Ossengral (Basic Lore)

Ossengral (CR 38)
Pure Evil - Large - Aberration
Ossengral are one of those Things that afflict reality. Ossengral can be encountered almost anywhere, and are known by a myriad of names, such as Horrors, Night Terrors, Phobos Incarnates, Ruin Frights, and many other names besides. They are incredibly mighty, and incredibly deadly, and if not for their habit of always leaving survivors, it is likely that they would not be known to the larger scholarly and adventuring community at all. Ossengral is a name for these awful things that means 'Groaner' or 'Growler' in an ancient toungue, and this is an apt description of these aberrant entities. Ossengral look like dark masses of spiky limbs, multiple arms, short, powerful legs, a torso covered in bundled spikes and a large head dominated by terrible eyes. But by far their most distinctive feature is their terrible, atonal, Growl. Many survivors utterly fixate upon this unnatural sound, a ceaseless, tireless, monotonous grinding growl that never slows or varies once they begin, and is disturbingly unnatural in its unwordly tonality. Ossengral are horrendous monsters even without the Growl, survivors reporting they can appear and disappear seemingly at will, attacking with trememdously long limbs like massive hook-laden cables. They appear almost exclusively in desolate places, such as ruins, dungeons, middens, barrows, abandoned buildings, sewers, deserts, glaciers, and the like. They are completely unnatural, and scholars speculate they appear from Someplace Else when they detect prey of the appropriate strength. They always attack without warning, but once they appear, the Growl they seem to utter at all times makes their presence easy to notice. At the end of battles, they vanish without trace, and no lair has ever been reported, they seem to have no habits or places to dwell, they seem to exist only to attack prey and disappear.