A cave-dwelling monster from [[Dungeons & Dragons]] that resembles a [[vampire squid]] with [[extra eyes|eyes all around the outside of its body]]. Darkmantles have the ability to create shrouds of darkness that blocks most forms of light and prey on other travelers in deep underground locales, including human-sized beings. Darkmantles usually kill by smothering their prey in their webbing.

As darkmantles are listed as open game content, they have appeared in other fantasy TTRPGs (eg. [[Pathfinder]]).
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