imagine for a moment peace the Open Sea the unending tide the waves the deep and Stellar Horizon you breathe it in and it completes you your home your birthplace salt and sea and when the storms rise and shadows stir beneath the surface most would flee cower find the lighthouse but those are lesser ships captained by lesser sailors of the storms you do not run from the storms the sea is not your queen she kneels for you and the Shadows you do not flee the Shadows you seek them out and today well today marks the most
dangerous hunt of them all the hunt for the mirror whale gulls croak as you dock for the nearest Port the sun beads down on your wooden home and you frown for the Earth feels alien underneath your feet cheers and celebration arise from your crew why hope we docked they ask you information you reply as you walk off the ship Gil you point to your first mate with me you find the small Hut near the city's border you stand in front of the door and reach out to knock stop you stop no mirrors a voice calls
out you look around Gil laughs beside you calm down see her no mirrors The Voice calls out again and you nod all right you set down your spy glass and Nod to Gil to do the same and the door opens and you regard the strange man who opened the door an older gentleman with both his eyes closed he keeps them closed so it's you who seek soil you nod and the man beckons you forward a strange home cramped papers litter everywhere and no mirrors glass or anything of the light as if the home was built
to avoid any and every reflection how strange you think as you March through it behind the man his eyes are still closed but he navigates it expertly why do you seek an early death he asks you I seek Glory he reply the final words of Many Men I'm not many men he frowns the final words of many men and leads you to his office beckons you sit you look up to see a crack in the rooftop where the sun beads down a rainbow reflection the old man with his eyes closed sits in front of you
the mirror whale is a being unimaginable he turns to you his gaze holds you in place I've heard your exploits the north rer they call you for you push forward you push North and stop at nothing but I beseech you to listen to me now and he finally opens his eyes scratched out as if by himself or by some mad man who fell upon him and only the sockets remain this is where you stop men have rumored about its body its skin its pattern but even those few were starting from the wrong Point yes the
ocean is its home but only because it chooses such yes no one has ever seen it and lived but only because it wills it so so if you came you're expecting a battle report no such exists nor even the description all I can tell you is this sail the most North you've ever sailed North Sher then go even further and when the water turns white as snow as a mirror close your eyes and go then to your ancestors you stand up thank you Seer for your words of wisdom I mourn you nor shrider he start
to walk off one more thing you stop abandon every mirror every reflection on your ship why Abandon All mirrors fear the man with no reflection nor Strider you nod and walk off then you stop you may think me a fool or perhaps a Hardy sailor drunk on his own songs I assure you sir I am neither at 24 years of age the sea took from me wife and child devoured by the Kraken on our way north of Adria I could do nothing then you could not know the wind's whip the Ash's eyes the Storm sword
I saw that day the Beast went where it pleased and the Beast took but when my wife passed and I reached out my hand to try and save her it was not the kraken's whip that killed her I saw her eyes as she went all white infinitely reflecting like a mirror so no I am not sailor I am not a Madman I am the vengeful Spirit of the sea and I assure you sear if nothing else I stride North as you walk back to the ship Gil laughs beside you it's all nonsense he smiles as
he takes something out of his pocket his family lock had this in there he points to the reflection on the locket the picture of his daughter nothing happened he frown you reach your ship again and the crew Smiles wear a two cap and you nod as you all say it together North the crew Roar into action hoisting sails and raising banners Abandon All mirrors to shout as they work every reflection on the ship must go Gil laughs cap did you really everything Gil again he nods and you stare off into the distance to the [Music]
north peace is what you feel looking at the waves the calm the quiet peace 6 months you've hunted the creature that slayed your family that ruined everything you look up with eyes hard as steel as a knock shakes you at the door Gilligan Peaks his head up out cap we're as far north as we've ever been no movement in the water no waves gone wide but we've done everything you think sailed North no mirrors where is it why won't it show keep watch right the next day keep watch no mirrors the day after no mirrors
keep watch the month the year the fifth you say those words every day keep watch the sea turns cold some parts ice the waves are not kind here but still so it all you stride North and one day you say those same words keep watch but Gilligan does not leave your cabin you can't be watching me and the waves can you Gil cap it's all right to let them go you look up at him careful now I'm just trying wh a voice calls out he Rise Like the Wind and approach the ship's Edge and there
it lies you see now why the old man said the sea would change color for it's coloss fossil frame Paints the water a shade of white its body is a seaf fairing Mountain bins the height of City walls your eyes Harden man the posts Hoist the sail starboard cannons up you make for the whale it pokes its head from the water you look upon it and you call the ship into full bow you ram into the whale with the full force of your iron warship you shout for cannons and they answer filling the air with
songs of war and death you lacerate the Beast skin with everything you can manage a duel of the grandest the two most dominant forces of the sea clashing for lordship you will not Bend you will not break and you will not bow one Cannon leaves a glancing blow near its belly as you aboard its Fury it Roars and the gulls drop from the air the waves from its body crash into your ship and it threatens to sink you like the insect you are no you were an insect then not anymore the mwell swims under the
ship and rs it from underneath shaking you all to your core it RS and Rams and rs and then you are taken to that day but you aren't the same man who reached out for his wife and could not catch her and you reach for the javelin beside you and dive into the sea the whale skin shines bright as day under sea the Stellar god of the ocean you make for it with a spirit's Vengeance it turns to you and you swear you see a grin upon its eyes you grin too and you swim towards
the whale with a fury of a thousand burning Suns it reaches for you with a fin and you dive underneath it to spot the cannon marked with a glancing blow and you think of her and you dive and dive and thrust with all your might and the world turns black you spit out water from your lungs and blink blury to look up at Gilligan in front of you he eyes you and then Smiles he nods his head left and you turn to see the mirror whales corpse floating in the water beside your ship Victoria cheers
and celebration boom from the nighttime air as the wh is carved for the victory dinner a massive fire Kindles the center of your ship as the cooks get to work carving the whale you soak in the rry and the Adoration finally you can say goodbye to them finally true peace drink it in let it fill you when the C told you to carve up the whale he was searching for truth be told you were excited Life as a ship's cook can be hard especially with North shrider hunting different beasts every month but more so than
that you are the luckiest cook in all the worlds for you get to discover the most unique and hidden tastes worlds have not yet found kraken's eyes were your Discovery as were Merlo and siren's heart without you no strer wouldn't be no strer so as you carve through the top skin of the miror whell you smile for you have a feeling that this next Discovery will make you more famous than the others combined you hear the [ __ ] ah there it is found it you shout for everyone to hear the mirror whale's heart you
reach for it and pull it out to see a small Stone infinitely reflecting a mirror then you spot your reflection in that mirror and it smiles back at you peace finally you can be at peace as you watch the head chef carve the whale from a railing you think back on your exploits the Leviathan the siren Queen the depth Walker the stranger you slave them all a memory comes to life something about praying for your ancestors or some other but not today the faint part of you wonders what the chef will discover for its heart
a new delicacy No Doubt found it you hear him shout and you smile the chef walks out and he laughs it's a stone he says it will make for a stunning dish you watch the chef as he emerges the whale's corpse lifting up the stone you watch the chef the fire from the celebration crackles in front of him but he has no Shadow no reflection oh there's some writing on here he says no no what does it say on there no no says hello the sea turns white liquid silver and you turn to see Gilligan
with the same white eyes infinitely dancing you spot his locket in his hands his daughter's image and the reflection inside of it and you see your reflection staring back at you you reach forward Lian aims his gun at his head the chef reaches for a nearby knife the crew roaring the Panic frenzy and the memory Downs on you close your eyes and go Bend to your ancestors you breathe and close your eyes hoping there is truth in that advice words cannot describe what exactly you hear when you Clos knives slitting guns firing and laughter The
Familiar laughter of drunken men on the finest sticker it almost sounds just like the earlier celebrations dancing cheers the sight of what was happening now you know is not for the world to see then you hear your wife's voice the one you reached out to the one you tried to save stop you hear from no voice in particular or perhaps every voice in the world lying what what is that stop lying I don't stop a tear Falls from your cheek because you know deep down you never reached out for her you hid you could have
saved her you saw the moment but you watched her fall you were a coward then and an even greater one now the mirror it's just what it calls itself a mirror for you to see who you truly are you hid then and you're hiding now open your eyes face the music face who you truly are nor strier you keep them shut then comes the water and you lose Consciousness your heart beat is the only reason that you know you're alive you wake up you feel the ground beneath your feet and you keep your eyes shut
a shipwreck maybe crashed on a small island in the middle of the Adrian sea who knows you could not say for you keep your eyes shut around you you hear your crew's voices cap they call out are you there you keep them shut you make a silent prayer but you keep them shut through the first day the first month the third but if you would have opened them you would have realized that there was nothing there that the whale left you long ago because it knew you would never open it knew who you truly were
if you would have opened it you would have realized that your crew mates really were right beside you right in front of you to boot they too closed their eyes and kept them shut you and your crew were all alone and safe such was the whale's pleasure if you opened them you would have known the gilan was the whales vessel ever since that day when the Sea's reflection penetrated the man's Hut and the mirell used it to hide inside his locket but you keep them shot and as you and your crew mates turn to dust
perfectly safe on an abandoned Island you keep them shot you keep them shot you keep them shot [Music] by the way I started a patreon so please check it out for my scripts or simply to support the channel so I can make more videos more frequently and at the higher quality also join the Discord we have fun there the story of how I made this video comes from a previous one when I was brainstorming creatures to mention in this earlier video when the character is searching through the archive I called one the mirror whale and
ever since I found it was very compelling name this comment seemed to agree so I thought why not write about it
