Editing Leviathan (section)

== History ==
=== Oslo, Norway ===
On June 9th, 1996, Leviathan appeared for the first time in Oslo, Norway. No other details are known about this encounter.<ref name="24.x eFirstAppearance">Oslo, June 9th, 1996.  Leviathan. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref>

=== Sydney, Australia ===
Leviathan attacked Sydney, Australia on January 18th, 1998. The city was destroyed, but was received a good amount of international funding and support, which allowed them to rebuild. The city became known as "The Harbor City," providing shelter and support to others after rebuilding.<ref name="Redit77">Sydney was destroyed but would've been rebuilt. Other areas that suffered direct or incidental damage received a great deal of international funding and support... which declined as time went on.<br><br>Sydney was early enough in the grand scheme of things to get some attention, before the decline & the crisis fatigue of the world at large. In the Wormverse notes, it doubled down on its nickname the 'The Harbor City' in that it gratefully received the international support, rebuilt, and tried to transform the negative into a positive by providing shelter and support to others (That is, safe harbor). The good was a great deal of national pride (and international pride in the country). In terms of the bad, well, I actually wrote the notes before the whole political shift and the voice xenophobia has found in politicians in recent years, but you could see new Sydney as a kind of microcosm of that sentiment. While it offered shelter to the displaced and the needy, it also was argued to be a shelter and haven for crime and shady types looking for a footing.<br><br>Dunno if you're far enough along that you can't use that note, but such is my jotted-down notes in the Worm bible, re: Australia. (I'll leave Canberra aside) - [https://redd.it/68klk7 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

=== Kyushu, Japan ===
Leviathan's sixth attack was on the night of November 2nd, 1999, and continued into the morning of the day after. Leviathan surfaced at the southernmost Japanese island of Kyushu, swamping the region with tidal waves from every direction and disrupting prearranged evacuation efforts.<ref name="kyushu">“Kyushu, the night of November second and the morning of the third, 1999.  His sixth appearance.  Nine and a half million killed when the region was swamped with tidal waves from every direction while Leviathan disrupted prearranged evacuation attempts.  Nearly three million evacuees rendered homeless, a nation sundered. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref> The battle finally ended when [[Lung]] fought Leviathan to a standstill, with Leviathan fracturing Kyushu's landmass as he retreated.<ref name="22.y e16">The landmass disappeared beneath the pair of them, the shards of land drawn beneath the waves, and Lung was now fighting Leviathan in the monster’s home ground.<br><br>For an instant, he thought he would die.  But Leviathan, wounded, broke away and fled into the depths.<br><br>Lung only sank, too dense to float, growing wearier by the second as his power left him, the fight over.<br><br>He’d expected a feeling of satisfaction, but he knew he hadn’t delivered a killing blow, that he had been a long, long way from it, though he’d done more damage than anyone had in years.<br><br>His enemy couldn’t be killed.  Lung had become something more terrifying than the Endbringer, but there had been nobody to see.  None of the public to recognize him, to respect and fear him.<br><br>He sank, feeling a kind of despair.  Too tired to move, he touched bottom. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> The attack was incredibly devastating, with nine and a half million killed, and nearly three million evacuees left homeless.<ref name="kyushu"/> Afterward, Japan was crippled, preventing it from becoming a world power and leaving it dependent on international assistance even twelve years after the attack.<ref name="15.5 c1">You have the events that left the world reeling: Lausanne, Hawaii, Kyushu, Newfoundland, Moscow, Sydney. The attacks that left major areas uninhabitable or unrecoverable, with wide-reaching effects on the rest of the country/region/world. In this setting, for example, Japan isn’t a world power and it’s still dependent on international assistance 12 years after Leviathan’s visit to Kyushu.<br><br>But even there, where do you say, “Ok, that’s the sum total of the damage done”? The disaster at Kyushu, the number of refugees seeking living space/work and the pressures on the rest of Asia’s pacific border might have led to some more unrest and tension. Some friction, some ‘small’ wars, infighting and intermingling. Refugees and immigrants. Many settle in major cities across America because President Bradley’s Preservation Act gives them a hand in getting on their feet. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/colony-15-5/#comment-5639 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Colony 15.5]]</ref>

=== Hyderabad, India ===
No details on this battle were revealed except that it took place on July 6th, 2001.<ref>Hyderabad, July 6th, 2001.  Leviathan. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> An intriguing fact is that Hyderabad is over 217 miles inland from the Indian Ocean, making an assault from the water difficult. However, using existing rivers, there is a possible route to the city from the ocean. Leviathan would have had to make his way northward through the Krishna River and the Musi River, the latter of which is barely 10 feet deep in some places, requiring a disproportionate amount of effort just to attack one city.

=== Newfoundland, Canada ===
On May 9th, 2005, Leviathan began an attack on Newfoundland, Canada. Leviathan bombarded the island with incredible pressure beneath the water level, cracking the shelf of land holding it up and sinking the island, killing half a million people,<ref name="8.2 e8">“Newfoundland,” he spoke.<br><br>I knew exactly what he was speaking of, and mouthed the date as he spoke it, “May ninth, 2005.  Nearly half a million dead.  The Canadian island simply ''gone'', after the shelf of land holding it up cracked in the face of what we now understand were incredible pressures beneath the water level. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref> including [[Andrew Richter]].<ref>From her vantage point in Vancouver, she had watched as the island crumbled and Andrew Richter died.  As authorities had dredged the waters for corpses, they uncovered his body and matched it to dental records. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/interlude-10-5-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref> Since this point, Leviathan's potential targets were classified as hard, meaning heroes could stand their ground and gradually wear him down, and soft, meaning he must be attacked quickly and not given a chance to build up his attacks.<ref>He paused.  “We have since classified the locations the Endbringers target as either hard targets or soft targets.  The hard battlefields are where we stand our ground, buy time, wear him down.  The soft ones are locations where we cannot afford to do this.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref>

=== [[Brockton Bay]] ===
At the end of [[Buzz 7.12]], a program designed to predict Endbringer attacks anticipated Leviathan's arrival in Brockton Bay. Air raid sirens were activated to alert the public and allow them to evacuate to the local Endbringer shelters. Meanwhile, every major Protectorate and Wards group on call began arriving via [[Strider|teleportation]] along with a few villains. They joined local capes, including [[Skitter]] and the [[Undersiders]].