Aboleth

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The aboleth is a revolting fish-like amphibian found primarily in subterranean lakes and rivers. It despises all nonaquatic creatures and attempts to destroy them on sight.
Aboleths are cruel and highly intelligent, making them very dangerous predators. They know many ancient and terrible secrets, after inheriting their parents' knowledge at birth, and assimilating the knowledge and memories of all they consume.

An aboleth resembles an enormous prehistoric fish, measuring some 20 feet in length from snout to tail, with four 10-foot-long tentacles sprouting from behind its massive head. Its rubbery skin is blue-green with regular grey splotches running along its sides. The pink belly of the creature is interrupted by a lamprey-like mouth and four pulsating organs that secrete a foul-smelling grey slime.

They are smart enough to refrain from immediately attacking land dwellers who draw near. Instead they hang back, hoping their prey will enter the water, which they often make appear cool, clear, and refreshing with their powers of illusion. Aboleths also use their psionic abilities to enslave individuals for use against their own companions.

They have both male and female organs, and breed in solitude, laying 1-3 eggs every five years. These eggs grow for another five years before hatching into full-grown aboleths. Although the young are physically mature, they remain with the parent for about ten years, obeying them completely.

Aboleths have their own language, and can speak Undercommon and Aquan.

COMBAT:
An aboleth attacks by flailing its long slimy tentacles, though it prefers to fight from a distance using its illusionary powers.
Transformation: A blow from an aboleth's tentacle can cause a terrible transformation. Affected creatures must make a saving throw (Fortitude DC19, 3rd Ed. D&D) or undergo a metamorphic change over the next 2-5 minutes; their skin becomes a clear, slimy membrane, and the affected creature must remained moistened with cool, fresh water or suffer 1-12 points of damage every 10 minutes.
A Remove Disease spell cast before the transformation is complete will restore an afflicted individual back to normal. Afterward, however, only a heal or mass heal spell can reverse the change.
Psionics: at will - hypnotic pattern, illusiory wall, mirage, arcana, persistent image, programmed image, project image, and veil. Cast as though by a 16th-level sorceror (Save DCs are 13+spell level).
Enslave: 3 times a day, an aboleth can attempt to enslave


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