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

==Description==
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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.
<br>— [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Insects from Shaggai]]"
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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.

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==Associated Mythos Elements==
* race: [[Beings of Xiclotl]] [[Insects from Shaggai]]
* location: [[Xiclotl]], [[Shaggai]]
* setting: [[Severn Valley]]


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* [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Insects from Shaggai]]"
* sourcebook:  ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''


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