rip Erisian airships to shreds. But their lethality comes from one, single fact : all sand krakens can use magic. Moreover, they can use extremely powerful spells, and sometimes multiple at the same time for the more powerful specimens, much like a powerful dragon.

The sand krakens, also like dragons, come with an older, more evolved variant. The sand leviathan. There is...No real metric for these creatures, other than 'can kill an army'. Only a handful are believed to be alive, and all seemed to have come to be from the wars of the Great Night, as some abominable weapon created by the madmen that brought Alcheryos to ruin, with implants and ancient technology buried in their swollen, old flesh. These creatures are most definitely sapient, and although no official contact has been made, it is believed that several organizations have managed to establish dialogue with these incredibly old beings, although what they said, if they ever did exchange anything, is unknown. Only a few have ever been slain, one by the Custodians of the Flames and the others at great effort by the WMC, the Orlov Empire and the Eris Empire respectively.