11/4/2022 0 Comments False hydra![]() The song of the False Hydra gives it more effective protection than something simple like invisibility, but it isn’t without its weaknesses and drawbacks. Talk about a peeping Tom, huh? An Overbearing Song Against Fragile Minds Due to the nature of its song, a head of the creature can even be staring at a player character through the window, and they wouldn’t even notice. In a cruel twist of the gods, the only rest people receive from this song is whilst they’re losing the ones they love, as the False Hydra can’t sing and feast at the same time.Īs the False Hydra consumes more people, it becomes larger and is able to sprout more heads, allowing it to reach further across communities to consume even more people, in a horrific cycle. Whilst it sings, any creature who can hear the False Hydra’s song will ignore seeing it, as well as ignore any consequences of its presence, which becomes eerie quickly when a consequence is the devouring of locals.Īs the False Hydra drags people underground to devour, the song causes the remaining populace to simply forget they existed, explaining away empty homes, vacancies at places of work, and even the belongings of spouses people forgot they even married. At first, it has only a single head, which it uses to sing a terrible song that grants the aberration its greatest power: being unnoticeable. The False Hydra is a creature which dwells under the earth, growing from seemingly nothing at first but becoming larger and more powerful through the consumption of intelligent creatures. So what is it? Subconscious, Subterranean Fear The most popular statblock available for the False Hydra is on GMBinder, however, a version is also available on other sites and its prominence seems to come from this blog post. You see, this isn’t actually an official Dungeons & Dragons monster, not even from editions past it is a homebrew creature nobody seems to know whose creation it is. The False Hydra has gained a lot of popularity over recent years, greatly aided by being featured on some YouTube channels, which makes it all the more confusing. It wasn’t until the Bard’s final moments he remembered he hadn’t been alone. Then, he remembered: the Cleric healing a near-fatal wound he’d sustained, the Barbarian holding off a horde on his own to buy them time, the many nights of drinking by the fire. The burning pain of teeth crushing through bone snapped something in his mind, or rather, snapped him out. He simply didn’t think about the danger and kept on going, completing job after job success after success. So how could this be different? Never did it occur to him coming out here was so reckless, because, well, it hadn’t been. ![]() ![]() ![]() His armor was well-made, his neck and fingers adorned with magical jewelry that he’d plundered from tombs without any help. The Bard knew it had been stupid venture into the world alone that kind of thing was normally done in parties, but clearly he didn’t need anyone else. ![]()
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