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[[Image:guemull_1.jpg|left|A guemull]][[Image:guemull_2.jpg||A guemull attacking]] | [[Image:guemull_1.jpg|left|A guemull]][[Image:guemull_2.jpg||A guemull attacking]] | ||
By itself, the Guemull is a relatively harmless creature. It has a well-developed appetite, but it is not evil. Only in the presence of an ancient, concentrated evil like the Grendal does the simple guemull become a threat to anything that goes about on two legs. | By itself, the Guemull is a relatively harmless creature. It has a well-developed appetite, but it is not evil. Only in the presence of an ancient, concentrated evil like the [[Characters:Creatures:Grendal|Grendal]] does the simple guemull become a threat to anything that goes about on two legs. | ||
== Grasping Vine == | == Grasping Vine == | ||
Revision as of 08:35, 3 April 2006
Guemull
By itself, the Guemull is a relatively harmless creature. It has a well-developed appetite, but it is not evil. Only in the presence of an ancient, concentrated evil like the Grendal does the simple guemull become a threat to anything that goes about on two legs.
Grasping Vine
The Grasping vine is a kind of carnivorous plant that typically feeds on large insects and small rodents. It attracts insects by luring them with a noxious scent. It attacks larger prey by laying its spined outrunners across and animal paths and paralyzing anything that comes within a few inches of the vines.
Like other generally innocuous plants and animals found elsewhere in the forests of old Galoril, the Grasping Vine is not inherently evil. It wants only to survive. However, because the vines in the Misty Swamp are so near to the Grendal, they have grown in size, in potency, and in appetite.
Like most plants, they feed on water, but can be destroyed by intense fire and wind. To the Dwarves and Runebadgers of Uzdun'kal, they are nuisances, but little more. The Humans of Waste's Edge, however, take a different view. They do not let their children wander too near the paths into the "forgotten" forest, lest the vines overcome small bodies and weak constitutions.
Poglin
The poglin is a swamp creature with a mischievous, evil disposition. Its intelligence is above the average for the creatures around it. It moves by slithering on its belly and pulling itself along with its claws. It can also use its claws to climb up its prey and attack the head and eyes of its victims.
It attacks primarily by biting, but sometimes attacks with its tail as well. The tail contains a stinger and a gland of paralytic poison. In larger, older poglins, the poison may have the power to kill rather than paralyze.
Poglins are found throughout the marshy shore-country of the Galorean Sea. In the Misty Swamp, they are even more prolific. The Grendal eats Poglins, so they have developed a fear of and hatred for two-legged creatures. They tend to hunt in groups of four, five, or six. One member of this group is more powerful than the others, having a stronger bite, a more potent sting, or both.
Poglins have two major predators: bears and wolves. They fear anything that smells or feels like one.
Submerged Tentacle
Twiglet
