Dweller in the Deep
The Dweller in the Deep is a legendary aquatic monstrosity that rises once every 13 years to cause chaos and destruction along the coast. The juvenile is approximately 120 ft. in diameter, has four large tentacles and a large central maw. It is also capable of strong long-range psychic attacks. If not driven back, entire towns have been lost as it hungrily tears them from the coast. When the time is right and its return is near, it can be summoned for battle by singing the following sea shanty:
In the night on sails of old
Atop the winds of water cold
Deep within the dark abyss
Lies a beast asleep in bliss
When storms abound and lightning calls
The sea she boils and darkness falls
It wakes, it roars, writhes and creeps
While rising from the briny deep
Woe betide all creatures be,
Hear them scream, watch them flee!
The great consumer, the eater of worlds
It searches, it grasps, maw unfurled
For those who dare to sail on seas
Ruled by a beast, that we name thee
The Dweller of the Deep!
According to legend there is only ever one Dweller at a time. When it rose most recently in 1491, the Monster Squad and Captain Tr'Alik discovered that the elder Dweller had died some time recently, and that the juvenile had risen. The elder Dweller had been killed in a battle with nine Mind Flayers and some other larger creature.
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