Rogue Wave Pirates rogue: The Living Reef (Patreon)

Hey guys! We're excited to give you an exclusive preview ahead of our public audience of a brand new Rogue Wave Pirates villain, The Living Reef!! Very excited about this one!

ORIGIN

In their many numerous adventures across the world’s oceans, one such foe that the Rogue Wave Pirates continued to encounter was a living abomination they dubbed “The Living Reef”. And just like its namesake, it was a towering, monstrous colossus that was made entirely of the coral reef shelves and sea life from which it spawned. Many coastal towns and nations would become under siege by the monstrosities attacks against the humans who inhabited the neighboring lands of where reefs made their homes. And no matter how many times Merauder’s crew managed to bring it down, the Living Reef would eventually respawn in another location.

Yet for all its attacks, no one has yet been able to figure out exactly what the Living Reef was. It showed no traces of psionic human or magical eidolon origins, and for all its destructive intentions it was very much a living, breathing creature that could not have been a demon spawn of Travail’s forces. Even Mother Nature herself was baffled by its existence, but she did have a theory- the underwater reefs of the world were living creatures just like all other beings on the planets, and since the planet’s birth millions of strange and amazing creatures had spawned and evolved from its origins. Mother Nature hypothesized that the Living Reef was just that- living coral. And its attacks were perhaps out of pain and anguish of its home and body being devastated by the growing pollution of the planet’s ocean life.

If this was true, then the Rogue Wave Pirates would need the help of Mother Earth’s Handmaiden, Empress, to end the beast's reign of terror once and for all.

Powers/Abilities

• Towering colossus of living coral and marine life, able to harness its body and abilities of said life for various abilities and powers.
  • Able to regenerate after receiving heavy damage, and seems to have the ability to move itself across great distances within the ocean to other reefs.

Living Reef was actually one of our earliest ideas for Merauder that we're carrying over into the whole team! Its design has always been a fan favorite from our earliest account on DA! And now we're excited to finally bring it to life in art form!

Rogue Wave Pirates © NRG Comics

Art by the ever awesome Nicolas/nic011 https://www.deviantart.com/nic011