2026-01-16
•3 min read
sea monsters
monsters and myths
Charybdis: The Void
She is not a beast you can fight. She is a natural disaster with a name. Charybdis is the whirlpool that drinks the sea, inescapable and hungry.
greek-mythologysea-monstersodyssey+3
monsters and myths
Cipactli: The Earth Monster
In the beginning, there was only the ocean and the monster. Cipactli was a primordial leviathan—part crocodile, part toad, part hunger. The earth we walk on is made of her bones.
2026-01-16
•2 min read
aztec-mythologycreation-mythssea-monsters+2
monsters and myths
Con Rit: The Centipede of the Sea
Deep in the waters of Vietnam, there is a horror that is more armor than flesh. The Con Rit is a sea serpent, but not of the serpentine kind. It is a sixty-foot armored centipede that rings like metal when it moves.
2026-01-16
•2 min read
vietnamese-folkloresea-monsterscryptids+2
monsters and myths
Jormungandr: The World Serpent
### The Ouroboros of the North **Jormungandr** (The Great Monster) is the physical definition of the world's edge. He is the middle child of Loki, c...
2026-01-16
•2 min read
norse-mythologythorsea-monsters+2
monsters and myths
Kraken: The Living Island
It is the monster at the end of the map. A cephalopod of such colossal size that sailors mistake its back for an island. When it dives, it creates a whirlpool that swallows ships whole.
2026-01-16
•2 min read
norse-mythologysea-monsterssailors+2
monsters and myths
Nian: The Lunar Beast
He sleeps at the bottom of the sea for 364 days. But on the last night of the lunar year, the Nian rises. He comes for food, for destruction, and for children.
2026-01-16
•2 min read
chinese-mythologylunar-new-yearsea-monsters+2
monsters and myths
Leviathan: The Serpent of the Deep
A colossal sea serpent of the abyss, the Leviathan is the embodiment of chaos and the untamable power of the ocean.
2024-06-07
•3 min read
apex-predatorssea-monsterschaos-beasts+1