Otyughs of Thunder Rift
According to rumor, a creature that might be an otyugh lives in one of the old mine shafts near Melinir, a delve long used as a cesspit and trash dump by the townspeople.
Intrepid scouts and would-be settlers in the Black Swamps and the Marshwood report otyughs living in those wetlands.
Nature blessed otyughs with very efficient digestive systems. They excrete nitre in long strings that resemble cobwebs, and puffs of aromatic gases. They also produce small amounts of remarkably clean water; this purified liquid almost invariably mixes with the fetid muck the otyughs inhabit. Alchemists and wizards value the nitrous waste of otyughs for use in fire potions, incendiary mixtures, medicines, and so on.
The ghouls of the Marshwood avoid otyughs because the ‘ughs will eat them. Undead or dead; it’s all just delicious rotten food to an otyugh.
Lizardmen and newts often dispose of offal by feeding it to the local otyughs.
Pickman the Sage speculates that otyughs are related to the legendary decapus.
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