Sahuagin Baron (sah-WAH-gin BARE-uhn)
The Savage Lords of the Sea
The creature is a fish-like humanoid, with webbed feet and hands, gills, and a finned tail. It has additional webbing down its back, at the elbows, and where human ears would be. It has usually green, moist, scaly skin.
About one in every 216 hatchlings possessed four functional arms. Known as "barons", these four-armed mutations were often black, fading to gray in color. While sahuagin usually killed off defective hatchlings, they allowed these to live.
Sahuagin lived in underwater settlements that also had underground passages and tunnels, which connected the houses above the floor. Their society was strictly patriarcal, with a king ruling over princes, who in turn ruled over barons. Each baron ruled over a village, while a prince would dominate twenty villages and a king would govern an entire coastline. Kings would administer cities of several thousands inhabitants, and their palace were always much bigger than any of the other buildings in the area. Although they didn't rule, females had similar hierarchies among teachers, lore-keepers and priestesses.
Across fog-shrouded coasts or endless ocean swells, an ominous drone sounded on a conch shell chills the blood of all who hear it. This is the sound of the sahuagin hunting horn-a call to raid and battle. Coastal settlers refer to sahuagin as "sea devils," for sahuagin have no compassion in them, slaughtering the crews of ships and decimating coastal villages.
Devils of the Deep. Sahuagin are a predatory, piscine race that ventures from the ocean's black depths to hunt the creatures of the shallows and shore. Though they dwell in the deepest trenches of the ocean, sahuagin view the entire aquatic realm as their kingdom and the creatures in it as blood sport for their hunting parties.
The self-styled rulers of sahuagin ocean domains are massive mutant males that grow second sets of arms. They are terrible foes in battle, and all sahuagin bow down before these powerful barons.
Way of the Shark. Sahuagin worship the Shark god Sekolah. Only female sahuagin are deemed worthy of channeling the god's power, and priestesses hold tremendous sway in sahuagin communities.
Sahuagin are driven into a frenzy by the smell of fresh blood. As worshipers of Sekolah, they also have a special kinship with sharks, which they train as attack animals. Even untrained sharks recognize sahuagin as allies and don't prey on them.
Elven Enmity. The sahuagin might control the oceans if not for the presence of their mortal enemies, the aquatic elves. Wars between the two races have raged for centuries across the coasts and seas of the world, disrupting maritime trade and drawing other races into the bloody conflict.
So intense is sahuagin hatred for the aquatic elves that the sea devils have adapted to combat their ancient foes. A sahuagin born near enough to an aquatic Elf community can enter the world as a malenti-a sahuagin that physically resembles an aquatic Elf in every way. Sahuagin are Prone to mutation, but whether this rare phenomenon is a result of the wars between the sahuagin and the aquatic elves-or whether it preceded or even began the conflict-none can say.
The sahuagin put the malenti to good use as spies and assassins in aquatic Elf Cities and the societies of other creatures that pose a threat to sahuagin. The mere shadow of the malenti threat incites paranoia and suspicion among aquatic elves, whose resilience is weakened as the prelude to an actual sahuagin invasion.
“The village was empty, the seagulls were strangely quiet, and all we could hear was the surge of the sea.”
The Menagerie fought one in the hollow tree on Outding Refuge
Additional Information
Uses, Products & Exploitation
Harvesting
Instructions
Instructions: Because this creature is an Humanoid, the player should roll a Medicine Check using the DCs in the table below. On a success, the player is able to harvest the item. On a failure, the item cannot be harvested (either because the character is not skilled enough, or because the item is ruined). The DM should note that many of the items have an expiration, and can not be sold or used after the expiration has passed.
| DC | Item | Description | Value | Weight | Expiration | Crafting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Sahuagin Blood (3 vials) | A sahuagin has dark blue blood that smells of rancid seaweed. The blood is oxygen rich, and has many transformative properties, making it useful in the alchemy community. | 5 sp | 1 lb. | 7 days | Potion of the Sahuagin |
| 25 | Sahuagin Egg Clutch (pouch) | Only female sahuagin are deemed worthy of channeling the shark god Sekolah's power. It may be possible that a sahuagin priestess has various opaque, spongy egg sacs stuck to her back. The eggs are always unfertilized, as fertilized eggs are removed and taken to a hatchery. The eggs are a delicacy in some coastal cities, but are also used in potions and fertility rituals. | 5 sp | 1 lb. | 7 days | – |
This kind of creature may carry a sizeable amount of coins. This kind of creature may have a sizeable hoard. This character usually carries: 1 Trident, 1 Breastplate Random loot, generally very little. they can be carrying weapons and armor which could range in quality and abilities.
Possible Trinkets
Possible trinkets
1d20 Item Weight Value 1 1 waterskin of saltwater 5 lb. 2 sp 2 1 bundle of seaweed 4 lb. 3 cp 3 1 jar of earthworms 5 lb. 1 sp 4 1 large piece of frosted sea glass 1 lb. 5 cp 5 1 waterskin of fermented fish blood 5 lb. 7 sp 6 1 pouch of fish scales 2 lb. 5 cp 7 1 pouch of teeth and claws from various creatures 4 lb. 5 sp 8 1 pouch of barnacles 3 lb. 6 cp 9 1 crude stone carving of a shark 3 lb. 7 cp 10 1 necklace made of fish bones 1 lb. 1 sp 11 1 bracelet of shark teeth ½ lb. 1 sp 12 1 string lined with several sea elf ears -- -- 13 1 coral belt buckle, decorated with several small misshapen pearls 1 lb. 1 gp 14 1 torn net (unusable) 3 lb. 1 sp 15 1 rock painted with a wave crashing over a town 6 lb. 3 cp 16 1 coral pendant of a shark (the symbol of Sekolah) 1 lb. 5 sp 17 1 long stick with a starfish stuck on one end 3 lb. 3 cp 18 1 pink-yellow conch shell 4 lb. 5 sp 19 1 cracked tortoise shell painted with a bloody webbed handprint 7 lb. 3 sp 20 1d4 whole fish (spoils in 1 day) 2 lb. 5 cp
This creature produces 6-36 pieces of Harvested Meat, weight total of 24-144 lb. DC: 5, Expire: 1 day, Value: 12-72 sp The meat of many monsters is considered vile and distasteful. Monstrosities and aberrations, in particular, may have tainted blood or rancid tasting meat. Dungeon Master's discretion.
Sources
Source(s):
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- Sahuagin article at the Eberron Wiki, a wiki for the Eberron campaign setting.
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Scientific Name
Animalia, Materia, Humanoidus, Bipedia, Piscine, Sahuaginus (Baronius)
Origin/Ancestry
Humanoid (Monstrous Anthropormorphic | Piscine: Sahuagin)
Lifespan
about 100-120 years at most
Conservation Status
No conservation in most places as they are considered a pest or a threat to humans, and they are not under any protection. In fact, there are likely many regions where sahuagin would be considered a "kill on sight" order.
Average Height
7'
Average Weight
400 lbs.
Geographic Distribution
Related Ethnicities
5E Statistics
Sahuagin Baron
| Size | Large |
| Type | Humanoid |
| Tag(s) | Sahuagin |
| Alignment | Lawful Evil |
| Challenge Rating | Sahuagin (1/2) Priestess (2) Baron (5) |
General Information
| Patron Deity | Sekolah |
| Movement | Swimming |
| Vision | Darkvision, low-light vision |
| Diet | Carnivore |
| Language(s) | Abyssal, Aquan, Common, Sahuagin |
| Favored Climate | Warm |
| Favored Terrain | Aquatic |
Appearance
| Average Height | 7' |
| Average Weight | 400 lbs. |
| Skin Color(s) | Green |
| Eye Color(s) | Silvery Black |
| Typical Build | Muscular |
See Also: Sahuagin on Forgotten Realms Wiki