Ahuizotl

An Ahuizotl is a sinister creature that lurks underwater and snatches its victims from hiding so that it can feast on its favorite body parts: eyes, teeth, and fingernails.

Languages
An Ahuizotl can speak Common.

Lands
Ahuizotls like warm freshwater, preferring lakes over any other body of water. They live solitary, having an entire lake declared as their territory, or if they live in a river having a good portion of it as their own.

The Art of War
An Ahuizotl prefers to lurk in the shallows of its lake among the plants, keeping the tip of its snout above water so it can entice victims with cries for help, since they can mimic any spoken voices that it has heard before with unnatural ease. If a victim comes near enough, the Ahuizotl quickly snatches the victim with its tail hand and retreats to the depths of the lake to feed. Ahuizotls also use the same tactics on people in boats.

The most feared ability of the Ahuizotl is its ability to cause its victims to become permanently blind, if they are able to bite it or scratch it with the claws on its tail hand. The blinding caused by one of these wounds is permanent.

They also have Darkvision, liking to sleep in underwater caves. They can sense things within 60 feet of them.

Appearance
Although fairly large, an Ahuizotl is quite squat and can lurk in water as shallow as three feet deep. The creature resembles a monkey in form, but it has a head and hind legs similar to a dog's. It keeps its body flat and low to the ground while on land. The most unusual feature of this creature is its long, prehensile tail, which is tipped with a muscular hand.