Kuo-toa
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Kuo-toa are a debased monstrous humanoid fish-like race, in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, that dwell in the Underdark.
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Description
Kuo-toa have human-like bodies and fish-like heads.Society
Kuo-toa often raid seaside settlements for human victims. They worship the goddess Blibdoolpoolp.Kuo-toa in the Forgotten Realms
In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting kuo-toans maintain friendly relations with drow, their Underdark neighbours. Blibdoolpoolp is the focus of the kuo-toans' lives, and even has her own monstrous, deformed kuo-toa breed - the giant kuo-toa leviathan.Kuo-toa in Greyhawk
In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting, kuo-toa settlements are known to exist in the Underdark, near the Vault of the Drow beneath the Hellfurnaces.Creative origins
Kuo-toa were inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's demonic fish-men, the Deep Ones, introduced in his horror novel The Shadow Over Innsmouth.The name Kuo-toan may have come from 'Croatoan', a mysterious word carved into a tree -- the only clue left when an English colony vanished from Roanoke Island after colonizing it in 1587. Alternatively, the name may be related to the Kulullu - fishmen that the ancient Babylonians believed in, a race of demons that Tiamat gave birth to.
References
- Cook, David, et al. Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (TSR, 1989).
- Stewart, Doug, ed. Monstrous Manual (TSR, 1994).
- Turnbull, Don, ed. Fiend Folio (TSR, 1981).
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