Hey! So one quick goof here. I mention at one point that I'm drawing a standard issue Sahuagin. I'm actually drawing a Priestess. It slipped my mind while I was recording. Such is life. Enjoy!

Glad I stumbled across your channel, really a diamond in the rough. Keep on keeping on!

I am so glad you tied this back to the Yuan-Ti! In just about every campaign I've run where one or the other appears, I make them allies because I see some interesting similarities between them with them both being evil, secluded races with designs of world conquest, ties to a specific animal, widely varied forms and born infiltrators among them. I usually give them both large empires on a sort of new world type continent where their alliance is born from the practical fact that the Sahuagin want the seas and don't care much for the land and the Yuan-Ti want the land and don't care much for the seas and so can work together to get what they want without much conflict. In my homebrew campaign world they both also have a god in common that they worship, that being a massive sea serpent (inspired by the Norse world serpent) that succeeded in fending off an attack from several storm gods in ancient times but was so exhausted after the fight that it now sleeps coiled beneath the sea and around the continent to this day. Adding in your observations of the contrast between Sahuagin and Sea Elf society and the possibility of the former being mutations of the latter, makes now also want to connect the Drow into all of this (the Drow haven't come up in any of my campaigns in this setting yet and they could fit into the alliance in that they care about the Underdark and not so much the surface). Starts to paint this picture of three subversive civilizations breaking off (or potentially being exiled) from their original peoples and secluding themselves out in a far away, harsh part of the world, making deals with dark, corrupting forces to survive and emerging out the other end of this hardship as great, but dark empires that now have designs to return to where they came from and claim it for themselves. So yeah, basically, thank you for indirectly helping me to flesh out these antagonists. :)

Just stumbled on your channel while looking for some inspiration for the Sahuagin that my party will definitely encounter while sailing from Neverwinter to Balder's Gate. You are an engaging speaker and watching you draw makes me think to myself, "I want to do THAT."

Another super cool Monster Mondays! If I were to do an underwater campaign the big bad would definitely be the Kraken. Which would also be a great Monster Monday special, just saying.

I would like to suggest Gnolls! I love these guys and their chaotic savagery, but I think that they are sorely underutilized!

In addition to the Sahuagan -Yuan Ti connection it also mirrors the Drow. Perhaps the Sahuagan we're simply sea elves who ventured to deep into the ocean, and turned to worshipping new gods to survive.

loved the goblen shark Sahuagin. Mr. Arcane Forge could you plz do the Drows for you next monster Monday and draw a drow female samurai i have one in my campaign and it be pretty cool if you draw the character P.s. the charater has a black widow braclte but that's up to you to add

Had a friend of mine make a campaign set in the elemental plane of water, we got captured and fought in an underwater arena

I love your takes on all the monsters you've covered. excellent stuff with unique spins on old favourites.

Man I love your art, and I love learning about monsters too. Keep it coming!

I think Minotaurs would be a good choice, you could talk about the Greek myths and legends about the Minotaur and how he was an explination for earthquakes

As always great video! Like Fierce Mushroom, I have never done a fully aquatic campaign, but have done some sea travel with encounters. I have been scared of water dungeons since my old days of Everquest! I will think about incorporating one when I DM, as long as I don't have to be in it! LOL

Dude you have an awesome channel. Great idea mixing art and ecology!

You should make a Monster Monday on Hags! Specifically, a Night Hag would be cool.

Your channel deserves a lot more subs, but I'm sure you'll get there e eventually. A Behir could be interesting to draw and investigate why they're a monstrosity and not a dragon

I've never been in a campaign like that myself but I do know a friend who's DM had the brilliant idea of having a underwater campaign in a deep sea Trench that stretched all the way down to the underdark where a group of mind flayers we're trying to create a stellar ship and oddly one of the player characters was one of these fishy Fellows if you're interested I'll get in contact with them and see if I can get any more details about it =)

Sahuagin is also pronounced suh-hoo-uh-ghin, as found on official sources, and in audio from Baldur’s Gate 2.

They ignore evolutionary tempo, but mutation that makes a creature look like a predator, or mimics it's own prey in some fashion exist in nature. They've just taken some fantasy liberties with the process. I'd also seen another take on Sahuagin that they continue to grow through life just like fish, so the more powerful barons and such have grown into them. Maybe? Lots of good info here and... a goblin shark variant?!? That is genius!

There is an Unearthed Arcana article that has a pile of different elven sub-races, including the Sea Elves: media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/UA-ElfSubraces.pdf

Nice! I like the music. Never had an entirely aquatic campaign, did have a pirate side quest in a D&D game I was DMing. But the players missed it entirely. I was so excited for it too. I mean a pirate crew with a Rakshasha captain sounds awesome right?

Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes has water elves

A guy named Marsh who details the underwater world? Anyone else getting a whiff of Innsmouth?

Nice video

i love dragons so if you could do like a faerie Dragon! love there cute mysterious nature

Mordenkamens Tomb of Foes

God I love your art, it always leans into these races bestial aspects and aren't just recolored humans

How do you not have like thousands of views?

What should these guys sound like?

Ok so the way you pronounce yuan ti makes me just *uncontrollable noises*