CREATURE NAME: Teeth of the valley CREATURE DESCRIPTION: This is a plant similar to lily of the valley, but swamp-living, and the flowers, rather than sprays of little bell-shaped white blossoms, appear to be teeth. They don't move or bite, they're just... harmlessly creepy and have a faint halitosis (bad breath) odor if you lean in and sniff. Flies regularly crawl around on the teeth. Are they pollinating the plants somehow? close your mouth you don't want them on your teeth. CANON INSPIRED? None, I just saw that tumblr image and was like this would be perfect.
CREATURE NAME: Dianoga! CREATURE DESCRIPTION: Here's a pic from the Wildlife Guide to Star Wars. Dianoga are seven-armed alien cephalopods with a single large eye on a stalk, which lurk underwater where they're hard to detect.
As on the Death Star, they tend to pop their eye up above the surface of the water, stare for a while, and (if you don't back away) grab you with their tentacles and pull you under, where they may or may not try and bite. Either way, after a moment they let go and move on.
This is a good excuse to dunk characters who otherwise aren't likely to end up submerged in the River. I will say dianoga of a size big enough to pull people under are rare here, and smaller ones are just weird critters that stare at you and get places they shouldn't. I'm also gonna have them be fundamentally cautious and not hard to scare off.
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CREATURE DESCRIPTION: This is a plant similar to lily of the valley, but swamp-living, and the flowers, rather than sprays of little bell-shaped white blossoms, appear to be teeth. They don't move or bite, they're just... harmlessly creepy and have a faint halitosis (bad breath) odor if you lean in and sniff. Flies regularly crawl around on the teeth. Are they pollinating the plants somehow? close your mouth you don't want them on your teeth.
CANON INSPIRED? None, I just saw that tumblr image and was like this would be perfect.
CREATURE NAME: Dianoga!
CREATURE DESCRIPTION: Here's a pic from the Wildlife Guide to Star Wars. Dianoga are seven-armed alien cephalopods with a single large eye on a stalk, which lurk underwater where they're hard to detect.
As on the Death Star, they tend to pop their eye up above the surface of the water, stare for a while, and (if you don't back away) grab you with their tentacles and pull you under, where they may or may not try and bite. Either way, after a moment they let go and move on.
This is a good excuse to dunk characters who otherwise aren't likely to end up submerged in the River. I will say dianoga of a size big enough to pull people under are rare here, and smaller ones are just weird critters that stare at you and get places they shouldn't. I'm also gonna have them be fundamentally cautious and not hard to scare off.
CANON INSPIRED? Star Wars (again)