Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160125214134/@comment-25936766-20160808125032

Sentry 616 wrote: -Are random weaponized growths common in kraken tellings?

-I though the name was slightly clever as it is designed to turn any encounter into a blood bath, and I also designed it  with Lovecraftian principles. i.e. tentacles of death and chaos -No, but the point is, your Kraken is still a Kraken. A giant squid/octopus that easily sinked ships. While the Grimm don't have to be 100% identical to their namesake (bears don't have spikes like Ursae do), your Kraken is still a Kraken.

-If you think those were even some of his principles, you missed the point HARD.

Lovecraft's stories did not always involve "ugly tentacles of death and chaos". That was not the point. The point, was to emphasize on the fear of the unknown. That's what his stories, even the most mundane, emphasized, the fear about things you know nothing about.

The name is horribly edgy, and the slight cleverness doesn't change that.