Couatl
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| Dungeons & Dragons creature | |
|---|---|
| Couatl | |
| Alignment | |
| Type | Outsider |
| Source books | Quetzalcoat |
| First appearance | |
| Image | Wizards.com image |
| Stats | OGL stats |
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the couatl is a large serpentine creature, and considered a native outsider.[1]
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[edit] Ecology
Couatls are known throughout the Dungeons & Dragons universe for their beauty, magic, and virtue. Due to their intelligence and devotion to good, they are worshipped by people who inhabit the same area as them.
[edit] Environment
Coutal inhabit warm jungles.
[edit] Typical physical characteristics
A couatl resembles a long, feathered serpent with a pair of rainbow-feathered wings that allow it to fly. They are around 12 feet (3.5 meters) in length, with a wingspan of 15 feet (4.5 meters). They weigh around 1,800 pounds (882 kilograms). Their powerful minds are capable of great psionic might.
[edit] Alignment
A couatl is always lawful good.
[edit] Society
[edit] Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms
Couatls live solitarily, in pairs, or in flights of 3-6 individuals.[2] Their intellect is above that of most humans, and, although they do not use weapons and armour as a human might, they often own treasure. They typically speak Common, Draconic and Celestial.
Coutal are highly dedicated to an asexual deity named Jazirian, though they have no true priests among their ranks, as Jazirian grants each couatl enough power and wisdom of their own.[3] People living in the same area as couatl recognise this, and sometimes worship them as deities. Being outsiders, they hail from another plane,[4] and can be summoned. The spell Summon Monster IX can summon a couatl.[5]
[edit] Eberron
Much as above, except that they were the principal opponents of the Rakshasa Rajahs, and most of them are now contained within the Silver Flame.
[edit] Couatl in other media
Couatl can also refer to a Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Naga flying unit in the Warcraft universe.[6]
[edit] Creative origins
The name 'couatl' is a reference to Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec god, sometimes called 'The Feathered Snake'.[7]
[edit] Notes
- ^ [1] Couatl page from the D20 System Reference Document
- ^ Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition Monster Manual
- ^ [2] Page from EnWorld.org about Jazirian
- ^ Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition Monster Manual
- ^ Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition Player's Handbook
- ^ [3] A BlizzPlanet.com article about Naga Couatl and Snapdragons
- ^ DeVarque, Aardy. Literary Sources of D&D. Retrieved on 2007-02-23.
[edit] References
- Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual (TSR, 1977).
- Eldritch Wizardry (1976)
- MC1 - Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989)
- Monstrous Manual (1993)
- D&D Miniatures: Deathknell set #2 (2005)
