Leviathan

The Great Beast of the Sea, the Leviathan is known by a few names. The Order Levias know it as the Great Whale Levias. Some small groups, known as heretical by the Order Levias, consider it to be a great many-limbed Beast they call the Kraken. The sea is run by the Order Levias.

The Leviathan is considered one of the Great Beasts. Out of all the Great Beasts, The Leviathan has the most zealous and powerful followers. The Order Levias controls most of the ocean, and almost all Tritons are part of this Order in some way. They are the only formal government which the Tritons employ, making them a Theocracy.

It is worshiped by sailors and fishermen, as it controls the tides, current, and sea creatures. This leads to fishermen and sailors having many superstitions. Fishermen always use all of the fish, donate fish they cannot sell to beggars, and say a short prayer of thanks ("efisharistía") whenever they kill a fish. Sailors tend to avoid the Sea of Chaos completely, drop a bit of money into the waters where they know the Order is, and often keep a member of the Order on their ships, to give blessings.

The Order Levias has 5 Tenats, which they claim came from Levias. They are:


 * 1) All Sea life is to be respected, as are all who follow Levias.
 * 2) Those who harm the sea are enemies of it, and therefore us.
 * 3) All seas are to be protected, save the Sea of Chaos, which no Triton may enter.
 * 4) Start no quarrel with those who live on the land, yet suffer no insult from them.
 * 5) As the sea is flexible, all may be done to enforce the other tenants.

It is to be noted that the stated purpose of the Order Levias is to protect the sea from abominations and extraplanar horrors. Leviathan is said to have given them this order, before disappearing. The heretics who follow The Kraken claim that Leviathan has embraced these horrors and abominations, and he calls on his followers to as well. The Order Levias has a kill-on-sight policy for heretics, though some claim that this has lead to many innocents dying (like the Corsair Crustaceans).