forum What is the biggest, largest, most gigantic creature in your world?

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Where does it live? What does it eat? What is it afraid of? What does it look like?

So interesting! When one country was trying to explain to another this 'large' creature, some miscommunication occurred in the resulting statue and it was much larger and more terrifying than it actually was. It's pretty much an elephant.

Fruit dinosaurs (essentially)…

The Irmans true forms

That's a hard question, but the biggest in terms of physical space it takes up is probably the Celestial Presence, the source of all magic. In looser terms, probably a tie between a lot of the deities, a lot of them are kinda omnipresent.

Oh heck i have a lot of those. But definitely either this giant worm monster i made up or these huge elemental creatures. I think all of my largest beasts are evil tbh. Both of these certainly are.

Giant cats! Used for transportation purposes, primarily, but also manual labor sometimes. You find some in the wild, but the wild ones are usually more real-life-feline-sized.

Probably the daemons, some are normal like human sized but others (primarily the guards and protectors of hell are huge), up to nine feet tall without their horns.

In my science-fantasy universe, but for a few godlike creations that I would regard as separate from mere creatures, that honor goes to the Avkhana; massive, carapace-blanketed space worms that grow to be the size of stars, and predate upon entire planets worth of life by blasting them with lasers that break down life and draw the broken down material into their gaping maws. They're distinctly afraid of intelligent life and, themselves, intelligent enough to avoid planets inhabited by intelligent life; although they are massive, fleets controlled by intelligent life can often take them down if they become a serious threat, and thus they instinctually avoid angering them.

In my high-fantasy universe, as of right now that honor would go to Apocalyptic Interstitials. These things form from 'Primordial Interstitials', regrettable creations of curses or botched primordial magic that separates the soul from the body and causes the body to begin to decay into 'primordial mass', a chaotic material containing infinite possibility. They desperately and mindlessly seek out souls to consume in order to keep themselves cohesive and stave off their eventual decay into primordial mass, and create other interstitials by consuming any soul they can get, even those of animals.

Eventually, a 'siphon' forms from a particularly aged interstitial which draws spiritual energy from the spirit of the planet itself instead of needing to consume other living souls for it, and this siphon attains enormous amounts of magic limited only by the amount of power it can store in its body; as such, it then absorbs other interstitials to gain more magical storage and more power, and aaaall those horrible decaying goopy black magic zombies coalesce into one big shifting mass of flesh and enraged half-spirits (called shades) wielding elemental magic nonpareil due to the attained spirit mass.

They start out not too big, but the biggest ones, labelled Apocalyptic, could theoretically grow to the size of small towns; only one has ever existed, but was struck down before it could get any worse.

They fear nothing. They only consume.

To answer this, I'm going to have to give a little backstory.

In my world, there are four gods of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. They created everything in the universe, and they have a sibling dynamic. When they got down to making creatures to populate Earth (or the equivalent of), they had a competition to see who could make the most badass creature based on their state of matter. The god of solids created a giant tortoise that was bigger than a mountain.

Of course, once civilisation started to form, the giant tortoise couldn't stay. So, the gods buried it under a mountain in the middle of the sea. It'll get out eventually, but for now, that's where it is.

it's probably the creature of death who appears in the in-between realm and takes the souls of people to their final resting place. it kinda looks like a bird from afar but up close it's definitely…not, and it's not something the living want to encounter.

then there's the god of the desert, who is essentially the desert and all that live in it. (the same applies to god/desses of the ocean, sky, etc., but the god of the desert is the only one who has appeared in the novels so far in a large form.)

Out of my three universes, I can think of one from each.

My first universe, which is my main one, has a wide array of species and locales from whole different planets, and the most massive creature that is currently alive in this universe is a lovely lass by the name of "the Imperial Binding Mother". She the current reigning Empress of a species known as the Jiku, which are sentient, gelatinous aliens that resemble a wide array of jellyfish, and the reason she has been given her title is because most of her people believe she is the very thing that is keeping the planet from breaking in two. The planet isn't really breaking apart, but her people can't see any good reason for her to stay when she could be floating the cosmos and doing cool things.
She is so massive that all cities have been built upon her, and her body nearly encompasses the entire planet, which is a terrestrial planet the size of Mars.

The size champion of my second universe is the primordial force behind the creation of the only planet there. Her name is Vasimos, and though the form she uses to typically interact with others is only around seven feet tall, her true form reaches higher than the highest mountain on the planet, which is a mile or so taller than the Himalayas (her true form is somewhat akin to a monstrous, foliage covered dragon, though it looks a lot more mammalian, honestly).

The last, and by far the largest is from my third universe, and was a demon that fed off literal terror (at its peak). The creature was known simply as "the Dread", and was a incomprehensibly large, polymorphic mass of blackness that used its shape-shifting and other abilities to find the fears of people and make them scared so that it could absorb the energy produced by their fear. It was eventually destroyed, but when it was, it could've encompassed an entire solar system around the size of ours, if it hadn't been stopped (too bad that one of its offspring is currently still alive, and ready to destroy things as well).

For me it would be the Storm Elements. You can't see what the truly look like without a magic crystal. And if you even try, there's a high chance of your brain blowing up and worms trying to eat your guts.

I made something called Moonrays, basically they're giant manta rays that only come out at night and reflect the light of the moon. They also fly through the air, instead of in the water.

Probably the biggest creature in the world I am currently developing is called the Abyssal Plate Reaper. They're a very massive, and passive species of leviathan that happens to love sleeping in warm areas. Due to their size however, the only place they can really find a suitably warm area is deep within the cracks of tectonic plates. While they're not a threat to humans directly, they do pose a massive threat whenever they awaken from their slumber and shift, causing earthquakes.

They're rated as catastrophe-level monsters, and are advised to be put down whenever there is word of one emerging.

Mine would be Corophagia, just your run-of-the-mill giant serpent type thing.

There are these HUGE dragons that can barely hide anywhere in the modern society that my universe has, so they basically live in caves high up in the mountains. They're kind of tied with the whale-sized mermaids that live in the deeper parts of the ocean.

Definitely the Titan, Yngol. Explaining his size in the best way I know how would be a spoiler for my story, so I'm going to do it a bit differently. When he takes a step, whatever country he's in is in danger. He can defeat armies by stomping dozens of miles away from them. He is incomprehensibly large, really.

Right now the Maro-Wolf is the biggest animal. It looks like a wolf but can range anywhere from six to ten feet tall. It mainly eats meat, but some wolves are vegetarians. They mainly live in the wild but a few live in the cities with their blood brothers or sisters. These wolves aren't afraid of anything except for getting deserted by its family. They are most likely gray and white wolves but the wolf that my main character has is black.

Possibly Divine Dragons in Gems of the Stars. They are almost as large as blue whales. I'm wanting to make Zirkonitis's dragon a Divine Dragon but Fotia has a phoenix and Divine Dragons look like birds so idk.

The biggest creature in my world is essentially the world itself. A giant sea-turtle that carries a continent on her back across an endless ocean.

Norwegian gods, or the norns

Probably Valaquez. She is made of air so she can spread out across all of Earth.

The Guardians which are odd scaled creatures with kind of cow-like heads, giant wings, clawed feet, heavy tails and curled horns. They guard this sacred island off the continent thus their name. Imagine something that can wrap itself around a city and use its wings to completely cover it. About that big.

I straight-up stole the idea of Discworld for one of my personal stories, so A'Tuin the World Turtle