Hunting Horror
Hunting Horrors are the flying serpentine servitors of Nyarlathotep in the role of attack dogs.
Description[]
Gigantic creatures of inky blackness resembling great annelids or serpents, the Hunting Horrors also have a huge pair of bat-or dragon-like wings of a rubbery texture, strangely distorted heads, and twisted appendages which end in wicked talons. It is said that their physical forms continually shift and change, making it difficult to focus on the creature as a whole. Their ability to fly is clearly supernatural, not physical. The material that composes their bodies burns like straw when exposed to sunlight, but is thick and difficult to damage with most non-magical weapons. They speak in great and powerful voices. They are adept trackers, and their ability to manipulate magic allows them to generate a significant array of magical effects.
Overview[]
Hunting Horrors flow down directly from the sky like black lightning. They are very large, and their serpentine bodies act like tentacles to grip victims while their mouths grow impossibly wide to swallow foes whole. An individual hunting horror usually has a wingspan of 20+ feet, and an even longer body length. It weighs from 3000–6000 pounds, and could never fly if it was restricted to normal laws of physics.
Their flesh secretes a mucus so rapidly that it constantly drips off as if the Hunting Horror were falling apart. After sloughing off, the thick piles of mucus begin to harden, becoming like mud. It is possible to slowly plod through it. The mucus begins to pile up during a fight, eventually covering the Horror’s prey and holding them in place so they cannot escape when the Horror swallows them whole.
The material that makes up their bodies burns like straw when exposed to sunlight, but is thick and difficult to damage with most conventional weapons. Hunting Horrors speak to their prey mentally. To them it's akin to playing with their food. They send fantastically horrible images to the minds of those they are going to swallow.
