I used to think my ancient enemy evil. I cursed him for my defeat, for the ruination of my home and the destruction of my people. I used him as an excuse for my laziness, my cowardice.

Centuries of isolation, of reflection, has a way of shaping one’s mind.

Balmut is rage incarnate, a walking volcano, seeking only destruction. Beelzebub is pure evil, meant to strike deep at the heart of man. For them, there can only be death.

But Lotan, I understand.

We polluted his waters. Slaughtered his kin. Raped and pillaged his domain.

Lotan is not evil.

Were I in his position, would not I have done the same? He is the sea. A placid surface atop roiling depths. Make no waves, and face not the turbid currents beneath.

I seek no quarrel with the Avatar of the Abyss.

The only one to blame for my defeat was me.

-Tianlung the Godflame

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Title: Lotan, Avatar of the Abyss.

Also known as: Jormungandr, Tiamat, Typhon and the Sea Titan.

Activity: Scarce.

Area: The Oceans.

Bio: Lotan is the second Titan ever to appear on Earth Bet. It is thirty feet tall, covered in green scales, quadrupedal, and shaped somewhat like a cross between an ape and a wolf. It sports digitigrade back legs and long claws. Lotan is heavily muscled, and possessed of a prehensile tail over 50 feet long. It bears no discernable facial features aside from four glowing green eyes like crevices that split apart its skin. Lotan’s body is contoured by micromolecular fins.

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Lotan is a hydrokinetic, able to manipulate water on a massive scale. However, it is not a true ygrokinetic, as it is only capable of manipulating those liquids with a sufficient amount of water in them. The Titan primarily attacks port cities, riding upon the back of a tsunami, and drenching the location with a rainstorm. It will not hesitate to draw larger and larger waves from the sea depending upon the course of battle.

Lotan will also use its ability to destroy underground aquifers and caverns, exerting extreme amounts of pressure to erode the surrounding silica and materials in order to collapse part of or the entirety of its target. In more than one instance, particularly during the Horror, this ability sank entire islands and carved off landmasses into the sea. Contesting the Titan’s control with Blessed hydrokinetics, while effective, will cause it to target them ceaselessly.

Lotan has the ability to create clones of itself composed entirely of water. It uses one of these clones to produce an “after-image” of itself that follows it in combat. The clones are more vulnerable to damage than the Titan, and do not hit as hard, but move just as quickly. The maximum number of clones Lotan can create is unknown, but legends of the Horror propose it fielded as many as ten at a time.

In addition to the incredible strength and durability of a Titan, Lotan boasts remarkable speed. The upper limit of such speed is unknown, and is not on the level of the Quicksilver, but Lotan has demonstrated speeds of up to 80 miles per hour.

Personality: Lotan is, without doubt, an incredibly skilled combatant. It demonstrates more proficiency in battle than either of the other two original Titans, Balmut (who rampages around like an animal) and the Simurgh (whose foresight cannot truly be likened to skill in combat).

Despite this, Lotan does not appear to take any pleasure in fighting. Make no mistake, the Titan will not pull punches if pushed, but neither does it exhibit Balmut’s destructive glee or Beelzebub’s sadism. If sufficiently pressed, Lotan will simply retreat. Despite legends describing Lotan as quite active prior the collapse and during the Horror, in recent years the Titan has scarcely been seen, apparently content to remain in its lair at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Lotan will not hesitate to attack those who damage the sea’s ecosystem through overfishing, dumping of toxic materials, or the widespread destruction of coral, but no longer attacks ships seemingly at random.

No, now the only thing to fear from the seas are those creatures what escape its Labyrinthine Maws.

-Excerpt from A Treatise on the Nature and Manner of Titans for Internal Circulation by Chief Chronicler Axio.