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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 | 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== | ==Heresies and Controversies== | ||
Optional. This is a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the creature's mythos. | Optional. This is a good place to include non-canon and controversial aspects of the creature's mythos. | ||
Suggested Alternative Theories include: Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; | Suggested Alternative Theories include: Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; | ||
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rumor and speculation... these contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. | rumor and speculation... these contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. | ||
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==Keeper Notes== | ==Keeper Notes== | ||
Optional. Suggestions for using these creatures in the CoC RPG, and in fan-fiction. | |||
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==Associated Mythos Elements== | ==Associated Mythos Elements== | ||
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