This is a concept for a new World Event, specifically a new, harder variant of the Kraken we know and quite possibly hate! Most people know that the Karen we fight is always the same one, retreating into the depths when sufficiently injured instead of dying - so why not give her a partner?
The main idea of the Ashen Kraken is a harder but rarer variant of the Kraken, who has a 1/5 chance to appear instead of the normal Karen, and drops Ashen loot. The Ashen Kraken is more likely to spawn if the previous world event was an Ashen Winds, however it always have a chance to spawn instead of Karen even if the world event was different. If any crew in open water has an Ashen Winds skull on board they are far more likely to be attacked if the Kraken is Ashen, making taking the skull a greater risk.
Here are the differences between an Ashen Kraken and the normal variety (all subject to change because I am bad at balancing lol):
-The appearance of the tentacles have been changed for a darker palette with orange glowing out of the scars and cuts on them
-A large billow of smoke in the sky forms above an Ashen Kraken, allowing for other crews to identify it from a distance
-Instead of inky water's slowing effect, the Ashen Kraken summons boiling orange water in its radius, damaging pirates in it (the water does still slow ships, though much less than a normal Kraken's)
-Each tentacle is slightly more beefy and more tentacles are needed to be destroyed before the kraken retreats
-A new behaviour for tentacles that replaces the existing 'slap' behaviour, instead launching Volcanic Rocks into the air much like volcanoes in the Devil's Roar
-If a pirate attacks a wrapping tentacle, instead of spitting out poison, lava will be spat out that may set the Pirate on fire
-If 3 or more crews are within an Ashen Kraken's ink pool, the Kraken will begin to use the Ashen Lord's 'Worlds End' ability, spewing Volcanic Rocks out of a portal in the sky that targetbolded text ships
-Defeating an Ashen Kraken drops a guarenteed 'Reaper's Treasury', a new Reaper's Bones treasure worth about 15000 Gold to the Reaper's Bones or 50 Doubloons if sold to the Bilge Rats, is marked on the map and emits a billow of red smoke high into the sky acting as a beacon. Buried Reaper's Treasuries will still emit the smoke so they cannot be hidden by burying
-All commendations related to the Kraken have their own forms on the Ashen Kraken, with lowered recquirements - completing them unlocks the Infernal Kraken cosmetics set
