I love the whales in this game . I think they ' re supposed to be partly basted on a load of real animals like megalodon the giant shark and some marine reptiles from the age of the dinosaurs , but they mostly seem to be inspired by Livyatan melvillei , an extinct type of sperm whale named after the author of moby dick that was supposed to have the biggest teethmsW 41 DSiMJQT 1 RhouYZiIAAAAAAAAMsoLezM 08 kU 1 Vos 1600 L i v y a t anSkullDegrootstemuilooit 012 . jpg of any animal ever . It also would fit the theme because the world of Dishonoured seems to sort of have a lot of elements of a steampunky oilpunk ? version of late ' age of enlightenment ' and maybe a bit after into the 19 th century Europe , and irl sperm whales were hunted almost to extinction in that time period for their spermaceti oil .