#vargouille

Once believed to be disembodied heads, the Penanggalan is actually a tropical member of the Draculaidae family. With their frontal glands, large, bright in color, caruncles and their wild flowing plumes, it is easy to see how weary travels might confuse them as such. 

Both males and females posses the frontal glands located on their back to communicate across vast stretches of their jungle territory. The bright red caruncles of males are also used to communicate in the dense green. Scaring away rival males and attracting would be mates. 

On the left, the Korred! 2-4 foot (0.6 - 1.4 m) earthen fey with magical hair! Very little sexual dimorphism btw, EVERYONE gets long beards and hair. They have innate magic like Otto's Irresistible Dance and Stone Shape (mold stone into whatever you want), and that rope is completely under its control. Self-tying rope, soft as the hair its made from but more durable than steel cable! They're mostly solitary, but are known to occasionally party with satyrs or hang out with creatures of elemental earth. If you get it in a social mood they're actually carefree and boisterous...just don't try to cut thier hair. These things are supernaturally strong when touching the ground, like "stronger than the average elephant" level.

⚔️ Vargouille enemy token on Patreon

This little scamp has a special ability named Vargouille's Kiss: the vargouille forces a kiss on an unwilling target. Once the victim is infected, they start fighting against a disease. If they fail the saving throws they die...

...and then tentacles sprout from their heads while the ears transform into wings that begin to flap violently until the head detaches from the body and flies away as a new vargouille. FIN.

Beware the many dangers of the Undersigil! "Vargouille" illustration for @Wizards_DnD's Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse. (Hardcore fans might recognize someone familiar 😉)

King of Swords. Art by Jon Sacha, from Goblins & Gardens.

The Vargouille: King of Kisses. This little pot of gold at the end of the rainbow has won many a beauty pageant in the infinite layers of the Abyss! But don’t let their good looks fool you, they’ve got the wit and the wisdom to back it up. In fact, one of the best kept secrets of the Vargouilles is the extensive system of libraries they manage in Tarterus. Over the ages their have been a few brave souls that journeyed to the Prime Material plane in order to do the dangerous job of topside research. But it’s all worth it when you consider the meticulous catalogs of information stored in the Vargouilles’ Infernal Libraries. Gorgeous little experts they are indeed!