View source for Ur-maeldryth

{{Critter
|new=Yes
|Critter Name=ur-maeldryth
|Province=Extra-Provincial
|City=Soul of Maelshyve
|MapList=*{{rmap|31n|Soul of Maelshyve (31n)}}
|simulevel=200
|naturallevel=200
|weaponlevel=200
|defenselevel=200
|level=200
|flex=No
|MinCap=1600
|MaxCap=1750
|BodyType=biped
|Has Coins=no
|Has Gems=yes
|Has Boxes=no
|Evil=no
|Construct=no
|Corporeal=yes
|Special=yes
|Casts Spells=yes
|Stealthy=no
|Skinnable=yes
|hasskin=Yes
|Skin Name=midnight-blue demonscale
|haspart=No
|hasbone=Yes
|Bone Name=demonbone
}}
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==Description==
Inexplicably connected to its surroundings, the gigantic ur-maeldryth appears utterly at home.  Dozens of fleshy, clawed tentacles plated with large midnight-blue scales snake outward from a nexus of chalky black bone.  With a tremendously long reach, they thrash about feverishly, the triple-tined claws snapping in every direction.

==Recall==
Part of what passes for the demon [[Maelshyve]]'s metaphysical immune system, the ur-maeldryths are only found where her very self has been made vulnerable.  The overlapping laws of our [[Plane of Abiding]] and the demonic [[Plane of Exile]] allow, or perhaps force, these creatures to be fully manifest, in contrast to the wraithlike [[maeldryth]]s.  Much about them remains a mystery, but there is one certainty: Every time an ur-maeldryth dies, so does Maelshyve, bit by bit.

They are known to cast [[Viscous Solution]], [[Heighten Pain]], [[Soul Bonding]], and [[Hand of Tenemlor]].

==In Depth==
They will adapt to your attacks and spells so you have to keep rotating attack types and spells that you use.<br>
AOE Spells do not have this issue.

===Equipment/Loot===
Will occasionally drop a {{sloot|i|purple-speckled dusky blue phenocryst}}

==Messaging==
*Spawn:     ''Suppurating detritus and splashes of ichor break away from the surroundings, congealing into an ur-maeldryth.
*Entrance:  ''An ur-maeldryth drifts into view, its tentacles undulating hypnotically.
*Exit:      ''TBD
*Death:     ''With an ur-maeldryth's death, the vicinity looks less substantial.
*Decay:     ''An ur-maeldryth fades, and everything around you fuzzes a little.
*Other:     ''An ur-maeldryth hovers silently, a nightmarish guardian biding its time before laying waste to the invaders.
*Other:     ''Impossibly wide emerald eyes open in an ur-maeldryth's nexus as its dark maw gapes in a gleeful howl.  The glowing green orbs vanish, swallowed once more behind the tentacular mass.

==Evolving==
When you see these messages in monsterbold color, it will be listed as an evolving ur-maeldryth.<br>
After the 3rd message, it will be an evolved ur-maeldryth.  They are <b>significantly</b> harder.<br>
<br>
'''New tentacles begin to sprout from the ur-maeldryth's nexus explosively!'''<br>
'''More tentacles sprout from the ur-maeldryth's nexus in a frightening burst of growth!'''<br>
'''Still more tentacles sprout from the ur-maeldryth's nexus, swarming outward in overwhelming numbers!'''<br>
{{cat|Extra-planar creatures}}