The Hydra

(a.k.a. The doom of Garik, The beast of the swamp)

This powerful creature is an Awnshegh and as such is a creature that demands great respect and fear.
The Hydra is thought by most scholars to have once been a simple crocodile, which became one of the awnsheghlien after committing bloodtheft on a scion of Azrai. Some local scholars claim that the Hydra was one of the original great beasts of Azrai given godly power by the Shadow before the War of the Shadow to harass and weaken the human tribes whilst the Shadow conquered Aduria and marshaled his forces in the south.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

The Hydra appears like a huge crocodile 21 feet long, with  humanoid heads growing from its neck along with several arms and hands. From time to time a blister appears on its body which in time bursts to emit a hydrakin.

Body Features

The Hydra is, in truth, a monstrous reptilian creature with multiple heads and a voracious appetite. It was once a large crocodile that was infected with the taint of Azrai at some point after the fall at Deismaar. It grew to larger proportions and consumed nearly everything it encountered. Each time it consumed a blooded scion who came to slay it, that scion's head sprouted out of its gargantuan body, now linked with the Hydra's brain.

Facial Features

The main head is a large crocodile head. The other heads of it's victims retain most of what they look like, making this creature more horrifying to look at.

Special abilities

• Blindsight
• Life Detection
• Unreadable Thoughts
• Fear
• Invulnerability
• Alterness
• Bloodform

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

While it may have started off as a dumb beast, as it has absorbed more prey it has become more intelligent and cunning.

Social

Family Ties

This monstrosity has a strange offspring called the Hydrakin.  However, this offspring is not created through a mate as the Hydra has asexual reproduction. What it eats is sometimes reproduced as a composite with traits of the Hydra and other prey. Whenever prey is eaten, there is a 2% chance that it will be disgorged as a hydrakin.

Social Aptitude

The Hydra keeps to itself, mostly staying in an abandoned watchtower called Waterfjord Tower near the golf. However, there is no guarantee it is in the tower and is an excellent ambush predator.

Current Location

Harrowmarsh

Species

Crocodile

Conditions

• Awnshegh

Height

21 feet long

Ruled Locations

• Harrowmarsh