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QUAGGOTH

Meaium humanoid (quaggoth), chaotic neutral

Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points 45 (6d8 + 18)
Speed 30ft., climb 30ft.

STR

17 (+3)

DEX

12 (+1)

Skills Athletics +5

CON

16 (+3)

Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities poisoned

INT

6 (-2)

WIS

12 (+1)

Senses darkvision 120ft., passive Perception 10
Languages Undercommon
Challenge 2 (450 XP)

CHA

7 (- 2)

Wounded Fury. While it has 10 hit points or fewer, the
quaggoth has advantage on attack rolls. In addition, it deals an
extra 7 (2d6) damage to any target it hits with a melee attack.

ACTIONS

Multiattack. The quaggoth makes two claw attacks.

Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 6 (ld6 + 3) slash ing damage.

QUAGGOTH

Savage and territorial, quaggoths climb the chasms

of the Underdark. They maul their foes in a frenzy,

becoming even more murderous in the face of death.

Quaggoth Origins. Quaggoths were never an

enlightened species, but they were not a lways the brutal

Underdark denizens they are today. In a distant age,

quaggoth tribes dwelled upon the surface as nocturnal

arboreal hunters, possessing their own language and

culture. When elves appeared in the mortal realm, they

clashed with the quaggoths, eventually driving them to

near extinction. Only by fleeing deep into the Underdark

did the quaggoths survive.

As they passed the ages deep beneath the world, the

quaggoths' fur lost its color and their vision adapted to

the darkness, even as the constant danger and weird

magic of their new realm transformed them. Turning

increasingly brutal and savage, they ate whatever food

they could find-and when they could not find it, they

preyed on each other. As cannibalism became part of

their culture, their past was abandoned.

Servants of the Drow. The ancient enmity between

quaggoths and surface elves makes them easy converts

to the dark elf cause. In recent years, the drow have

taken an interest in breeding quaggoths, encouraging

their ferocity while strengthening their obedience.

Wealthy drow houses have legions of quaggoths at

their command. Even worse, the drow cultivate the

quaggoths' hatred of the elves by leading them on

surface raids against known elven enclaves.

Thonots. Some quaggoths absorb psionic energy that

suffuses certain parts of the Underdark. When a tribe

discovers that one of its own has inherited such powers,

they press it into the role of tribal shaman, or thonot.

A thonot keep a tribe's lore and ensures its superiority

against enemies. A thonot that fails the tribe is slain and

devoure d in a cannibalistic ritual, in the hope that its

power passes to another more worthy quaggoth.

Poison Immunity. Generations of hunting venomous

subterranean creatures and perpetual exposure to the

molds and fungi that grow in the depths have forced

quaggoths to adapt immunities to poisons of all kinds.

VARIANT: QUAGGOTH THONOT

A quaggoth thonot is a normal quaggoth with a challenge

rating of 3 (700 XP) and the following additional trait.

Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The quaggoth's innate

spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 11 ). The

quaggoth can innately cast the following spells, requiring

no components:

At will: feather fall, mage hand (the hand is invisible)

1 fday each: cure wounds, enlargejreduce, heat metal,