Category:Crawling Ivy

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These innocuous-looking but highly carnivorous plants are known to be encountered in the following domains: Barovia[1], Forlorn[2], Invidia[3], Mordent[4], Sithicus[5], the Shadow Rift[6],Souragne[7],Tepest[8], and Valachan[9]. They often can be encountered serving as guardians.

As one might expect, crawling ivy strikes nearby prey from ambush, first using an entangle effect to keep the prey from escaping and then strangling them with mighty vines. However, the grip of a crawling ivy also has much more dangerous consequences. Given enough time, crawling ivy can strangle its grappled victims. The leaves of a crawling ivy act as suction mechanisms to drain the blood of its prey, afflicting additional damage.[10]

Crawling ivy is thought to have been artificially created through the use of arcane experimentation. Fitting, as they can make adept guardians if regularly fed.[10]

Crawling ivy gained a measure of noteriety after Julia Fyrehaaven applied the plant to the task of killing her husband, a professor at the University of Il Aluk. Professor Abelhous Nicholsi was also attacked, but he not only survived his encounter with the plant but his subsequent investigation of the matter exposed the crime. Spurred by the episode, Doctor Nicholsi would subsequent under take a study of dread plants.

Among many other dread plants, crawling ivy can be found in abundance in Murillia, sometimes with high sentience but evil alignment.[11]

Descriptive Text

Handsome large dark-green leaves with magenta veins, flourishes in semi-shaded areas and does not require rich soil. Available as clipping, unusual transport requirements double normal delivery price.

N.B. Tends to be invasive & can be intractable without careful handling. NOT RECOMMENDED for the casual enthusiast.

-Beauraix' Commercial Catalogue of Flora[12]

References

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Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III
Denizens of Darkness

Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p62
Denizens of Darkness - p117

Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p62
Bleak House: Homecoming - p35, p50
Denizens of Darkness - pp113, 116-117

Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p62
Denizens of Darkness - pp116-117

Plant, Crawling Ivy Crawling Ivy Plant


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