The toothy mouth on the top of the head is obviously a vagina dentata. I noticed that the tripod-like legs and nose-like arms each came in groups of three. It made sense to add a third eye and I attempted to place it so as to give the vagina dentata something to be happy about.
The endearingly clunky xorn from the AD&D Monster Manual. It was unselfconsciously weird drawings like this that originally drew me to the game.
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Of course, the new publisher had to make it look cooler and more menacing for 4th edition.
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