Darkmantle
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| Dungeons & Dragons creature | |
|---|---|
| Darkmantle | |
| Alignment | |
| Type | Magical beast |
| Source books | |
| First appearance | |
| Image | Wizards.com image |
| Stats | OGL stats |
In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the darkmantle is a strange magical beast which lives in caves.
[edit] Description
A darkmantle resembles something akin to a dark brown colored squid, roughly 4 feet long, with webs of membrane between the tentacles. Its part is shelled, and it has a muscular "foot" on the top of it. Though darkmantles have eyes, they "see" by using echolocation, much the way a bat does. Using a mixture of telekinetic ability and the flapping of its webbed tentacles, it can perform low level flying.
[edit] Habitat and society
The darkmantle attacks by attaching itself to the ceiling of a cave and disguising itself as a stalactite. It waits until someone is underneath, and then drops down, wrapping its tentacles around the head of the victim. It smothers them, and then proceeds to eat them from a mouth located under its head. Darkmantles also have an offensive/defensive ability in the ability to suck the light out of an area.
Darkmantles cannot speak.
They are neutral in alignment.
[edit] References
- Richards, Johnathan M. "The Ecology of the Darkmantle." Dragon #275 (Paizo Publishing, 2000).
