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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 of 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. | |||
==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]] | |||
==References== | |||
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* [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Insects from Shaggai]]" | |||
* sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]'' | |||
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[[Category:Severn Valley]] | |||
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Revision as of 01:41, 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 of 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.
Heresies and Controversies
Keeper Notes
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