Amphibious. The Cipactli can breathe both air and water.
Underwater Camouflage. The Cipactli has advantage on Dexterity(Stealth) checks made to hide while underwater.
Water Step. Asa bonus action, the Cipactli can liquify itself, disappearing from its current location and reappearing in an unoccupied space within 20ft. Its current location and its new location must be connected by water in some way.
Multiattack: The Cipactli makes 2 Bite attacks. If both attacks hit a medium or smaller creature, the target is grappled(escape DC 14), and the Cipactli can use Devouring Embrace.
Bite: Melee weapon attack, +6 to hit, reach 5ft, 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, total cover on effects outside the Cipactli, and it takes 14(4d6) piercing damage at the start of the Cipactli's turn 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 use 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): The Cipactli sings a soporific, primordial song of eternal rest and divine repose from its many mouths. Each creature within 100ft of the Cipactli that can hear it must succeed on a DC 14 Charisma saving throw or fall asleep and remain Unconcious 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, undead, and spells that allow speech to be impossible(E.X Silence).
Description
"The first one hopped out of the stream with a foul noise, its many mouths chirping with a disturbing sound. All might have died if not for the captain, who smacked a horse and drove it into a sudden movement: the Cipactli roared and stripped it to bones while our party fled."
Cipactli are a hideous, demonic blend of the worst elements of crocodilians and deepwater fish with some of the 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 fiendish eggs hatch into young, froggish Cipactli within a week, and the parent generally leaves them at least one large carcass for nourishment.
Ravenous Raiders. Always hungry and ever-seeking easy prey, a Cipactli demon steals blood and animal sacrifices from temples, devours goats and cattle in their barns, consumes carrion, demand sacrifices, and has been known to hypnotize and eventually eat human victims so silently that others sleeping nearby nearly never wake.
Friends of Elementals. The Cipactli were witnesses to the creation of the world, and their bloodline traces back to the earliest instances of fire, water, earth, void, and air. All elementals are at least somewhat respectful to a Cipactli, and the two occasionally form alliances. Water elementals, in particular, often inhabit the same rivers, wells, and oceans as Cipactli.
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