Mudtooth
Essentially a squat mouth with a tail, the Mudtooth slithers through shallow marsh-channels and flood-plains on bony jaws as sharp as broken crockery. A carnivore with an endless appetite and no particular preferences, it strikes at anything smaller, slower, or unlucky enough to thrash where it lurks. Travellers crossing the flood-plains are advised to keep hands high and feet quick.
Key traits
- Squat-bodied with bony jaws as sharp as broken crockery; the jaw is the creature's dominant and defining feature.
- A carnivore that strikes opportunistically at anything smaller, slower, or insufficiently cautious in the shallow marsh-channels it inhabits.
- Lurks in shallow flood-plain waters, relying on stillness and the murky cover of marsh water to ambush prey.
- Considered a genuine hazard to travellers crossing flood-plains and marshlands on foot.