Bestial fiends native to the reeking seas of the Abyss, skulvyns are evil-natured predators who delight in picking off the weak and defenseless. They take great pleasure in toying with their prey before finishing them off.
A skulvyn is a reptilian creature, roughly the size and shape of a crocodile, with a streamlined lizardlike body and a head like a many-fanged serpent. It possesses webbed limbs, but propels itself through the water mainly with its four tails, long finned appendages with razor-sharp spines.
Skulvyns possess a vicious bite, but their favored weapons are their tails, which inflict bleeding wounds. Their most insidious ability is a magical aura that inflicts other creatures with agonizing slowness. Skulvyns prefer to aggressively attack their victims with their tails, then swim just far enough away so their prey is within their aura, watching with glee as the slowed creatures bleed to death.
Skulvyns can be found in lakes and oceans throughout the Abyss, but are most common in Dagon’s domain, the demonic ocean of Ishiar. Skulvyns are not true demons, lacking most demons’ magical abilities, and are easily bullied into servitude by more powerful creatures like hezrous and wastriliths. Slow-witted brutes, skulvyns do as their masters order as long as they receive plenty of food in return–preferably alive and kicking.
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