05-07-2015, 06:04 PM
I posted this on the old Kaiju thread on MLW, so... yeah, moving it over because 
Oh, so there's a name for giant monsters. Well, I've got one tale related to one. It's not really relevant here, but I will give you a little background on the beast itself.
I'm intimately familiar with a particular giant kraken at the bottom of the sea in my Equestria. His name is Ruul. He swims endlessly in circles around the magical battery that enabled the planet's evolution, a massive, swirling arcane storm of temporal energy. During Twilight's 'studies' of chronomantic magic, we heard his cries echoing from the abyssal depths.
He's slightly larger than Cloudsdale, which is a massive, sprawling city in the sky. I apologize for the poor comparison, but his size is truly difficult to comprehend without seeing it for yourself. He's also the largest creature in the world, and is the only creature I know of capable of swimming relatively close to the arcane storm without being disintegrated by its overwhelming power. I first read about him in a book of sailor's tales; to surface-dwellers, he's largely considered to be a myth. While he's not a myth, his influences on the tides and sailors' passage are all speculated about. Truthfully, he's pretty much harmless where he is, as far as I know. And I only know so much about him 'cause after reading about him, I had to blink myself down to the bottom of the ocean and see for myself if it was true or not. Because, you know, dream omnipotence.
I looked into that book originally simply because Equestria's home to a number of interesting entities, especially to one who hails from a place of no magic, and I was curious about how big the biggest creatures on the planet could be. Ruul doesn't disappoint.
Oh, so there's a name for giant monsters. Well, I've got one tale related to one. It's not really relevant here, but I will give you a little background on the beast itself.
I'm intimately familiar with a particular giant kraken at the bottom of the sea in my Equestria. His name is Ruul. He swims endlessly in circles around the magical battery that enabled the planet's evolution, a massive, swirling arcane storm of temporal energy. During Twilight's 'studies' of chronomantic magic, we heard his cries echoing from the abyssal depths.
He's slightly larger than Cloudsdale, which is a massive, sprawling city in the sky. I apologize for the poor comparison, but his size is truly difficult to comprehend without seeing it for yourself. He's also the largest creature in the world, and is the only creature I know of capable of swimming relatively close to the arcane storm without being disintegrated by its overwhelming power. I first read about him in a book of sailor's tales; to surface-dwellers, he's largely considered to be a myth. While he's not a myth, his influences on the tides and sailors' passage are all speculated about. Truthfully, he's pretty much harmless where he is, as far as I know. And I only know so much about him 'cause after reading about him, I had to blink myself down to the bottom of the ocean and see for myself if it was true or not. Because, you know, dream omnipotence.
I looked into that book originally simply because Equestria's home to a number of interesting entities, especially to one who hails from a place of no magic, and I was curious about how big the biggest creatures on the planet could be. Ruul doesn't disappoint.
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