Amphibious. The Cipactli can breath both water and air.
Underwater Camouflage. The Cipactli has advantage on stealth checks while underwater.
Water Step. As a bonus action, the cipactli can liquefy itself, disappearing from its current location and reappearing in an unoccupied space it can see within 20 feet. Its current location and the new location must be connected by water in some way. Soggy ground, a stream, ooze, or even runoff from a drain pipe.
Multiattack. The cipactli makes two bite attacks. If both attacks hit a medium or smaller target, the target is grappled (escape dc 14), and the Cipactli uses Devouring Embrace.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.
Devouring Embrace. The Cipactli devours a medium or smaller creature grappled by it. The devoured target is blinded, restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the cipactli and takes 14 (4d6) piercing damage at the start of each of the cipactli's turns as the lesser mouths slowly consume it.
If the Cipactli moves, the devoured target moves with it. The cipactli can only devour one target at a time. A creature, including the devoured target, can take its action to pry the devoured target out of the cipactli's many jaws by succeeding on a DC 14 strength check.
Ancient Lullaby (recharge 5-6). A cipactli sings a soporific, primordial song of eternal rest and divine repose from its many mouths. Each creature within 100 feet of the cipactli that can hear the song must succeed on a DC 14 Charisma saving throw or fall asleep and remain unconscious for 10 minutes. A creature awakens if it takes damage or another creature takes an action to wake it. This song has no effect on constructs or the undead.
Description
Cipactli are a hideous monstrous blend of the worst elements of crocodilians and deepwater fish with some coloration of a poisonous frog. They have a scaled hide, a spiked tail with a spine, and toothy maws at each joint.
Swift Spawning. The cipactli are all hermaphrodites or of indefinite gender, laying eggs in their fallen foes. These eggs hatch into young froggish cipactli within a week, and their parent generally leaves them at least one carcass as nourishment.
Ancient Bloodline. The cipactli were witness to the first cataclysm, and their bloodline traces back to the Qaelethian Civil War when it was created as a means to win the war.
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