Kraldos

Description
Infesting the liquid shadow of The Other's Black Cauldron were the menacing kraldoses. They were also referred to as "shadow sharks", although their resemblance to actual sharks was tenuous at best. A kraldos was a 12-foot long amphibious creature whose front was nothing more than a large, gaping hole filled with seven rows of gnashing black teeth. A pair of tentacles grew from the sides of its body which it used to pull its prey into the liquid shadow.

Perhaps the most terrifying aspect of the kraldoses was their ability to mimic other creatures. This included humanoid voices. A kraldos did not understand the words or languages it spoke, but knew enough to repeat certain phrases that had proven effective. Phrases such as "help me" and "save me" were particularly useful, as was the frequent favorite "don't be afraid." Not only did this ability lure in the kraldoses' victims, it acted as a form of echolocation, too, allowing it to navigate the endless dark of The Other.

Kraldoses prefered the taste of realstuff flesh. However, if there was a sufficient lack of flesh, the kraldoses turned instead to their own fries and other shadow creatures for sustenance. When truly desperate, kraldoses would even eat the undead that swam the liquid shadows of The Black Cauldron.

Although kraldoses prefered hunting alone, they had been known to establish kraldos communities on islands of hard shadow. There, the kraldoses vomited up their young, formed from the remains of realstuff creatures they'd consumed. For this reason, newborn kraldos fries had a fleshy quality to their scales which faded with time as their Shadowstuff flesh darkened. Additionally, kraldos fries adopted the same commonly mimicked phrases of the parent kraldos, however, the fries' mimicries often came out as gruesome exaggerations of the original phrase.