Kamadan

A kamadan (pronounced "KAM-ah-dan") was a leopard-like creature from the jungles of Chult.

Description
Kamadans were otherwise identical to leopards, except for the additional six snake bodies protruding from their shoulders.

Combat
The typical strategy of a hunting kamadan was to use its sleeping gas breath weapon to knock its prey unconscious before moving for the kill. The snakes also possessed a powerful poison with their bites.

Ecology
Kamadans hunted either alone or in mated pairs.

Some sages claimed that kamadans were related to displacer beasts, although most recognized that the similarities between them were coincidental and the creatures were unrelated. Kamadans were also known to despise displacer beasts and to attack them on sight.

A close relative of the kamadan was the kamatlan, a similar creature that was native to Maztica.

Notable kamadans
Shagambi, one of the Nine Trickster Gods of Chult, was a wise and virtuous kamadan.

Appearances

 * Tomb of Annihilation