Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Kraken

It is time to Release the Kraken! Powerful overlords of the deep aquatic realms.
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[@AJPickett]

Ugh, ok, partial victory, I now realize that bypassing the direct upload from my (broken) video editor means that the cropping settings I altered to try to fix the aspect ratio error, now mess up the images displayed, while the intro and outro video clips work perfectly. At least I know I am on the right track at last.

[@ShineDark]

In my groups campaign, we watched in awe and horror as an ancient golden dragon fought a kraken. It ended with the Dragon using an Enlarge spell to make itself big enough to pick up the kraken and carry it to orbit. The fight was ended by the Dragon throwing the kraken into space.

[@lysander9957]

The "minions in a can" bit gave me a wonderful mental image of a kraken in a supermarket pulling cans off the shelf like, "...Organic Sahaguin..., oh Weak-Willed Human that's nice. Should I splurge on Crazy Elven Wizard? Yeah, treat yourself, Fthyblonyll."

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

I'm guilty of previously thinking of the kraken as a dumb beast, or a really overpriced spiced rum 🤣🤣🤣

[@edmaldonado8207]

A kraken is the main antagonist of my two year long campaign and in a couple of sessions, the final battle with it is about to commence. In the last session the party were at a town that worships the kraken. In fact the town was experiencing a time of bounty, with fishing catches being abundant. All they have to do of course is sacrifice someone to the kraken once per season, usually the elderly who volunteer do this, a small sacrifice for prosperity. This made the players really uncomfortable, in a good way!

[@zacharyhawley1693]

I paired a kraken with a couple callers of the deep. (Elementals of the black water at the bottom of the ocean.) The funniest encounter though was in the epic campaign. The epic fighter had married a woman from his hometown island. When you aren't even interested in mortal conflict not much can phase you. An antagonist decided to kidnap his wife. He's about to embark on a rescue when she just abruptly shows up on his ship. "I rescued myself because I got bored. They didn't even know how to tie knots properly." Bard just pronounces the fighter. Mr.kraken. And the fighter doesn't deny it. So he just took his wife with him from then on.

[@Diditallforthexp]

Kraken open a cold one with the horrific monsters of the deepest depths!

[@zacharyhawley1693]

I would wager that the Kraken is still doing its job. Since the gods' battlefield is incomprehensibly vast and could include alternate timelines, innumerable mortal worlds and only gods know how many battlefields throughout the multiverse. Its better to let your aquatic siege weapons believe in their freedom and superiority as long as their work continues unabated.

[@SlothinAintEasy]

The idea of a massive tentacle monster from the deep flying through the air is terrifying

[@styrax7280]

It always amuses me that in German "Krake" (pl. Kraken) simply means octopus ^^

[@ShizaruBloodrayne]

I'm half way through this video and I've already imagined the depths of Eldritch horror..........imagine an Elder Brain being implanted in the body of a Kraken, kept in a state of undeath where the Kraken's powers can still be used via stimuli.....while also frankensteined with the bodies of a Leviathan and a Dragon Turtle...

[@OswaldStretchdisaz]

Came back to this vid, i love how in depth D&D gets on these fellas.

[@jameswhite-pv3sq]

Coming back to my favorite big kritter.

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

I'm sorry, did you just say "Underwater Purple Worms" in passing and not elaborate on that, as though it were no big deal that D&D Sandworms can apparently swim and breathe underwater!?

[@PuffLance]

For a moment I thought this was "Dungeons and Dragons Lore: KAREN" and was rlly scared

[@kylienielsen6975]

So for spell jammer you could just give one galactis's ship

[@anathema1828]

Release the Kraken? The Krakens are ruled by no-one!

[@Klancer2]

Had an idea for a bunch of Krakens to pass the time by playing what is essentially death chess, but in place of each piece, they use an entire squadron of sea creatures. Anything, up to and including aboleths or dragon turtles could be fielded, though anything like that would have to be manipulated onto the field.

[@pouncerlion4022]

The "broken, knotted, severed and rewritten" time of creation and war explains a lot of the now conflicting data coming out for the 5e lore.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

How do they deal with aboleth?