Leviathan is a Jerk(Spoilers)

[Star Sage]

So, you absolutely fail in your duty as a 'Guardian Entity', and spend the next few years trying to just randomly protect the world by keeping people in their place to prevent the 'infection' from spreading. And when the one person who CAN fix this finally does so, you kill them to.

Meanwhile, if he does the ritual, you don't interfere at all. You are one of the WORST Eldritch Horror Guards I've ever seen. You failed to stop the thing from being picked up, you failed to keep the fisherman around(I think, it's implied he's been gone for some time), and you fail to stop that ritual that brings forth the next dark age.

[ATOMIC]

I suppose it could be a coincidence, but it sure seems like the story is a nod to "The FIsherman" by John Langan.

[KitKat for Weskers!]

I didn't even think about that, but yeah. You right.

[bsg_joel]

Originally posted by ATOMIC:

I suppose it could be a coincidence, but it sure seems like the story is a nod to "The FIsherman" by John Langan.

I actually only read that book AFTER the game launched - it was coming up a lot on our subreddit as a recommended read. I've now read it, and loved it. I definitely see the similarities!

[TheClayKnight]

How sure are we that that actually is the leviathan's job?

[Star Sage]

The old murals seem to depict it as such, and everything in the game hints that the tome had a guardian at some point, and of course, there's the fact that it's the one that isn't tied to a particular place, but instead attacks you when you go too far from the Marrow(good invisible wall there, BTW).

It's also all but stated to be the thing that attacks the boat when they dredge up the book originally. And again, FAILING to stop them(just chew on the rope dink), and instead of getting the book back, kills an innocent woman, which drives the rest of the plot as the book can promise to 'correct' this mistake, and it's not like the big fish ever even said sorry.

Again, jerk.

[Mr Tophat]

I think it is a guard but I think what it was trying to do is that no one can get the book back if it eats the book.