HoMM: Olden Era – Dungeon Tier VI: Hydra / Chthonic Hydra / Infernal Hydra
A creature of endless growth, a hydra can create adidtional heads. Perhaps that’s whz this strong creature is actually so mindless: were each head intelligent, they wouldn’t ever be able to make unanimous decision.
Legend says that in the deepest, darkest corner of Enroth, below the tunnels know to Alvar, a slow chthonic life slithers, waiting. The hydras that have a stronger affinity to it are slower, but very resilent.
A scholar once claimed that hydras are born of earth. If so, the red spikes that some of them carry must be former crystal. Explains their bad temper and aggressivness. Never trust crystals.