Monster of the Week: Fungal Manifestation of Igramel

Monster of the Week, January 14, 2020

Each Tuesday, I post a multimedia painting/collage of a monster with background, presented as a system-agnostic combination of image and background for you, my dear reader(s) to raid as you desire. This project was very loosely based on the idea behind Patrick Stuart and Scrap Princess in their book Fire on the Velvet Horizon, even though I have only encountered the book through reviews.

Fungal Manifestation of Igramel

Fungal materials borne on the space winds can find themselves on many worlds; those from the Planetary Wastes of Igranel spread of hosts to the hive mind of the Shadow Lords of Igramel. The fungal manifestations go on to infest worlds, building advanced sorcerous scientific devices to manipulate life to weaken, corrupt, or even topple the governments of sentient beings and pave the way for them to reshape those worlds to be more hospitable for their fungal life forms.

The fungal flesh of the manifestations is resistant to damage and sensitive to sensations of heat and vibrations. Their bodies for limbs, wings, and sensory organs as needed, and extend venomous tendrils and spores.

While they appear to be mindless monsters to most human and human-like creatures, the manifestations are controlled by a single, highly-developed, but entirely alien an incomprehensible hive mind.

Manifestations are always considered expendable so long as spores can allow more manifestations to be grown, because the hive mind is very patient.

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