Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 9376885" data-attributes="member: 6685541">This is a very appropriate post for a thread necromancy![ATTACH=full]367722[/ATTACH](photo credit: M.Y. SITI-MUNIRAH, science news.com)Fairy Lantern Flowers are parasitic plants that spend decades underground, feeding off of the roots of other plants. They lack the ability to photosynthesize, but still require pollination, so they emerge every once in a while to attract insects. They have strange, tentacle-like pedals and brightly colored insides.In a D&D campaign, Fairy Lantern Flowers could require pollinators from the Faerie Realms. They spend decades beneath the ground, feeding from the roots of trees (which will then grow sickly or warped into strange, almost humanoid shapes), then rise on long stalks, almost floating into the air and glowing. Their long tendrils open portals into Faerie Realms and summon strange creatures to collect their pollen. Patient faeries keep track of the life cycles of Fairy Lantern Flowers and use these opportunities to make quick jaunts into Mortal Realms, gathering treasure or servants and leaping back to their home worlds before the flowers retreat to beneath the soil. Mages and druids seek out trees with the signature warp of the parasitic flowers and await their blooming, planning out ways to worship, trick, or even trap the faeries that pass through!</blockquote>