Post by DM Leverage on Mar 23, 2012 3:38:32 GMT -5
Araumycos
Beneath the High Forest lies a great and terrible secret. Once the dwarves of old Ammarindar delved deeply beneath the forest, held at that time by the elf kingdom of Eaerlann, but now their mines and hold are overgrown by the colossal entity known as Araumycos - a single great fungus extending through caverns and mines from one end of the High Forest to the other.
Small sections of Araumycos are susceptible to all types of physical attacks, and can be easily destroyed by acid, fire, poison, and other such means. The stuff stubbornly returns sooner than later. Cuttings from the fungus do not survive in other areas; it seems to have reached its greatest possible extent and no longer advances through the Underdark. From time to time, large growths of Araumycos wither and decay, revealing ancient caverns and ruins long covered by the fungus.
Araumycos is generally passive or quiescent, ignoring (or unaware of) even the most destructive intrusions into its body. However, Underdark explorers whisper that this is not always the case. The Great Fungus possesses terrible weapons should it choose to use them - deadly poisons, mobile manifestations similar to various ooze and slime monsters, insidious spores to dominate invaders, and molds that animate the skeletal remains of the creatures they cling to. Some say that the titanic creature possesses unimaginable psionic power and is capable of destroying the minds and wills of all but the strongest creatures.
Source; Forgotten Realms - The Silver Marches 3.5, pg 35
Beneath the High Forest lies a great and terrible secret. Once the dwarves of old Ammarindar delved deeply beneath the forest, held at that time by the elf kingdom of Eaerlann, but now their mines and hold are overgrown by the colossal entity known as Araumycos - a single great fungus extending through caverns and mines from one end of the High Forest to the other.
Small sections of Araumycos are susceptible to all types of physical attacks, and can be easily destroyed by acid, fire, poison, and other such means. The stuff stubbornly returns sooner than later. Cuttings from the fungus do not survive in other areas; it seems to have reached its greatest possible extent and no longer advances through the Underdark. From time to time, large growths of Araumycos wither and decay, revealing ancient caverns and ruins long covered by the fungus.
Araumycos is generally passive or quiescent, ignoring (or unaware of) even the most destructive intrusions into its body. However, Underdark explorers whisper that this is not always the case. The Great Fungus possesses terrible weapons should it choose to use them - deadly poisons, mobile manifestations similar to various ooze and slime monsters, insidious spores to dominate invaders, and molds that animate the skeletal remains of the creatures they cling to. Some say that the titanic creature possesses unimaginable psionic power and is capable of destroying the minds and wills of all but the strongest creatures.
Source; Forgotten Realms - The Silver Marches 3.5, pg 35