Spawning of an Abductor: 

What begins as a simple ache in the gut after drinking tainted water spreads throughout the body over the course of a week, welts and dry skin cover most of the creature as hair begins falling out towards the end of the first week. The second week begins the final stages as symptoms evolve to extreme weakness and an aversion to food and light as skin begins to peel and split, bones fracture, break and snap at the slightest force applied. All the while, psychological changes begin to occur, as intrusive and animalistic thoughts overtake the creature, leading to it slowly losing a sense of itself. By the end of the second week, the creature will have sought to isolate itself completely in the dark to begin its metamorphosis.

Over the course of three days, the creature's limbs split, its flesh and bone reshaped, an exponential growth in limbs and tissue lead to what is simply known as an abductor. Though its form is bare, it will use the knowledge and skills of its life prior to lure hapless prey for it to subsume, adding to both its physical form and its repertoire of information and skills with which to lure others.

Best described as a behemoth of flesh, bone and limbs. The abductor is an amalgamation of all the creatures it has subsumed but at the core, an aberration, preferring intelligent prey. From human, elves, dwarves, to even devils, dragons and celestials. all are prey. 

In combat, an abductor acts more so as an ambushing predator, luring creatures to it, tormenting them but ultimately, it seeks to always fight when it has the advantage, otherwise, merely stalking unseen. Typically, it will try and restrain as many creatures as possible and escape, making its way back to its lair taking many winding detours to lose pursuers. If forced to fight, it will target those with the lowest health first and will fight with reckless abandon.

It is theorized that to some extent, one can speak with an abductor and negotiate with it as though it were a person.

A dark place, secluded, overgrown and ruined. An abductors lair is typically near sources of water and near settlements, from which it will prey upon the denizens of the area. The lair is covered in a variety of filth and gore, all tainted with myriad disease and parasite. A feeding grounds where it drags its unwilling prey, there they will be utterly incapacitated as carrion feeds off of them, weakening them until they can more easily be subsumed at a later date, all the while, the abductor continues to hunt prey.

Lair Actions

On initiative count 22 (losing initiative ties), the abductor takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the abductor can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:

• Hundreds of ravenous insects swarm to defend their food as 1d4+1 swarms of insects are summoned to assist the abductor. Each swarm has 25 hit points, 12 armor class (natural armor), vulnerability to fire. One bite attack: Melee weapon attack: +6 to hit, reach 0ft, One target in swarm's space. Dealing 5d4 piercing damage.
• The abductor, though its lair appears chaotic, it is a meticulous trap in of its own, dampening the effects of all magic in the area. A loud rumbling roar resounds throughout the lair's gore which forces all interloping creatures to make a DC 14 wisdom saving throw, on a fail, the creature loses concentration on any spell it had, additionally a creature cannot cast spells until the beginning of its next turn.
• With a jolt of life hinders and holds interlopers down as limbs seek to halt all ground movement making an escape, a near impossible affair. All creatures on the ground must succeed a DC 14 strength saving throw before making any movements, on a fail, that creature cannot move until the beginning of their beginning of their next turn.

Regional Effects

The region containing an abductor’s lair is tainted, which creates one or more of the following effects:

• Water supplies nearby may be growing thinner and or tainted with gore rendering it undrinkable to the nearby populace and wildlife, a creature who drinks from it must succeed a DC 17 constitution saving throw. On a fail, that creature becomes ill with the Abductor Disease, an eldritch disease which will slowly convert the person, if they survive, into an abductor.
• The local populace will be very wary of their surroundings, growing paranoid as they receive letters written from recently departed family and friends, receive gifts and trinkets reminiscent of their past. All of that is a ruse meant to wear down prey, using absorbed knowledge and skills to torment the people until they go mad.
• The uneasy feeling of being stalked is all too real in the locale around the abductor, so much so it distracts, causing a loss in modifiers for perception checks relying on sight and investigating checks performed in the area.

If the abductor dies, the water clears in about one week, the madness, depends on the people affected.