RedSpawn.
Reds are a non-magickal type of Demon which find their way into this world from wherever they are from. They vary in size from 1mm to 1km although by far most of the ones encountered are 1m-3m.
Redspawn follow variations of the same description. They have a hunched bipedal form with thick legs and clawed toes of a Raptor, four arms which are tentacles, an elephant-like domed head, sensory finger-like facial probes from what would be their jaw, surrounding a maw the shape of a giant leech which retracts and protrudes during feeding, and breathing snouts.
“Protruding from the front of its domed, elephant shaped, brain shaped head, it’s snouts, two short tubes making flapping, snuffling sound as it sniffs, breathes, proboscis like bellows spittling with flecks of lurid moisture.”
Their stance suggests the legs have evolved out of what were once another pair of tentacles. RedSpawn are believed to be cephalopods. They have no tail. Their large skulls are surprisingly light given their size, consisting of calcified shell similar to cuttle-fish. They will butt-heads and wrestle with their tentacles, kicking with their claws to gut their prey.
What do they want?
RedSpawn eat meat. They identify all sources of meat as food including Humans. They are indiscriminate. They hunt. They fight and hunt each other if they cannot get food easily which maintains their numbers. They grow rapidly depending on availability of food. Their breeding is by Sporing where any number from one or more will eject mucus into a pit. From this emerge tiny RedSpawn which have not yet developed muscular clawed legs from their lower tentacles. Most of these prey on each other the way spiders eat each other from the same hatching. As they become larger the adults will prey on them if no other food is available. Only a minority reach larger size. The very large ones are considered a good source for a whole group. Groups hunt as packs which will band together to take down larger ones to feed the majority rather than to be eaten by the larger ones.
Dwellings
RedSpawn shape mud using their mucus into a pod large enough for them to sleep upright in. It offers some level of hiding from others as they seem unable to identify the pods as dwelling places of others of their species. Where many pods are found in an area they will often use communal pools for spawning. This depends on available food sources.