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Research Results for the Thorn of Atrot

The thorn is a spawn of plantlike origin, it however bears traits of powerful magical infusion – like that only seen in the spawn that originate from other planes or creatures which have been changed by a divine or powerful demonic will. This magical infusion infects beings which the thorn has burrowed into. While we speculate that a thorn within a human or flesh-and-blood creature would inevitably result in a slow death, in a plant-like creature it seems to grant undead qualities after it has corrupted the creature, a process which takes only hours to complete. These undead qualities include a hunger for living flesh and the ability to drain positive (life) energy from animals and plants. You suspect that creatures infected with these for an extended period of time will eventually become a motherhost colony for the same plant that spawned the thorn, almost as though the thorn was a seed of sorts – but this process appears to be very slow, a matter of several months at the very least, perhaps more than a year at the outside.
    Several minor references to a “Thorn of Atrot” which “burrowed flesh and in heart wrought devilish decay to all it touched” are referred to in a poem by the bard Gladrane, an adventurer who was shown the temptations and pains of the hells by a temptress demon, and was inspired to write of what he saw when he was returned to the mortal realms, insane. (Dated 12677AC).