Avolakia

Avolakia were aberrations who lived deep underground in small tribal units.

Description
An avolakia in its natural form looked like a disgusting cross between an octopus, worm and insect. It had a slimy pale gray body and moved around on six tentacles, each of which had an eye.

Combat
These monsters preferred to rely on magic or their own spell-like abilities in combat. They would also send their undead servants into combat or, if forced into melee would use their poisonous bite.

Ecology
Avolakia could animate corpses several times a day and use zombies as both minions and as a food source. Although they could eat flesh from living or freshly killed creatures they much preferred to eat undead meat. They had the ability to polymorph themselves and often used this ability to infiltrate the settlements of other creatures. In the Underdark, Avolakia often allied with mind flayers for mutual benefit.