Born from the Sea

There is a monster in the sea. That is what the humans call it, anyway. Sailors who see a flash of scales, who see the currents of the water change abruptly, who see a long, dark shape underneath them and pray that it passes them by.

Everyone who spends time out on the deep sea feels its presence, sees its shadow, feels the fear of something so much more than they are living in the darkness beneath.

In truth, humans are wrong. There is no monster in the depths. It is something better and worse, and so much more. There is a Goddess who lives in the sea, large and dreadful and terrifyingly beautiful. Her body is long and grey, her skin is scaled and covered in the detritus of her world. Algae, seaweeds, even some small crustaceans, all make their home along her body. They pay homage to her power.

She is ancient. The Goddess was formed when the waters first started to create furrows in the Earth’s surface. Back then, acid fell from the sky, and the Goddess had to be tough to survive its fall. Her eyes are luminescent now, to see better in the dark depths, but in the beginning, they were fire, and her claws contained poison. Her breath was a plague to everything in her path.

The Goddess has changed over the years, as all things do. Even immortals. Her teeth are more deadly, her tail has grown enormous, and her claws are long enough to tear through a ship’s hull with barely a thought.

Since the water first started to fall, this has been her whole world and all that she has known. One day, she grows curious. The Goddess is old enough to remember that not everything used to be as it is now. She wonders about those beings above her, the humans who have crawled out from the depths of her world and slowly adapted to another one.

The Goddess senses a yearning in herself, which does not happen often, and she journeys through the waters until she reaches the edge of her domain. With barely a thought, the Goddess changes her shape, something that she has not done for a very long time. She could never forget how to shift and form into something new, though, and so she does.

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There is a monster that lives in the sea. That is what people call it when they catch a glimpse of its monstrous body and sharp claws and teeth. They pray that it shows mercy and passes them by. It is old and terrible.

In truth, it is not a monster at all, but a Goddess - ancient and wise and, yes, terrible and beautiful. She was there even before water started collecting on the surface of the Earth and gathering together to form the deep sea. She is made of the sea and from the stars, and one day, she decides to walk among the humans and see what has become of them.

What will she discover, this Goddess from the sea?

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