Locandracs

The Nameless One liked what the Creators did with the sijaer and decided to mimic them a bit. She came up with the Locandracs, a species looking much like a cross between a gargoyle and a water dragon, but with tentacles and the ripping teeth of a sijaer. A thick and blocky head with red compound eyes and rows of shark teeth, long draconic neck, sharp claws on clumsy and short front legs, a bulky middle, with the tail breaking into the tentacles of a squid. Royals, like all Chaosian royals, are black with red markings.

They have no ability to produce the ink cloud of a squid so they must fight or flee with the chance of pursuit because they have no way to cover their retreat. They do, however, possess the bondcreature elemental ability of sending Chaotic waves in a sphere around them which poison the water around them; it can be used at will. Their compound eyes can see almost any direction, but impair their depth-perception and distort their vision. However, they can see something coming up behind them and use their tentacles to sqeeze a creature to death. Its only known blind spot is just under its belly, close to where the tentacles join the rest of the body.

They reproduce like a fish, by choosing a mate (no chases), laying gelatinous eggs in the water, anchoring them to kelp or something and then guarding them against predators until they hatch and either go wild or choose a bond. A majority of the population is wild rather than bonded, but few can be found near Shadow Star; most are in the immediate waters around Chaos and to the south and east, some straying as far as Sacoridia. In the wild, they tend to be apathetic to passerbys but can occasionally be aggressively territorial.

They are considered by Khori~nath to be the most dangerous thing in the seas, and the large sea serpents tend to be very aggressive toward locandracs, which tend to be solitary hunters. Some Khori~nath pods hold the old memories that say locandracs are the reason Khori~nath travel in groups.