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Ahab was the captain of the Pequod. A renown whaler from Nantucket. Many calamities had befallen him ever since the one time he had encountered a white sperm whale of behemoth proportions, which resulted in the loss of a leg. The whale came to be known as Moby Dick. Ahab was obsessed with finding and killing this whale. He blamed it for all the evil in this world, and compared it to the leviathan of the old testament, as well as to the devil. His lust for vengeance was insatiable. He gathered a crew to hunt for the white whale. He promised a Spanish golden ounce to the first man to spot the whale. "I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out. What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look brave." Only the death of the white whale would cleanse him of his madness. Unfortunately for Ahab's crew, Ahab was so blinded by his thirst for revenge on the whale, that he led most of his crew to their deaths. As he threw his iron tusk into the crooked brow of the beast, it dragged them all down into the deep blue sea.
The fossils of a prehistoric macroraptorial sperm whale that lived about 5 million years ago was named after what Ahab calls Moby Dick in the book; "Leviathan". The word leviathan is derived from ancient Judaism, referring to an ancient evil more powerful than anything, that god himself had to slay. Later then the word has come to mean "Sea monster" and "Great whale". The name given to the prehistoric whale was therefore Livyatan. This whale had the largest ever teeth in the animal kingdom, and was a hunter of large prey, prowling besides the huge prehistoric Megalodon during the late Miocene. Its biteforce would likely have been one of the greatest in the history of the earth, being able to literally bite 6 meter long whales in half. Which is why, in my opinion it has to be one of the most metal beasts to ever have lived.
Sperm whales today are also quite the magnificent beasts. Battling huge squids several kilometers underneath the surface of the ocean, hence why they often sport huge scars across their faces and enormous bodies.
Well that's reason enough for me to make a skin of ol' Moby... and of course also because Mastodon made an entire concept album about it. So yea, what you see on this skin is; Moby Dick roaring over the sinking Pequod as captain Ahab and his coffin sink into the sea.
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Update #1 : by Carcharodontosaurus 08/22/2021 5:47:32 pmAugust 22, 2021 @ 9:47 pm UTC
Did a big update in terms of the ocean foam. Also added more lighting to the ocean and the body. Not to mention the entire sky has gotten a green stormy ominous overhaul.
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