Mooncalf

Mooncalves were otherworldly flying tentacled aberrations that rarely ventured far from the mountains or hilltops they lived on. These creatures often served uvuudaum of the Far Realm.

Description
Mooncalves' bodies resembled that of a giant mollusk or a squid with fleshy bat-like wings that held it in the air. Their leathery bodies were a mass of muscle, cartilage, and mucus. The creatures had uneven proportions, the sight quite unnerving to behold. They had six short tentacles that were used as arms and in close combat, and two long ones with the reach of 30 ft. At the base of all the tentacles, the creatures had a beak-like mouth. Mooncalves' had two thing long whip-like tongues coiled inside the beaks.

Abilities
Mooncalves could not speak in any other way than telepathically at a 100-ft range.

Their alien flesh was dense and resistant to non-magical strikes.

Mooncalves were poor fliers and could not hover in the air, jerking around instead. Still, they were very fast fliers. Even though flying was their main method of movement, their tentacles were powerful enough to drag their fleshy bodies around when grounded.

Behavior
The first mooncalves were sentient creatures, a melding of a tool, a child, and a predator.

Combat
A typical mooncalf flew high above its opponents attacking with potent spell-like abilities such as call lightning, control weather, control winds, dominate animal, greater magic fang, protection from elements, quench, and resist.

When forced into close combat, a mooncalf attempted to grapple the opponents, crushing them with their tentacles, drag them towards the beak for a bite attack, or use magic to electrocute the grappled creature.

Ecology
Wherever these creatures arrived from, they often stuck around the tops of tall mountains or hills that they called home. Always a desolate place, and mooncalves always could be found in solitude, unless serving an uvuudaum master.

Mooncalves' alien physiology did not have similar dietary needs as the creatures of Prime Material Plane. They did not require certain vitamins, proteins, nor minerals to survive. Instead, they consumed any substance, organic, and inorganic. The average amount of matter they consumed roughly was the same as their body weight. Due to the curiosity programmed into them by their creators, mooncalves liked to have a variety of things to consume.

History
There were rumors about these creatures claiming they arrived from the dark side of the moon. These rumors were not far from the truth. Mooncalves' origins were tied to the titanic beings of immense power from space between worlds. These creatures were only known as moongods who might have come from the Far Realm. They discovered Prime Material worlds and were fascinated by the alien life on those planets. The moongods could not survive in Prime Material worlds so they created mooncalves, lesser versions of themselves, able to live, thrive, and explore new worlds for their creators. Mooncalves were "birthed" into Prime Material worlds on the worlds' highest points.

In, the Purple Claws mercenary company, during their expedition to Throrgar in the Underdark, entered the lair of an uvuudaum where every member of the company was killed by the uvuudaum's mooncalf minions.

Circa 1479 DR, mooncalves could be found among aberrant creatures that served the Far Realm's Abolethic Sovereignty.