Vile Fungus

The Vile Fungi are from Michael Siefener's “Beschwörungen”.

Description

At first glance, the vile fungus seems to be a collection of mushrooms. Their color and outline, however, constantly appear to change, so that the observer cannot focus properly on them and suffers from visual defects. Dead earth, on which nothing grows, surrounds their location in a radius of several meters. Black shadows creep around them like dark smoke screens, and fungoid filaments crawl over the floor or hang down if the fungus grows on a ceiling, to loop themselves around a human, whispering, rasping, smacking, endlessly distant and quiet. Warm, soft, and sticky blackness. — Michael Siefener, “Beschwörungen”

A kind of parasitic life form, not quite plant nor animal in nature, suspected of originating on cold Yuggoth, either naturally or by creation of the Mi-go for unguessable purpose, before spreading throughout the cosmos with the Mi-go. Wherever it takes root, it threatens to infect living things with spores on contact with its tendrils, the spores growing parasitically in the host within a few hours, and completely taking over the host if a successful amputation or destruction of the host does not stop the fungus first.

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Mi-go
• location: Yuggoth

References

• fiction: — Michael Siefener, “Beschwörungen”
• sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum