Lmao I wish. Since Wano is over now too, who the fuck was that lurking legend too?
Unless Oda didnt mean Wano? I'm guessing he meant Xebec maybe? This message might have been before he revealed Xebec maybe? Idk otherwise lol. Can't be Weevil surely?
Knowing current Oda though, may as well be the "Twerking Legend" now instead, SMH lol:
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Laboon had the One Piece all along?! GODA!



I did wonder if that whale statue would ever have any greater significane, I've seen whales deified as some sort of mythological beasts/gods in some games, it might be a thing in Japanese mythology too maybe? We've had references to Moby Dick in One Piece already ofc and also Pinocchio?
Oh shit....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bake-kujira
The Bake-kujira (化鯨, literally "ghost whale") is a mythical Japanese yōkai (ghost, phantom, or strange apparition) from western Japan.
It is supposedly a large ghostly skeleton whale and is said to be accompanied by strange birds and fish.
Legends
In one story, a fisherman tries to catch it with his harpoon but the harpoon sailed right through it and the Bake-kujira floated away. In other stories people say that the Bake-kujira brings a curse and general misfortune to the area where it is spotted.
I remember a storyline based on this in Skies of Arcadia...Baten Kaitos had whale gods or something IIRC, Pokemon has a legendary whale pokemon or so (Kyogre?), Zelda: Skyward Sword had a whale god or w/e too?