This is a 'handfish',as identified in this National Geographic item. I keep imagining a bunch of these guys, maybe about goblin height, clutching wicked little spears. Maybe they aren't overtly hostile to man, just inhumanly indifferent to our non-aquatic lives.
How did Lovecraft ever get his ideas without to internet to provide him pictures like this?
ReplyDeleteAnd now we know what kuo-toa are supposed to look like.
ReplyDeleteLooks more like a Murloc to me.
ReplyDeleteBow down before Dagon and despair!
ReplyDeleteDip him in some batter, fry 'em up, and he won't be so creepy then.
ReplyDeleteNasssty Whisssk! :)
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I may now put a vendor stand in Shrine of the Kuo-toa module and call it "Creepy Crisps"
I love that picture. Perfectly alien.
ReplyDeleteI like the Perspective The Happy Whisk is bringing to Monster Discussions. :)
ReplyDeleteAhh, another weird beastie from the state I live in. This thing is even creepier when you see it "walking" on film.
ReplyDeleteNot spears...tridents.
ReplyDeleteI hope that this things is not psionic.
ReplyDelete@Bob
ReplyDeleteNot only do we know what they look like, but now we know they are real