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Char card

Name: The Widowmaker, Aphilon

Species: Undetermined. Likely a previously undiscovered marine evolution of dragons, or a species of creature from some unknown part of Nirn.

Age: Unknown. Imperial archives record the first sighting of this lumbering beast as dating back to the late 3rd era, where it was known to have terrorised small fishing settlements on the coast of the Sea of Ghosts in Skyrim, as well as occasional appearances near Solstheim.

Appearance: Though there are no definite records of the creature's appearance, eyewitness accounts often agree on the following description. Aphilon seems to be a gigantic draconic serpent, with a line of serrated fins running down it's back. It is rumoured to have a hide of tough, abyssal blue scales, and a gaping maw filled with ivory teeth. It's length has been estimated to range anywhere from 70 to 230 meters, but no one has yet to confirm it's actual size.

Armament: Aphilon may not have the powerful shouts or wings of a dragon, or the cannons and coordination of a ship, but it gets along with two primary weapons: It's teeth, and sheer mass. Being much larger than either a ship or a dragon, Aphilon is estimated to displace a whopping 8,000 tonnes of water when fully submerged, making it more than twice as large as an average Imperial frigate. It is reported to hit top speeds of up to 18 knots in a burst, easily fast enough to ram straight through a ship. Aphilon is also known to have constricted ships to destroy them.

Backstory: Little is known about the elusive giant that is Aphilon. What tidbits of information the Imperial Navy does know, however, point to a creature of awesome destructive potential.

The following is from an Imperial logbook of a detachment sent to check on a reported destruction of a civilian fleet near Winterhold.

"What wreckage was washed upon the shores was often shattered, blasted apart. No signs of other damage, whether fire, cannonballs, or arrows could be found. It seemed like the ships had been simply blasted apart through some sort of large, heavy object at high speed. We do not know what sort of weapon could create such an effect. No known cannon or ram we know of today has been able to replicate the effects we have seen on the wreckage. We rarely find survivors. Even when we do, most of them are either comatose, or have gone insane, blabbering on and on about some serpent that ate an entire fleet. To even conceive such an idea is ludicrous. Regardless, we have noticed a pattern in our research. It seems that the only wreckage we find belongs to bigger ships, like trading merchants or large city ships. The smaller ships seem to have vanished entirely."