Category:Kelpie
Canon Information
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This section contains canon info from officially published sources |
Kelpies are malicious, shapechanging[1][2] 
plants[1][3] or fey[4] 
that are encountered in or near bodies of water[1][3][4], whether they be inland[4] or the vast ocean.[1] A kelpie has spell-like abilities to charm humanoids and motivate them to draw near water, where the kelpie proceeds to drown them.[1][4]
A kelpie's natural form is vile and wretched, consisting of a looming warhorse sheathed in decaying plant matter with water droplets falling off of it. The stench of rot and death surrounds a kelpie.[4] However, a kelpie can assume alternate forms to disguise its true nature, including the guises of a normal mount (horse or hippocampus)[1] and a human.[1][5] It has variously been said that a human form can only be female[1] or of any gender.[5]
Kelpies can be encountered in the domains of Dementlieu,[6][7] Tepest,[8][9] and Saragoss.[10] 
A particular kelpie might live at Maiden Point in Liffe[11]; such kelpie is one of the demilords of Liffe.[12]
Descriptive Text
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This section contains Homebrew non-canon info, created by fans |
"Come with me, child," the great gray horse said. "You'll never have another chance to ride another such as myself. I appear only to the most beautiful child in the Lake Country once in a year, and I never come to the same child more than once."
He was a beautiful horse, tall and dapple-gray, with his long white tail and long white mane; but Marie looked into his great green eyes, and in them she saw herself drowning in Lake Duchamps, with the wild green kelp all around her.
-The Kelpie, traditional Dementlieuse[13]
External Links
- Kelpie (Real-world monster) at Wikipedia
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Monstrous Manual p.
- ↑ Fiend Folio (3.0) p. 114-115
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tales from the Yawning Portal p. 238
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Fiend Folio (3.0) p. 114
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fiend Folio (3.0) p. 115
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 68
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 15
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 80
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 31
- ↑ Islands of Terror p. 50
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 23
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gaz. p. 42
- ↑ Descriptive text from John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (contributed by Nathan Okerlund), from posts on the Fraternity of Shadows message board.
