Species: Helping Hand

Family: Plant

Risk level: Beneficial/Medium

Weaknesses: Fire

Description: A simple vine with five branchings at the end of it. It is connected to the ground by a set of roots, and wrapped around to a single tree. At first it is a very friendly creature, helping when help is needed, and often saves anyone in danger. They also help with ways back to civilization if lost in the woods, and provides sustanance when malnoutrished.

Their agressive nature makes itself known only after they save someone enough times to bond with them. It is dependable on the age of the individual, time frame between each helps and direct sympathy of the person towards it, but usualy doesn't extend beyond five times. Then they start to think of that person as a member of its "family" and wants it to stay that way. And in their way of thinking that means trapping that person with itself and not letting anyone else get near that person. In that state they also stop helping others and focus on only their captive.

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They are extremely dangerous when agitated due to the fact that they can, to some extend, manipulate the flora in their surroundings to to their will. There are no known cases of freeing its victims from it, but it was possible to for some time pacify it by setting it on fire.

When their captive dies of old age they bury their body underground and by some unknown means turn them into another member of its species. After around a year, when the new plant is big enough, the first one rips it out of ground, and throws it as far from its territory as possible, which is around ten kilometers. It is advised to avoid them if you were already saved by one.

Personal notes: "A have mixed feeling about this speciment. On one hand it is intelligent enough to recognize others and have the capibility to make bonds and feel sympathetic to others. On the other it is also capable of extreme greed and violence, and can turn around their entire behaviour in the matter of moments. That gives one simple question. Is every single intelligent being inherently evil, or is that just a twisted idea of wanting to protect something?" Unnamed botanist