#merrenoloth

VS MERRENOLOTH

First, the Orc Claw of Luthic! Over 6 ft (1.8 m) tall and naturally beefy, enhanced by a love of fighting and wrestling, then further enhanced by the divine power of D&D's best Orcish diety. They're caretakers, healers, and teachers for the tribe's young. They can create food and drink, make you perform better, heal your wounds, and make you twice as durable. Look at that fertility priestess, you will need to be twice as durable. The Great Mother would fight with her bare teeth and claws before she let anyone touch her children, and she gives them the same power with curses and iron-hard claws. And Mama Luthic accepts all who live up to her code, so if you're only into guys you can still go here.

So merrenoloths.

Merrenoloths are my favourite monsters from D&D.

Merrenoloths are a band of yugoloths, neutral evil fiends that live in the lower planes between devils and demons. In 5e lore yugoloths are fiendish mercenaries, always looking for the best opportunity to make the most reward possible, hiring themselves out to other fiends and fighting in the blood war between devils and demons, siding with whichever side is paying the most at the time

Merrenoloths like boats.

Merrenoloths fucking love boats. You can make a contract to hire a merrenoloth and have them captain a boat on the material plane, and they will love that boat so much. That boat will gain supernatural abilities, that’s how much they love that boat.

And officially they’re evil, but literally all they care about is boats. They don’t even like fighting. A merrenoloth “specifies in its contracts that it is under no obligation to fight. A merrenoloth’s first duty is always to its vessel.”

Wait. This isn't supposed to be her. The main tournament entries got scrambled into the loser's bracket...fuck. Well I guess we're here now!

On the left is the Merrenoloth, the Charonadaemon, "The In-between." These are the yugoloth boatman of the River Styx! or any other river you need them for. 5 ft (1.5 m), can cause fear with a glance, and has magic for mind manipulation and wind/water control. So always a nice cooling breeze! They are cunning, can telepathically speak with anyone, are about as neutral of a fiend as you'll ever find, and have supernatural control over their boat! They don't fight unless forced, they don't want to talk, you make a deal and they fill it. Hey, sometimes that strict professionalism is exactly what you're after!

On the right is the Star Spawn Larva* Mage This is a warlock of eldritch power merging with a herald of the Far Realms. A magical person-sized sentient mass of star-stuff and unknown worms. It has magic to magically dominate minds and can create a floating spectral hand. This is an ALARMINGLY intelligent entity from beyond the stars largely composed of mysterious wriggling creatures. Yeah, it's stronger than an orc and can take hits better than most dragons, but you knew your answer to this the second it crossed your screen.