Bhaktim Monster Party

Bhaktim Monster Party

Contents

1-Intro
2-Bhaktim
3-Shaping Magic
4-Living Land/ Toxic Jungle
5-Wild Forest Women
6-Blessed Land Apes
7-Ixtal
8-Water watchers
9- burn worms


Intro
Rather then typing up a few new creatures, I thought It would better to put
out a background/ framework where the collective could have more of a
monster making sandbox, like our own virtual Vincent Price Shrunken
Apple-head doll kit. - a Bhaktim Monster Party

Bhaktim
For me the interesting thing about the Bhaktim is that they have an inverse
relationship to reality and the dreaming when compared to most living
creatures that makes it difficult to pin down a likely course of action or a
motive at all for them. They wish to keep the dreaming somewhat pristine,
and are willing to unleash all kinds of experiments on reality to do it,
treating it like their own ball of putty to play with. While this seems
paradoxical, and less effective to many, a closer look at their roll as
custodians of the great snake good reveals otherwise.
The serpents body is part of the Horroth and Panchayyah lands, but it's
mind wanders the dreaming. By creating a greater level of commonality
between the two the will of the snake god is more readily made manifest.
They do this by trapping creatures from the dreaming with their powers and
shaping magic, forcing them into material form. They also accomplish their
goal of greater balance between the dreaming and real world by creating a
more primordial environment that is more friendly to the dreaming in the
form of both the living lands and the toxic jungle.

Shaping Magic
Using something akin to the idea of Platonic and Jungian archetypes, shaping
magic is a powerful, ancient gift to the first Bhaktim from Nagrisi herself.
While in the real world the Bhaktim assume the approximate shape of a living
creature, then enter the dreaming with their minds to fundamentally change
it. It's use on intelligent imaginative and willful creatures is time
consuming. The process can also be reversed in the sense that they can use
it to contain creatures of the dreaming to a lesser degree as well. The
Bhaktim also have shamanist powers akin to the 7 temples, and access to
powerful ancient sorceries as well.

Living Land/ Toxic Jungle
The living land that is created by source seeds is an evolutionary step
between the living land and conventional jungles that may peacefully
co-exist in any degree with each. It offers an increase plant yield, and a
vastly more potent playing field for reciprocal shamanist magic.
The toxic jungle is created when the Bhaktim create green and yellow gas
geysers that transform the Living land into a place that is very primordial
and mystically potent with a deep connection to the dreaming. Everything in
it grows larger, and creatures that wander in will be changed from prolonged
exposure. Extensive unfiltered breathing of unconsolidated gas over days
will induce madness in humans. The Bhaktim seal Geysers and open new ones
most patches of Toxic jungle move at a rate of about 10-50 yards a day. It
avoids most major paths, and established villages. The Living land that has
been touched by the living jungle enjoys a brief period of explosive growth
before returning and shrinking to normal over the course of several months.
The Toxic Jungle expresses itself as a constant percentage of the Living
land.

Creatures

Wild Forest Women
Wild Forest Women are used by the Bhaktim to introduce new genetic and
botanical traits into the Panchayyah lands, people to experiment on, or
manage the population. They are created from enemy warriors or excess male
Panchayyah. They are simple minded with the addition of 1 or 2 phobias from
their previous existence. Their bodies are shapely pale and green with leafy
hair that grows source seeds. They reproduce 30 percent faster then
conventional females, and remain actively fertile for much longer. The
children are generally normal, but have a chance of being called away to the
toxic jungle after puberty. The women themselves tend to stay at the edges
of the toxic jungle and are seen as the Panchayyah males on patrol as a gift
from the Bhaktim when they are far away from their families on patrol and
seed gathering. The women may also be captured and domesticated.

Blessed Land Apes
Blessed Land Apes are the massive guardians of the jungle. They move land
and plant when needed. They also are benevolently disposed to humans,often
leaving omens and warnings for them. They range from 9 to 25 feet tall and
appear as massive green armored gorillas with the heads of frogs. On their
backs grow grass and fruit bearing branches. They are used by the bhaktim as
bouncers, movers, and heavies. They tend to take it personally when people
are disrespectful to the environment.

Ixtal
The Ixtal are Igors, and assistants to the Bhaktim. They are useful for
their multiple appendages and sensory stalks. They are highly intelligent
and know magic. The Bhaktim are able to maintain a mental connection with
them while they are in the dreaming. They appears as 12-18 ft. high antlered
skull with burning eyes with a body of long earthworm like tentacles.

Water watchers
Water watchers are camouflaged observers for the Bhaktim. When viewed from
above the waterline they appear as small caiman, but that is just a facade
It is merely a buoyant decoy armor that houses a creature more like a cross
between a water boat man insect, and a millipede. The mouth of the Caiman
opens to a complex array of sensory and filter feeding stalks that are made
to resemble plants. These creatures purpose is presently unknown.

burn worms
Burn worms grow around the Geysers in a manner much like tunnels warms do as
part of a deep sea hydrothermal vent community. They feed on and filter the
gas. Their defense is to secret a medium grade acid. They reproduce by
creating a gas filled balloon with immature worms attached to sail above
predation and the forest canopy in search of another geyser. The majority of
these fly out of the toxic jungle where there are eagerly shot down and
taken for innumerable uses by the Panchayyah. Because they are chemically
sensitive, the Bhaktim are able to gather these and weave them together like
a Chinese finger trap. This tube is used to create and secure underground
chambers where geysers are placed for experimentation, and storage.