This concept is inspired by one of Captain Falcore’s recent videos that revealed a change on K-9 island where a tunnel has been made MUCH wider and some of the stalactites in that tunnel near the skeleton throne are appearing icy. Next to the stalactites is a wall of rock that definitely looks like it’s moveable (like a door).
Concept
Larina and/or the Pirate Lord tell us (the pirate) that a couple of crews have gone missing on K-9 island trying to discover the cause of a disturbance.
(This order can be given to us as a normal voyage or even as a small tall tale)
The Tall Tale will lead you to K-9 island where you swim to the area with the icy stalactites and open the rock door. Opening the rock door reveals a large cave that the pirates are to explore, encountering different puzzles and sealed off rooms. As you continue through the cave it becomes increasingly more icy around you. Different rooms offer different hoards of skeletons that have obviously been affected by the cold.
The pirates will also encounter friendly phantoms of the pirates that died exploring the cave. Head their warning! Because what lies ahead is a threat to the Sea of Thieves.
At the climax of the cave a giant frosty leviathan is revealed to be laying dormant. Fiddling with an object, the pirates accidentally wake up the Leviathan enraging it. As the pirates scurry through new caves looking for an exit, the ground shakes and crumbles behind the pirates. A chilling cloud behind them creeps up on the pirates as they continue their escape which slows them down if they fall behind too far. When the pirates find the exit to the tunnel that spits them out into the ocean the Ice Leviathan breaks through the ground and swims into the direction of the wilds. The pirates finish their journey by reporting back to Larina and/or Pirate Lord.
-After Effects-
Due to the Ice Leviathan’s wake and escape into the wilds, the northern islands of the Wilds will start to experience blankets of snowfall and frosty clouds.
-New emergent threat “Ice Leviathan”-
When the Ice Leviathan spawns on a ship it lets out a recognizable roar. Throughout the encounter the leviathan will breath its icy breath on the top deck freezing all that don’t take cover or don’t hold out a lantern when the leviathans breath is incoming. Frozen pirates will naturally be melted out within 5 seconds while cannons will remain frozen and useless until the pirate holds a lantern to them to melt the ice off. The melting process of the ice on cannons will also take no longer than 5 seconds per cannon and not all cannons are frozen by the leviathan (only a majority will be). The Leviathan will also be covered by an icy armor that makes it really hard to damage it. Normal cannonballs will not be very effective for cracking the armor however it is still possible. Hitting the Leviathan with fireballs by shooting them from cannons will melt parts of the icy armor and be very effective in exposing its weak spots to normal cannonballs.
-Rewards-
The Leviathan can drop a large array of loot with 1 of those items being a new loot that is guaranteed upon the completion of each encounter. This item would be the Leviathan’s heart of ice. The heart of ice would be relatively large (about the size of a treasure chest) and would work like a cursed chest. While carrying the heart it will freeze you over time. After about 15-20 seconds of holding the heart without stopping to thaw yourself out with a lantern the heart will increasingly slow you down. Standing near the heart will also start this effect so it’s effect can reach out through an entire crew at once depending on their proximity to the heart.
-Selling-
The heart of ice is very important to the storyline as the bilgerats and/or the pirate legends are collecting them because their power will be the ultimate counter to Flameheart and his heart of fire.
-Final Remarks-
I hope anyone who sees this post enjoys the concept I drew up here. I think it can have a lot of potential because not only does it include a new Leviathan emergent threat and bring snow to a portion of the islands (which are both things that have been asked for by the community for a while), but it does so in a way that is possible and makes sense in the in-game world.
Thanks for reading and please input any ideas and feedback in the replies.
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