Olhydrix Hag
From within the half-submerged ruins comes a creature borne of a
demon’s nightmare: Rising over 10 feet, this creature is a horrid amalgam
of a giant squid and a humanoid. The head, arms and upper torso
are vaguely female; needle-like teeth line her voluptuous mouth and
her eyes are white and pupil-less. White hair spills from her head in
flowing tresses, clinging wetly to her body. The creature’s lower body
tapers into that of a giant squid; its black skin glistens as it pulls itself
forward on powerful tentacles that could crush a man in an instant.
Even the earliest scripts of the merfolk detail a sect of female
aquatic elves who had given themselves over to the evil gods of
the deep. Calling themselves the ‘Brides of Dagon’ these elves consorted
with Shrroth demons (Tome of Horrors II). Their frequent
and vile unions soon corrupted the elves, warping their very bodies:
Their skin grew oily black and their eyes lost their pupils.
Their lustrous green hair bleached white, like coral in the sun and
within their voluptuous mouths grew rows of needle-like teeth.
Worse, their lower bodies tapered and twisted beyond recognition,
becoming squid-like. These creatures were the first olhydrix; foul
hags of the deep.
As a race borne of demons, olhydrix hags have no real place in nature.
They use other species to protect and propagate their race
through coercion, enchantment and dark magic. It is possible for
an olhydrix hag to mate with all manner of humanoid races; their
offspring are always an olhydrix hag. After mating, an olhydrix
hag will lay young larvae in a special spawning pool. When a humanoid
creature is immersed in an olhydrix hag’s spawning pool
it may contract Abyssal Ascariasis:
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