Otyug

The Otyugh is hunger made flesh. An ambulatory digestive system, it knows nothing in the world except it’s endless urge to eat. And it eats. And it is never full. And it just keeps growing.

The origin of otyugh is unknown, but we class them as aberrations because such a creature could not have come to be through any natural means. Some speculate that they were seeded across the world by a hungry denizen of the far realm, and that every time an otyugh eats, that unnamed being grows a little bit as well. Other people think they are the creation of a mad druid, perverting the cycle of life and death by isolating the growth impulse, and letting it out into the world as its own being.

The outward appearance of an otyugh does not reflect the weirdness of it’s physiology. Otyugh have no internal organs to speak of, they are made up of a rubbery ooze similar in consistency to dried pudding. This substance has digestive properties, and can absorb any organic matter that the otyugh takes in through its mouth. The otyugh does not even have a separate brain — it’s neural system is distributed through the entirety of it’s body.