Death-Vine of Xiclotl

The Death-Vines of Xiclotl are from Ramsey Campbell's "The Insects from Shaggai".

Description

I had almost collided, I thought, with a metallically grey tree... about sixteen feet high with very thick cylindrical branches... cylinders further divided into six flat circular extensions. This might merely have been a natural distortion, and such an explanation might also have accounted for the strange arrangement of the branches in a regular circle at the apex of the trunk; but I could reach for no natural explanation when those branches nearest me suddenly extended clutchingly in my direction, and from the top of what I had taken for a trunk rose a featureless oval... an orifice gaping at the top.
— Ramsey Campbell's "The Insects from Shaggai"

An alien species of tentacled plant-creatures native to the planet Xiclotl, also found on the neighboring world of Shaggai, where they are enslaved by the Insects from Shaggai and used as brute laborers. A cult of these beings fervently worship legendary plant-thing ancestors, even sacrificing themselves to their gods in devotion.

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Beings of Xiclotl Insects from Shaggai
• location: Xiclotl, Shaggai
• setting: Severn Valley

References

• Ramsey Campbell's "The Insects from Shaggai"
• sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum