Vohdian Dirigible Venom Squid

This large, flying predator is endemic to Vohd.

It floats amongst the trunks of the mushroom forests, using its natural colour-changing camouflage to hide in the Fog, its skin rippling with misty whites and greys.

On the rare occasions it is visible, it resembles a giant, nightmarish mix of dragonfly and squid, with a bulbous, gas-filled thorax, a long segmented tail, enormous eyes, and a chomping beak surrounded by grasping suckers and clawed tentacles.

To enable its massive form to fly, it fills its body with the Fog, which it metabolises into two components: a) a lighter than air gas that provides it with buoyancy, and b) a concentrated poison that it delivers to its prey via either its suckers or spines shot from its tail.

The beast is long-lived with a slow metabolism. It’s ability to float means it does not require much energy to move its huge mass.

It hunts via pursuit predation. It waits motionless in the Fog near a well-used wildlife track in the forest. When prey passes beneath, it flings a poison spine. Then, it lazily flutters its wings and slowly follows the disoriented prey through the forest, waiting for the poison to take effect. It’s keen senses means it never loses its prey, so it doesn’t rush the chase. This slow pursuit can take hours or sometimes days. Eventually, as the prey weakens, the beast moves in and delivers more poison with its tentacles, then lifts its victim up into the Fog to be devoured.

Who doesn’t love a poisonous squid blimp.

(concept submitted by devoidofgravitas)