The Great Death was an undead Bake-kujira of the Shadowlands. It harassed the vessels of the Mantis Clan in the Colonies. The Mantis hunted the creature to eliminate the threat. The remnant of the massive sea creatures the people of the Ivory Kingdoms called “whales,” was considered by the Ivinda to be a manifestation of divine evil with a relentless hunger. The bones that made up the Great Death were harder than any steel.