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Butterfly Hydra

Creature in a Bottle

Butterfly Hydra

Wondrous item, very rare

 

The Butterfly Hydra is the smallest species in the dreaded family of three-headed reptiles. It's diminuitive size makes it harder for it to best other creatures in a fight, so it uses mimickry to catch it's prey. It's head frills imitate butterflies, which attracts both birds that want to feed on these butterflies as well as male butteflies in search for a mate. The Hydra moves around it's heads, waiting until a potential meal is close and then strikes forth with claws and beaks.

Though what truly makes the Butterfly Hydra a vauable asset for every potion maker is it's natural regeneration ability. A few carefully harvested drops of blood can be used as the base for a Potion of Regeneration. Drinking such a Potion causes the drinker to regain 3 points of life at the start of each of their turns. In addition, if a creature currently under the influence of a Potion of Regeneration is unconscious and has to make a Death Saving Throw at the start of it's turn, it succeeds on the Throw, but does not gain the life for as long as it is unconscious. The effect of such a potion last for 1 hour.

 

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