Otyugh (Basic Lore)

Otyugh (CR 7)
Neutral - Large - Aberration
Otyughs are monsters that live on the wastes of other monsters. Ew. They are vile, icky, and terrible, and the fact that are intelligent and urbane creatures just makes it even worse. Otyughs are not beasts, they have good minds and are quite interesting conversationalists... if you can get past what they eat and how they live. Everything that is disgusting and terrible, an otyugh loves. Even ogres, those wretched things, find an otyugh's personal habits and lifestyle vomit-inducing. Otyughs perform an important ecological function in lairs and dungeons, disposing of the wastes of the rest of the inhabitants, but it certainly doesn't improve their breath. Otyughs also have the peculiar habit of venerating certain pieces of trash above others in their lairs. Often, they will build shrines to a collection of broken glass shards, or a bent tea kettle, placing it somewhere they can easily regard it when they take their ease amid the filth and refuse of their lair. While these shrines are not, themselves, particularly clean, they demonstrate an inscrutable reverence and spirituality to the otyugh's nature.