Category:Minion Sea Spawn

This section contains canon info from officially published sources

The immature form of sea spawn, the minion sea spawn are spawned by the master sea spawn and sent out in clusters to slowly dominate shore-side villages and find prey for their parents.

Sea Spawn General Information

The sea spawn is a singular species of foul aquatic monster that has two very different stages of its life cycle. The sea spawn in its mature form, the master sea spawn, controls its immature offspring, the minion sea spawns, telepathically in order to infiltrate coastal communities. The minion sea spawn are tiny, slug like beings with mouths resembling those of lampreys. The bite of a minion sea spawn carries a [[::category:cause of Paralysis|paralytic]] poison that immobilizes its victim and allows the minion sea spawn to burrow into victim's skull and take over the brain. So dominated, the victim turned host waits for its master to burrow more of its kind. Not all of the master's offspring makes it to shore, with a small number swept back into the sea, and a small number of that surviving to maturity.^[1]

The Minion Sea Spawn

In water, minion sea spawn swim like eels, and on land they slither like snakes or worms. The slime that helps provide locomotion also enables the creature to climb sheer surfaces. Minus a host, the sea spawn wait in dark places where their hosts might be vulnerable. Hosts dominated retain access to their full abilities, though they become less trusting and more reclusive. Minion sea spawn prefer to capture young and helpless victims and toss them from cliffs overlooking the waters where their masters dwell. However, the minion sea spawn will willingly command their hosts to jump to their doom instead if needed.^[1] (A potential problem here is that normally domination doesn't provide for suicidal actions.)

If attacked, a minion sea spawn is able to call on others of its kind (with hosts) to help defend it.^[1]

Known Encounter Areas

Sea Spawn can be encountered in the following domains: Dementlieu^[2], Mordent^[3], the Nocturnal Sea^[4], and the Sea of Sorrows^[5] As an evil aquatic creature, master and minion sea spawn can be encountered in Saragoss.^[6]

References

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III Denizens of Darkness
		Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p97
		Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p97 Denizens of Darkness - pp134-136
		Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - pp 96-97 Denizens of Darkness - pp134-136
		Sea Spawn, Minion