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| − | + | The '''Death-Vines of Xiclotl''' are from [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Insects from Shaggai]]". | |
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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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| + | ==Heresies and Controversies== | ||
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| + | ==Keeper Notes== | ||
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| + | ==Associated Mythos Elements== | ||
| + | * race: [[Beings of Xiclotl]] [[Insects from Shaggai]] | ||
| + | * location: [[Xiclotl]], [[Shaggai]] | ||
| + | * setting: [[Severn Valley]] | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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| + | * [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Insects from Shaggai]]" | ||
| + | * sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]'' | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:42, 12 July 2022
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
