Ghost Whale

Eubalaena japonica

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Bake-kujira

It is said that strange birds and fish accompany the unexplained object that is introduced into their own souls. The annual wedding will be perpetually cursed by Bake-kujira, the common phenomenon and yokai of the abyssopelagic area.

– Izanami

Scientific Taxonomy & Character Information

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Clade: Synapsida

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Infraorder: Cetacea

Family: Balaenidae

Genus: Eubalaena

Species: Eubalaena japonica

Descendant: n/a

Named by: n/a

Year Published: n/a

Size: 12.3 m tall in height and lenght; 6666 kg in weight

Lifespan: Forever (∞) 

Type: 

Title: 

Pantheon: Japanese

Time Period: Holocene

Alignment: Bad, later neutral after summoning

Threat Level: ★★★★★

Diet: Carnivorous 🥩🥓🩸🐟🪲🦴

Elements: Water, spirit

Inflicts: Waterblight, spiritblight, ossified

Weaknesses: Fire, ice, arcane, dark, chaos

Casualties: ???

Based On: itself

Conservation Status: 

The Bake-kujira (Eubalaena japonica; 化鯨 / ばけくじら, "ghost whale") is a mythical Japanese yōkai from western Japan. This species was a deceased right whale. 😭

Etymology

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Summoning

Bake-kujira was summoning many dead bodies, and a skeleton of the right whale turned into a hill of the unburied, using the Japanese words for ordering to summon this guardian twice.


Kanji / Hiragana / Katakana:

現在、未来、美しい星、その先へ

現在、古代、美しい星、その先へ

現在、現在、美しい星、その先へ


未知からの死んだ人々の肉と骨、私を恐れてください。

メンバーとして私を覚えていませんでした。私はあなたに支払います。

骨の巨大アイドルを形成し、リベンジすべきだ!


Romaji:

(Kenma, mirai, utsukushī hoshi, sonosakihe;

Kenma, kodai, utsukushī hoshi, sonosakihe;

Kenma, genzai, utsukushī hoshi, sonosakihe;


Michi kara no shinda hitobito no niku to hone, watashi o osorete kudasai.

Menbā to shite watashi o oboete imasendeshita.

Watashi wa anata ni shiharaimasu. Hone no kyodai aidoru o keisei shi, ribenji subekida!)


Maori:

Inaianei, a meake nei, whetu ataahua, me tua atu

Ko nga whetu o naianei, o nehe, ataahua, me tua atu

Inaianei, nga whetu ataahua, me tua atu


Ko nga kikokiko me nga wheua o te hunga mate o te hunga kahore e mohiotia, e wehi ki ahau.

Kaore ratou i mahara ki ahau hei mema. Maku koe e utu.

Hanga he whakapakoko wheua nui ka utu!


English:

Present, future, beautiful stars, and beyond

Present, ancient, beautiful stars, and beyond

Now, now, beautiful stars, and beyond


Flesh and bones of dead people from the unknown, fear me.

They didn't remember me as a member. I'll pay you.

Form a giant bone idol and take revenge!

Physical Appearance

Bake-kujira is the only notorious cetacean that is now undead and considered Eubalaena japonica, the North Pacific right whale. Gave the glowing and non-passed skin because it was blue, and in this case, there was blue-green ectoplasm with their heart organ and other invisible digestive system. Besides their ghostly and undead appearance, Bake-kujira lacks a brain, digestive system, trachea, eardrum, thyroid, and pelvis, which the pelvis is now added to, and disperses the ectoplasms on its limbs and tail. Their wisdom comes from their devolved species instead of mythology.

Abilities

Bake-kujira makes them invisible at daylight in bathypelagic, mesopelagic, and epipelagic zones; they only reappear at night and midnight in all ocean layers; because of their ghosted form, their skeletons still sleep well and make them play dead at sinking or floating around the ocean. Bake-kujira slams their tail fluke to form a tidal wave. Bake-kujira breathes a whirlpool to stun enemies, causing confusion and trauma. Bake-kujira floats or levitates itself as normal.


Skills

Weather Phenomenon

Ecology

Bake-kujira makes itself to perform in their main ecological niche as baleen whales. It scared the predators because of their ghost form. Bake-kujira makes it invisible at daylight and dawn, making it immortal; it reappears at midnight, causing mortality.

Behavior

It is typically pretty placid, but when you approach it, it becomes territorial and will attack if you get too close. Because of its special ability to warp through teleportation and pass through walls when using its skill, the Bake-kujira is regarded as a high-tier tame creature.

Threats

Hunting of right whales in the North Pacific by the Japanese people began as early as the late 1000s and by Europeans and Americans in the 1830s. By 1900, the population had been reduced to a tiny fraction of its original abundance, and the variant, the bake-kujira, was hunted to extinction for ectoplasm.

Distribution and Habitat

Long ago, on a wet night, a group of fishermen from the Shimane peninsula saw a huge white shape off the shore of the Sea of Japan, which is this species' natural home. They squinted their eyes and thought it was a whale swimming out to sea. Oceans such as the Delaware and the Kihelijaroi Ocean at Planet Berbania, as well as the southern sections of Reinachos' ocean, are where bake-kujira was first introduced as an invasive species along with right whales.


Tamed

Bake-kujira was now able to tame this whale using the Apple of Eden when it was near death.

Lore

Bereshit - 300,000–70,000 BCE

In order to battle Chinese gods, Izanami used dead people or other creatures to create Gashadokuro. Izanami refused to sign the pact and continued to fight against her kind in ancient Japan, including Japanese sea lions and wooly mammoths, when her grandson Susanoo-no-Mikoto tried to stop her.


Legacy - 70,000 BCE–940 AD

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Legacy Continues - 941–present AD

In one story, a fisherman tries to catch it with his harpoon but the harpoon sailed right through it and the Bake-kujira floated away. In other stories people say that the Bake-kujira brings a curse and general misfortune to the area where it is spotted.

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