Suntermaw (Basic Lore)

Suntermaw (CR 14)
Pure Evil - Large - Aberration
A Suntermaw is one of the many aberrant things which infest the world, thrown up by the natural background magic of the universe. Some say that a nest of Suntermaws arise when a community's greed becomes too great. Others say that Suntermaws are spawned from tiny seeds of the Outer Madness, which are sewn upon the world by the dark agencies of The Without. Still others say Suntermaws are the result of dark experimentation, the same foolishness that unleashed Owlbears upon the world. Or are the result of a witch's curse, or an ill-omened birth, or portents of a dark harvest... In truth, it may be all of these things, or none. No one knows. Suntermaws are driven by an endless hunger for flesh and magic, and a mad hatred of both Life and Unlife. They will attack all living creatures, as well as undead, or perhaps worse, they will mark a living creature as bait and then patiently stalk that person, picking off those around them, so that the person is the center of a vortex of death and terror. A nest of Suntermaws is a thing to be expunged, there is no negotiation or parley with them. Once they begin their depredations, they must be destroyed, or they will render everything around their lair into lifeless, deathless, ruin.