Chapter One
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fishmen
(Creatures of Arelith touched by the Far Realm)
Beholder
A mass of eyes attached to tentacle stalks, Beholders are pretty much Far Realms 101. They are able to utilize strange and alien magic, have two minds constantly at war with each other, worship ancient and eerie gods - and speak their own language, which more likely than not sounds jarring and eldritch to regular people. There are many types of Beholders - from Gauths to Eyes of the Deep and Bloodkiss - all which are at home in the Underdark.
Cloaker
Worshipers of Elder Evils and deadly in even small numbers, Cloakers utilize stealth subsonics, and their dark black wings to attack, and have the power to make an opponent feel anything from slight nausea to insanity. Another Underdark creature, they were thought to have built the shadowy city Ikammu.
Gibberling
Yes- those mutated ratbeasts lingering just outside of the gates. With sporadic patches of fur, maddened eyes, and an ingenious method of breeding, their touch to the psionics and insanity of the Far Realm is chiefly commanded by a Brood Gibberling. The Brood Gibberling will ‘birth’ a clan of Gibberlings by spawning larvae beneath their skin, and passing it on to another. They must remain near the corruption of the Far Realm, so they will often bite another of their kind in order to continue the race - the other will then travel somewhere dark and damp to give a litter of Gibberslugs time to erupt through their skin.
Kuo-toa
Straight out of H.P Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth, Kuo-toa are essentially fish men chased underground, who now make their home amongst the denizens of the Underdark. They are bipedal - in certain lights they may even look human, but their faces is where that similarity ends - their gills, rubbery lips, buggy, wide eyes and scales - as well as webbed hands and feet - reek of inhumanity. Most worship the sea goddess Blibdoolpoolp, but a few worship Dagon, that Dagon, the Great Old One.
Mind Flayer
Tentacled beasts employing psionics with names such as Yharaskrik, these Far Realms spawn are probably the most well-known of all. Political at times, sadistic always, even the most noble of Ulitharid are beneath the Elder Brain - an aberration containing all the dead Mind Flayer brains in the community. At home in the Underdark, even Drow houses have come to respect the magical abilities of the Illithid, and Alhoon are a common and revered sight in and around Andunor.
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fishmen
(Creatures of Arelith touched by the Far Realm)
Beholder
A mass of eyes attached to tentacle stalks, Beholders are pretty much Far Realms 101. They are able to utilize strange and alien magic, have two minds constantly at war with each other, worship ancient and eerie gods - and speak their own language, which more likely than not sounds jarring and eldritch to regular people. There are many types of Beholders - from Gauths to Eyes of the Deep and Bloodkiss - all which are at home in the Underdark.
Cloaker
Worshipers of Elder Evils and deadly in even small numbers, Cloakers utilize stealth subsonics, and their dark black wings to attack, and have the power to make an opponent feel anything from slight nausea to insanity. Another Underdark creature, they were thought to have built the shadowy city Ikammu.
Gibberling
Yes- those mutated ratbeasts lingering just outside of the gates. With sporadic patches of fur, maddened eyes, and an ingenious method of breeding, their touch to the psionics and insanity of the Far Realm is chiefly commanded by a Brood Gibberling. The Brood Gibberling will ‘birth’ a clan of Gibberlings by spawning larvae beneath their skin, and passing it on to another. They must remain near the corruption of the Far Realm, so they will often bite another of their kind in order to continue the race - the other will then travel somewhere dark and damp to give a litter of Gibberslugs time to erupt through their skin.
Kuo-toa
Straight out of H.P Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth, Kuo-toa are essentially fish men chased underground, who now make their home amongst the denizens of the Underdark. They are bipedal - in certain lights they may even look human, but their faces is where that similarity ends - their gills, rubbery lips, buggy, wide eyes and scales - as well as webbed hands and feet - reek of inhumanity. Most worship the sea goddess Blibdoolpoolp, but a few worship Dagon, that Dagon, the Great Old One.
Mind Flayer
Tentacled beasts employing psionics with names such as Yharaskrik, these Far Realms spawn are probably the most well-known of all. Political at times, sadistic always, even the most noble of Ulitharid are beneath the Elder Brain - an aberration containing all the dead Mind Flayer brains in the community. At home in the Underdark, even Drow houses have come to respect the magical abilities of the Illithid, and Alhoon are a common and revered sight in and around Andunor.