Talk:Night Gaunt/@comment-39143887-20190818074326/@comment-27045866-20190818085057

It's possible that unmarried ones could serve the monsters of chaos at the bottom of the ocean but it's unclear. After mated they serve their husband. He pretty much becomes their god and they give themselves to him body, mind, and soul. They are pretty much the most hardcore submissive monster in the encyclopedia.

from the making of:

"The mated females are covered in a rubber suit-like substance which is created by the male. The substance completely engulfs the female's body, meaning that she has given up her entire self to her mate to be groped and toyed with at any time. The wings of the Night Gaunt also belong to the male, meaning that the female has also given up control of where she goes to her mate. "

It doesn't help that the encyclopedia entries are written by an in universe character that is just discovering most of these monsters and only spends a few hour with each married couple. The abyssal monsters are specifically created to be more mysterious and strange in ways the scholar doesn't fully understand them (like how the Mindflayer doesn't even really mention her husband or that the transformation is reversable.)