First appearance: S1E6 — Belly of the Beast — Viago v Tetra · watch it on YouTube
The Siren’s Nautilus looks like a sunken, overgrown ship. It is actually a living creature, and the Grandmaster’s “precious beast.” She sends it out to scour the seas and claim whatever falls to its death there. In S1E6 — Belly of the Beast — Viago v Tetra, she turned its insides into an arena. The champions fought in the belly of something that breathes, moves and digests.
Description
The champions arrived in the ship’s ballroom, sealed inside an air bubble the Grandmaster had made for them. The room is strangely lovely. The floor is luminescent purple tile trimmed with pearls along the edges, and puddles of seawater lie across it. The floor is also electrified like a jellyfish, so anything touching it skin to skin is in danger. There are exits at both ends of the ballroom, though nobody arriving knows where they lead.
The bubble is the only thing between the champions and the deep. If they step outside or pierce the walls, they “might find yourself swimming with the fishes,” and the Grandmaster made clear that nobody can swim to the surface. Once the guests are settled, the ship begins to move and breathe around them, which reminds everyone whose body they are standing in.
Deeper inside lies the stomach, which is far less pleasant than the ballroom. Its floor is acid and its walls are slime. Mummified sailors line the chamber, the remains of earlier catches. At its heart is a glowing green fountain or pit, and a gelatinous cube lives in it.
History
The Nautilus made its debut as an arena in Season 1. The Grandmaster welcomed Viago and Tetra into its ballroom for their Deathmatch. She explained, with obvious affection, that the ship was a living being they were now inside:
“This ship is a living being that you are inside of… my precious beast. I use it to scour the seas and claim whatever happens to fall to its death.”
She laid out the dangers of the electric floor, the fragile bubble and the unknown exits. Then she sent them off with one last warning:
“Be careful. This ship may bite back.”
Beyond the pearl-trimmed ballroom, the beast’s insides held the acid and slime of its stomach, where the gelatinous cube waited.
Notable Figures
- The Grandmaster: owner of the Nautilus, who calls it her “precious beast.”
- Viago: one of the two champions who fought inside it.
- Tetra: the other champion who fought inside it.