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Description
Uncovered in 2011 by Inuit whalers off the west coast of Greenland, this immense vessel of gold and glass was found amidst the bones of over 500 dead whales. According to the testimony of the Captain of the Inuit ship, the whalers were tracking an immense whale when all of a sudden it disappeared without a trace, “as if the sea itself swallowed it whole.” Diving down into the icy waters the Captain was horrified to find an immense graveyard of dead and decomposing whales, sunken ships, and, “barnacles… everywhere I looked were barnacles… sinisterly glowing barnacles. Glowing… pulsing like a heartbeat, like a beacon, drawing the whales here, to this place… to die.”
As documented above, the immense vessel, depicting the great aquatic god Dagon, is covered from top to bottom in a strange and to date unknown form of bioluminescent marine life. Lovecraft scholars believe this previously unknown species of glowing barnacle to be a primitive, albeit dangerous form of life from the undersea city of Y'ha-nthlei, home of the legendary ‘Deep Ones.’
Used as a vessel to store varying forms of important religious and mythos related artifacts from the city of Innsmouth, this reliquary was believed to have been used in rituals, either fertility or sacrificial, by the Esoteric Order of Dagon during the mid to late 19th- century.
The vessel has sustained damage to its gold topper, but is still in remarkable shape after being buried in the whale graveyard for over a century and a half. Upon the removal of the topper 100 gold coins from the city of Innsmouth were found within.
