Ran

R   A   N
T h e   D r o w n e d   S p i r i t s

Fishing Net

Dragonmade

Cast your nets wide and who knows what you'll bring in!

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Fulgurite

Minerals & Ores

Created when lightning hits sand, these glassy structures can be used by scholars to track ancient weather patterns. (Special thanks to notronbro!)

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Scary Storybook

Trinkets

The foreword indicates that these are best told in the dark. The black and white illustrations throughout are crude, sketchy, and haunting. Don't read the one about the neck ribbon.

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Ran was once a daughter of Void and Abyss. She stayed within the embrace of Clan Abyss and ended up following her father's footsteps into the ranks of the Abyssal Warriors. Her faction of warriors was known for holding the most excursions throughout the Sea of a Thousand Currents. She was young and reckless, and claimed to know the seafloor even better than Abyss.

One day, Ran's party never returned from an expedition to the seabed. Search parties were organized and dove out in pursuit of Ran and her companions, but there was absolutely no trace of their whereabouts, as if they had completely disappeared, consumed by the dark waters. After a long time of despair and desperate hunting, the searching eventually had to stop.

It was many moons later when Ran resurfaced, but the loving and dedicated Imperial the clan knew no longer existed. In her place was an Emperor of great proportions, demolishing and devouring without conscious thought. It is generally assumed that all of Ran is a collection of Imperials that have lost their way traversing the Sea of a Thousand Currents, and the three heads represent the embodiment of loss, sorrow, and death. The leviathan wanders the deepsea with no motive other than an occasional hunger, perhaps. Many Abyssal Warriors have accidentally swam into Ran's horror and destruction throughout the deepsea, and it takes all of the clan's strength just to keep this behemoth at bay.