Beings of Xiclotl

Beings of Xiclotl (AKA "Xiclotl Beings", "Xiclotls") are from Ramsey Campbell's "The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)".

Name1, also known as Name2.

Origin: (earliest known story/scenario the creature appears in, indicate whether this is uncertain)

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, "The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)"

The Beings from Xiclotl are tall plant like creatures. They have metallic grey skin, many arm tentacles and a wide gaping mouth. They are highly carnivorous, and dwell on the heavily forested world of Xiclotl were they themselves are preyed on by the monstrous Death Vine creatures. The Beings are said to be not very intelligent and highly primitive.

The Beings are a slave race of the Insects from Shaggai and many of the Xiclotl race were taken to Earth, with a small colony existing today in the Severn Valley.

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Insects from Shaggai
• race: Death-Vine of Xiclotl
• location: Xiclotl
• location: Severn Valley
• tome: Revelations of Glaaki

References

• fiction: Ramsey Campbell's "The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)"
• sourcebook: Malleus Monstrorum