Blue ring octopus

Blue ring octopi were a species of sentient octopus.

Description
Blue ring octopi looked like a regular octopi but much larger. Their tentacles could grow to up to in length. Its skin was covered in hundreds of small blue circles. Some blue ring octopi were born with rings of deep red and grew to be even larger than others of their species. They were known as red shamans or shaman blue rings.

Personality
Despite their size, blue ring octopi were shy creatures.

Abilities
Like most octopi, the skin of a blue ring octopus was saturated with chromatophores. This gave the blue ring octopus excellent camouflage. In fact its camouflaged was so effective, it was capable of altering how light was reflected off its skin. This provided a blue ring octopus camouflage against creatures who used infravision or ultravision to see. Red shamans lacked this ability but were capable of casting powerful divine spells.

Combat
Blue ring octopi avoided combat when possible, preferring to evade a potentially hostile creatures. However, if forced into combat, blue ring octopi were fierce fighters. In melee combat, they used their powerful tentacles, which were poisonous, to grab and then constrict an opponent. Blue ring octopi released a poisonous cloud of ink as a defensive measure. It released enough ink to fill a sphere with a radius. The poison affected any water-breathing creature as well as any creature using magic to breath water.

Society
Red shamans were the priests of blue ring octopi society. They were considered wise by other blue ring octopi and provided advice to members of its tribe.

Ecology
Blue ring octopi were nomadic and lived together in small tribes within the oceans of the Underdark. Occasionally they found a passage to the bottom of a surface ocean, where they lived in the dark, cold waters of the ocean depths.

Relationships
Blue ring octopi had a co-operative relationship with locathah and tako.

Uses
Aboleths and kuo-toa were known to capture blue ring octopi to be used as slaves. Enslaved blue ring octopi were usually treated well. Blue ring octopi had the uncanny ability to know when another one of their species were being held as slaves, and used whatever means necessary to free them.