The Quacken

The Quacken is the most terrifying denizen of the Isla de Oro. Bound to Davy Jones but contracted to serve the Lords and Captains of the Isle, the fearsome creature is deployed in the most dire of circumstances, when the enemies of the crew prove particularly resilient, or in great enough numbers to be a threat to the Isle itself. It is, without fail, the last thing these unfortunate souls ever see.

BACKSTORY
The origins of the Quacken are, oddly enough, immortalized in a nursery rhyme. The tale of  The Five Little Ducks  is where he begins, and the true story ends after the first stanza. For he was the first little rubber duck to swim away, and contrary to the happy ending of the rhyme, he never came back. Instead, he swam through some mysterious sludge in the ocean, and began to mutate, growing in size and sprouting tentacles. As he became a monstrosity, he developed a hunger for the ships and sailors of the Royal Navy, and he set out to sate that hunger.

This drew the attention of Davy Jones, who approached the beast just after one of its very first kills. Mad with blood rage, the Quacken struck out at Davy, but Jones subdued him in an epic battle, resoundingly reinforcing his status as Lord of the Deep. The beast knew humility for the first time, and willingly bowed to the only creature that had ever bested him, or would ever. Formalities complete, Davy turned the Quacken loose to do as he wished, provided that the monster would come to his call at any hour, to annihilate his chosen targets.

Although the Quacken prefers assailing the ships of the Crown, he does not limit himself only to them. Any vessel that is about when his hunger is roused becomes an unlucky target, and so it came to pass that one day, a pirate ship came into his sights as it lay reefed and dormant above. Not so dormant, it turned out: the crew were sentencing one of their own to be planked at sea. Thus on alert, the crew turned and put up a fight as the Quacken rose and tore their ship asunder. He took a harpoon in the beak during the fight, and when it was over, only the marooned mate remained alive. Instead of swimming away in terror, the sailor reached up and pulled that harpoon from the monster's beak, and it was then that the beast first remembered affection and companionship from its younger days, before displacement and mutation had hardened him. He carried the sailor - none other than Flintlock - safely to the nearest port, and has maintained his bond with him ever since.

At Flintlock's request, the Quacken has agreed to answer the call of all the Lords and Captains of the Isle in their hour of need, provided Davy Jones does not need him first. But the goals of Jones and the pirates of the Isle are consistently aligned anyway, and the opportunity to mangle British ships and colonies appears to be its own reward for the beast.

The Island

The Town

The Council of Bones

The Fleet

The Captains

The Officers

The Nightwatch

Yarrbot

Davy Jones

Della Rose

The Quacken

The Library

The Hall of Legends