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Description
Name: Physeter
Aliases: N/A
Pronounced: (Fy-set-er)
Faction: Terror — Sunset Blade
Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Classification: Livyatan melvillei
Length: 1,130 feet
Height: 150 feet (ground level)
Weight: 1.100 tons

Weaponry / Abilities:

Cavernous Jaws:
Physeter’s jaws have enough power behind them to flatten freighter ships, bite through massive oil rigs, and utterly destroy any smaller kaiju that gets in his way.

Heterodont Shearing Fangs:
Lining Physeter’s jaws are two types of teeth. Up front, his teeth are longer and pointed, allowing Physeter to grip into and tear through flesh with ease; the wider, triangular teeth at the rear of his jaws can crush bones and shear flesh into more easily swallowed chunks.

Battering-Ram Snout:
Akin to sperm whales, Physeter’s massive spermaceti-filled snout makes for an ideal battering-ram. Charging headlong into his targets, the massive whale can bash through ships, barges, drilling rigs, and even submarines with little effort. He has used his massive head on opposing monsters as well, breaking their bones and often rupturing organs. In deeper, colder waters, Physeter’s spermaceti reservoirs tighten up and add several dozen tons in relative density to the kaiju’s weight, overcoming neutral buoyancy and giving Physeter an even more formidable battering-ram.

Vacuum Gular Pouch:
Akin to baleen whales, yet unprecedented in any toothed whales, Physeter’s pleated throat supports a gigantic gular pouch. While it is most often used in bulk feeding, he has learned to use the pouch’s vacuum-like effects when distending to drag his foes right into his deadly jaws.

Propulsion Tail:
As with everything else about Physeter, his tail is enormous and almost unbelievably powerful. Providing all of the propulsion needed to move his immense bulk through the water, his tail also makes for a formidable weapon to slam and smash enemy SuperGiant Organisms.

Nigh-Impenetrable Hide:
Physeter’s thick, knobbly hide is well suited as a natural defense mechanism. Additionally, the monster’s thick layer of fat-storing, shock-absorbing blubber reinforces his already tough hide, allowing Physeter to withstand massive amounts of damage.

Ironsides:
Lodged between Physeter’s layers of thick hide and shock-absorbing blubber is a layer of flat, ovular bony plates. While small and insignificant on their own, these armor plates act as a sort of chainmail against external attack.

Champion Diver:
Naturally moving between the extremes in water depths to feed, Physeter’s various internal structures are built to handle the intense pressure changes. Vessels constrict and expand, skin, blubber, and the ribcage condense and spread, and various fluid-based internal systems will shift their weight to adapt to changes in outside pressure. Additionally, small fleshy nodes along Physeter’s vessels can dispose of excess nitrogen bubbles at a miraculous rate, allowing the monster to ascend and descend in the water column with relatively little issue compared to other animals. Physeter’s lungs are enormous and allow him to remain underwater for over two hours.

Invulnerability:
Thanks to his size, muscle, and physical defenses, Physeter is virtually indestructible.

The Geyser:
As with any whale, Physeter must surface to breathe from the atmosphere, and, due to the placement of his single blowhole, he leaves a distinct spray, called a blow, for respiration and echolocation purposes. Physeter can forcibly boil water in his gular pouch via a combination of internal body heat and pressure. Expelling a spray of scalding saltwater, the monster can sear through flesh, corrode and melt steel, and even cause ship fuels to combust.

Echolocation:
Echolocation is one of Physeter’s greatest natural assets. Clicking rhythmically as he swims along, he can detect food or other objects of interest in nearly any quality of water at any depth. Physeter can also weaponize this ability, using both the sound (estimated to be well over 850 decibels) and the concussive force of the soundwave to stun and kill prey, overload acoustic machinery, and stun and/or deafen opponents.

Weaknesses:

Rogue Wave:
Even with the influence from his massive size, Physeter cannot literally control the movements of water, and therefore the wakes he can create aren’t always that reliable. Sometimes, they even work against his favor, pushing targets away from him or out of more favorable attack ranges.

Personality:
An old bull Livyatan that became a kaiju during the late Miocene, Physeter has no surviving family members. Modern-day sperm whales want nothing to do with him, and everything else is terrified of him. His social animal’s psyche has not fared well over the last few eons…until he took up residence near Kerguelen Island.

When Physeter showed up around the remote southerly island, Sunset Blade’s base of operations was already established. Rather than chase away or kill the whale, the company opted to use its territorial instincts to their advantage. Ships moving to and from the island (as well as all active kaiju NLDs) were outfitted with sonar emitters that roughly match Physeter’s own frequency, giving off the illusion of a pod of whales like himself. Physeter now protects his “pod” from all intruders, which he attacks and destroys with single-minded determination. Unlike any other Sunset Blade monster, Physeter does not have an NLD installed and relies entirely on instinctual behaviors; he is not under the company’s control.

Combat Strategy:
As his size, weaponry, and temperament would all suggest, Physeter is the primary coastal defensive line for Sunset Blade’s base of operations, stationed on Kerguelen Island. Swimming around the island daily at varying depths and speeds, the monster patrols the coasts for any potential threats, initially using his enormous size to attempt deterring the threat; if this fails, Physeter will attack with little hesitation. Charging headlong for his target, Physeter attacks his targets with slow and heavy assaults.

History:
When Physeter showed up around the remote, southerly Kerguelen Island in the October of 1991, Sunset Blade’s base of operations was already established. Rather than chase away or kill the whale, the company opted to use its territorial instincts to their advantage. Ships moving to and from the island (as well as all active kaiju NLDs) were outfitted with sonar emitters that roughly match Physeter’s own frequency, giving off the illusion of a pod of whales like himself. Physeter now protects his “pod” from all intruders, which he attacks and destroys with single-minded determination.

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Artist's Commentary:
This is DOD’s resident cetacean kaiju, Physeter. Unlike many of the kaiju I’ve submitted so far, Physeter is a relatively new addition to the Days Of Dikorus, and was added in shortly after I got word of the discovery of the Miocene whale Livyatan melvillei. I created Physeter because very few whale kaiju look like actual whales, and are often poorly represented. Physeter was originally a mutant sperm whale with an elongate serpentine body and external armor; he was also going to be the leader of a cetacean-themed Sunset Blade squad called “The Pod”. But this version was not to be, and both of his cohorts, the beaked whale Mesplodon and the river dolphin Platan, were dropped in favor of Physeter getting a larger role of his own.

Design-wise, Physeter has changed quite a bit from his original concept, which was never drawn to begin with; his name is, of course, derived from Physeter macrocephalus, the binomial name for the sperm whale. I recently considered making Physeter female, to bolster the female kaiju ranks in DOD, but considering that sperm whale cows are much smaller and more timid than the bulls, I decided against it.

Artistic Notes:
— Physeter’s design is based heavily on the Miocene whale Livyatan melvillei, though he is more elongate in build, akin to the Eocene whale Basilosaurus.
— Physeter’s gular pouch is much like the gular pouch of a baleen whale, folds and all.
— Physeter’s teeth are longer and more conical up front, like those of Livyatan melvillei; his rear teeth are broader and serrated, like the rear teeth of Basilosaurus, which can be seen here: 0.tqn.com/d/dinosaurs/1/0/X/7/… .
— Physeter’s blowhole is up near the tip of his snout. It is angled to the left a bit, but there is only one hole.
— Physeter’s back is rather bumpy and wrinkled, like that of an old bull sperm whale.

*First Livyatan kaiju on DA!*

Description
Name: Physeter
Aliases: N/A
Pronounced: (Fy-set-er)
Faction: Terror — Sunset Blade
Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Classification: Livyatan melvillei
Length: 1,130 feet
Height: 150 feet (ground level)
Weight: 1.100 tons

Weaponry / Abilities:

Cavernous Jaws:
Physeter’s jaws have enough power behind them to flatten freighter ships, bite through massive oil rigs, and utterly destroy any smaller kaiju that gets in his way.

Heterodont Shearing Fangs:
Lining Physeter’s jaws are two types of teeth. Up front, his teeth are longer and pointed, allowing Physeter to grip into and tear through flesh with ease; the wider, triangular teeth at the rear of his jaws can crush bones and shear flesh into more easily swallowed chunks.

Battering-Ram Snout:
Akin to sperm whales, Physeter’s massive spermaceti-filled snout makes for an ideal battering-ram. Charging headlong into his targets, the massive whale can bash through ships, barges, drilling rigs, and even submarines with little effort. He has used his massive head on opposing monsters as well, breaking their bones and often rupturing organs. In deeper, colder waters, Physeter’s spermaceti reservoirs tighten up and add several dozen tons in relative density to the kaiju’s weight, overcoming neutral buoyancy and giving Physeter an even more formidable battering-ram.

Vacuum Gular Pouch:
Akin to baleen whales, yet unprecedented in any toothed whales, Physeter’s pleated throat supports a gigantic gular pouch. While it is most often used in bulk feeding, he has learned to use the pouch’s vacuum-like effects when distending to drag his foes right into his deadly jaws.

Propulsion Tail:
As with everything else about Physeter, his tail is enormous and almost unbelievably powerful. Providing all of the propulsion needed to move his immense bulk through the water, his tail also makes for a formidable weapon to slam and smash enemy SuperGiant Organisms.

Nigh-Impenetrable Hide:
Physeter’s thick, knobbly hide is well suited as a natural defense mechanism. Additionally, the monster’s thick layer of fat-storing, shock-absorbing blubber reinforces his already tough hide, allowing Physeter to withstand massive amounts of damage.

Ironsides:
Lodged between Physeter’s layers of thick hide and shock-absorbing blubber is a layer of flat, ovular bony plates. While small and insignificant on their own, these armor plates act as a sort of chainmail against external attack.

Champion Diver:
Naturally moving between the extremes in water depths to feed, Physeter’s various internal structures are built to handle the intense pressure changes. Vessels constrict and expand, skin, blubber, and the ribcage condense and spread, and various fluid-based internal systems will shift their weight to adapt to changes in outside pressure. Additionally, small fleshy nodes along Physeter’s vessels can dispose of excess nitrogen bubbles at a miraculous rate, allowing the monster to ascend and descend in the water column with relatively little issue compared to other animals. Physeter’s lungs are enormous and allow him to remain underwater for over two hours.

Invulnerability:
Thanks to his size, muscle, and physical defenses, Physeter is virtually indestructible.

The Geyser:
As with any whale, Physeter must surface to breathe from the atmosphere, and, due to the placement of his single blowhole, he leaves a distinct spray, called a blow, for respiration and echolocation purposes. Physeter can forcibly boil water in his gular pouch via a combination of internal body heat and pressure. Expelling a spray of scalding saltwater, the monster can sear through flesh, corrode and melt steel, and even cause ship fuels to combust.

Echolocation:
Echolocation is one of Physeter’s greatest natural assets. Clicking rhythmically as he swims along, he can detect food or other objects of interest in nearly any quality of water at any depth. Physeter can also weaponize this ability, using both the sound (estimated to be well over 850 decibels) and the concussive force of the soundwave to stun and kill prey, overload acoustic machinery, and stun and/or deafen opponents.

Weaknesses:

Rogue Wave:
Even with the influence from his massive size, Physeter cannot literally control the movements of water, and therefore the wakes he can create aren’t always that reliable. Sometimes, they even work against his favor, pushing targets away from him or out of more favorable attack ranges.

Personality:
An old bull Livyatan that became a kaiju during the late Miocene, Physeter has no surviving family members. Modern-day sperm whales want nothing to do with him, and everything else is terrified of him. His social animal’s psyche has not fared well over the last few eons…until he took up residence near Kerguelen Island.

When Physeter showed up around the remote southerly island, Sunset Blade’s base of operations was already established. Rather than chase away or kill the whale, the company opted to use its territorial instincts to their advantage. Ships moving to and from the island (as well as all active kaiju NLDs) were outfitted with sonar emitters that roughly match Physeter’s own frequency, giving off the illusion of a pod of whales like himself. Physeter now protects his “pod” from all intruders, which he attacks and destroys with single-minded determination. Unlike any other Sunset Blade monster, Physeter does not have an NLD installed and relies entirely on instinctual behaviors; he is not under the company’s control.

Combat Strategy:
As his size, weaponry, and temperament would all suggest, Physeter is the primary coastal defensive line for Sunset Blade’s base of operations, stationed on Kerguelen Island. Swimming around the island daily at varying depths and speeds, the monster patrols the coasts for any potential threats, initially using his enormous size to attempt deterring the threat; if this fails, Physeter will attack with little hesitation. Charging headlong for his target, Physeter attacks his targets with slow and heavy assaults.

History:
When Physeter showed up around the remote, southerly Kerguelen Island in the October of 1991, Sunset Blade’s base of operations was already established. Rather than chase away or kill the whale, the company opted to use its territorial instincts to their advantage. Ships moving to and from the island (as well as all active kaiju NLDs) were outfitted with sonar emitters that roughly match Physeter’s own frequency, giving off the illusion of a pod of whales like himself. Physeter now protects his “pod” from all intruders, which he attacks and destroys with single-minded determination.

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Artist's Commentary:
This is DOD’s resident cetacean kaiju, Physeter. Unlike many of the kaiju I’ve submitted so far, Physeter is a relatively new addition to the Days Of Dikorus, and was added in shortly after I got word of the discovery of the Miocene whale Livyatan melvillei. I created Physeter because very few whale kaiju look like actual whales, and are often poorly represented. Physeter was originally a mutant sperm whale with an elongate serpentine body and external armor; he was also going to be the leader of a cetacean-themed Sunset Blade squad called “The Pod”. But this version was not to be, and both of his cohorts, the beaked whale Mesplodon and the river dolphin Platan, were dropped in favor of Physeter getting a larger role of his own.

Design-wise, Physeter has changed quite a bit from his original concept, which was never drawn to begin with; his name is, of course, derived from Physeter macrocephalus, the binomial name for the sperm whale. I recently considered making Physeter female, to bolster the female kaiju ranks in DOD, but considering that sperm whale cows are much smaller and more timid than the bulls, I decided against it.

Artistic Notes:
— Physeter’s design is based heavily on the Miocene whale Livyatan melvillei, though he is more elongate in build, akin to the Eocene whale Basilosaurus.
— Physeter’s gular pouch is much like the gular pouch of a baleen whale, folds and all.
— Physeter’s teeth are longer and more conical up front, like those of Livyatan melvillei; his rear teeth are broader and serrated, like the rear teeth of Basilosaurus, which can be seen here: 0.tqn.com/d/dinosaurs/1/0/X/7/… .
— Physeter’s blowhole is up near the tip of his snout. It is angled to the left a bit, but there is only one hole.
— Physeter’s back is rather bumpy and wrinkled, like that of an old bull sperm whale.

*First Livyatan kaiju on DA!*