Dark fantasy illustration of grotesque, red-eyed aquatic monsters emerging from murky water in a gloomy, teal-lit cave.

You feel it long before you see it. The oppressive silence of the Darklake is first pierced by a wet, rhythmic grinding and clacking, a sound that promises something both alive and horribly, mechanically wrong. Next, a foul stench arrives, a thick, greasy miasma of brackish water, rotting fish, and coppery blood that coats the inside of your mouth and burns the back of your throat. A sickly, iridescent light finally resolves from the gloom, and with it, the full, terrifying splendor of the kuo-toa's madness comes into view.s See more