Heraldry

jchilds wrote:A version of the doomwhale is also used in the Starfire series, a creature on the planet Beaufort (useful for pharmacology?). One exists on the planetary flag and IIRC the Terran Republic adds wings to it for its flag and calls it a dragon? Most of that is in Insurrection, IIRC.

I don't suppose you know of an illustration of the flag do you?

Is the description a good one? If so I can go back and read Insurrection again.
Thanks

I don't recall it being a great description. it is mainly mentioned as the design committee was a safe place to put some of the more annoying/less honest politicians while leaving them with enough "face" that they wouldn't try to cause more trouble.

Weird Harold wrote:

DrLight wrote:I'm thinking of doing a Nimue Alban costume. My one problem (actually one of my many problems) is that I can't draw and have no real idea of what a doomwhale and kraken look like.

Would any kind artist person have any ideas?

Not an artist, but a quick google image search on "doomwhale" turns up some fanart of a highly improbable (imho) interpretation.

As for me, I tend to think of Doomwhales as outsized mosasaurs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosasaur or possibly a sperm-whale sized Orca.

Think of the doomwhale as an outsized mammalian megalodon: in other words, a great white shark about 20% longer than a blue whale (about 25 meters [or 80 feet or so, for a Safeholdian]), with an extra set of pectoral fins.

There's a reason these things have occasionally sunk galleys or small galleons.

runsforcelery wrote:Think of the doomwhale as an outsized mammalian megalodon: in other words, a great white shark about 20% longer than a blue whale (about 25 meters [or 80 feet or so, for a Safeholdian]), with an extra set of pectoral fins.

There's a reason these things have occasionally sunk galleys or small galleons.

A reason? Crunchy on the outside, tasty on the inside?

runsforcelery wrote:There's a reason these things have occasionally sunk galleys or small galleons.

phillies wrote:A reason? Crunchy on the outside, tasty on the inside?

Even doomwhales just need a light snack now and then.

runsforcelery wrote:

Think of the doomwhale as an outsized mammalian megalodon: in other words, a great white shark about 20% longer than a blue whale (about 25 meters [or 80 feet or so, for a Safeholdian]), with an extra set of pectoral fins.

There's a reason these things have occasionally sunk galleys or small galleons.

Umm, not to be nitpicky, but to be nitpicky... if it was 20% longer than a Blue Whale, it would be around 35-36 meters, or 120 feet, long. You shrank the BW by 20%, instead of making it larger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale

Look at the bright side, that makes your Doomwhale even doomier!