Kraken of Keelhaul Falls

At the tiered waterfalls where the river meets the sea hundreds of pirate crews gather in the bones of old shipwrecks. connected by rotting rigging and swaying rope bridges. Here no navy would ever dare sail, but still they live in fear of the kraken who sleeps below the bay.

“Keelhaul Falls is a den of horrors. Thousands of ships, more sailing in each day. Murderers, Monsters, and Pirates all living among each other in a bandit camp that grew unchecked to become its own terrible city. Its small wonder the bay is the nesting ground of the Kraken. A fitting throne for the king of horrors” 

- Ida Holly, Regarding Triton and the Western Sea.

The Pirate Kings tout that the Kraken never strikes from it’s nest in the bay because they keep it so happy and fed with the sinking of merchant and Imperial ships. They rest easy and drink their rum, play their songs, and fight their fights sparing the growing- world ending monster- left unchecked just a few hundred feet below them.

But nothing is sure in Keelhaul other than chaos. And one day those wakes as the foot of the falls will become choppy. And the glowing yellow eyes will look up and see exactly what sort of prey the surface has to offer when whales and sinking ships stop being enough.

Until that day the pirate kings will continue to gloat about their favorite pet.