Species: Everlasting Bindings
Family: Conjoiner
Risk level: High
Weaknesses: Any source of light
Description: This specific monster if a conjoiner between plants and living shadows. It grows in any location that is dark enough, this includes cellars, basements, caves and sewers. Fortunately, it requires massive amounts of uninterrupted time in order to grow, so it can only form in places not touched by human presence, or anything living in fact and to remain as that for a few years. When all of the above is successfully secured it then sprouts a single shadowy vine from the ground.
Even in this basic form it is very dangerous, because it can extend its appendage to very disproportional lenghts and ensare anything it is able to reach. It is also born with an ability to travel to any nearby shadow in order to search for any prey. Using that, it can move for around ten meters in a single instance and it can repeat this around twenty times a minute. It gives it a very fast movement and makes it very hard to catch it under normal circumstances.
When it manages to find a prey it then catches it using its vine and then slowly drains it from all of the energy. It then uses the energy to create more vines for itself, expanding its already deadly abilities. There is no known limit to the amount of vines it is able to wield , which makes it exponentially more dangerous with every successful hunt. It can be harmed, and even killed, using normal light sources, like torches and lamps, but in order to do that it is required to firstly cut away all of its escape routes, which is rather hard considering the fact that it can teleport to any nearby shadow.
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To make sure it is unable to escape there needs to be a constant number of watched light sources encircling the perimeter of its location. It must be keeped save, otherwise it will try to extinguish the lights. Then specialized experts must search the entire area for its direct location and force it to remain long enough inside the light to vanquish the creature. It is highly recommended to regulary visit any dark place under your possession to minimize the risk of it manifesting inside of it.
Personal notes: "After examining the bodies of its victims we came upon a terrifying discovery regarding its consumption. It not only sucks out all energy from the corpse, leaving it as dry husk, but it also directly absorbes the remaining soul remnants. That means that the more it kills, the more it hunts, it becomes smarter, more cunning. It explaines how it is able to so effectively avoid the traps we lay for it and how it becomes harder to get rid of it the longer it lives. It is one of the monsters of the highest priority to hunt down. Any sightings of it must be immediately reported to avoid as much losses as possible and to prevent it from growing to smart for our own comfort." Tertic Malone, priest of the Church of the afterlife