The Fungal Consortium

Throughout The Deeps are stretches of fungal bloom that can only be described as forests or even jungles to those used to life above ground. These humid thickets of rot and rebirth are home not only to towering mushroom “trees” and spongey undergrowths of a variety of mosses and molds vying for dominance over the “forest floor,” but also to elusive predators and shambling, zombie-like mushroom-men. While these blooms sound virulent and hostile to life as we typically understand it, and they certainly can be that, they also provide valuable resources for those Dhogem with the heart and stomach to challenge them.
Dhogem of many cultures and societies rely on these fungal blooms for “lumber” and often as reliable supplies of exotic foodstuffs and spices for their dishes based on monster ecology; however these only scratch the surface of what the fungal blooms have to offer -- and to hide.
Behind the sweltering veil of shade and decay these outcrops of natural resources also conceal a vast network of magic as well. Magic writ into the bones of the earth, songs sung by Eldar Beings whose notes can only be fully appreciated by those able to feel with hearts that beat as one with the World That Was, or by the Void Children, with voices yet unsinging, who wait to be born within the incubation chambers of the Stars, those mythical balls of flame set in the Swallowing Sea of Severance that Dhogem have only dreamt about.
Hidden within these halls that hang upon the edge of life and death, a very old council of druidic Dhogem tend to the rot, operating in secrecy, observing the state of affairs all across The Deeps. They have outposts in these heady blooms nearby all of the major Dhogem settlements and spies everywhere the spores of their domain can spread. In the rare circles in which any information of these druids is known, rumors are spread that it is the spores of the blooms themselves that control even the Dhogem of the Consortium and that, given the opportunity, these fungi would enslave every living thing that moves in The Deeps.

Type

Druidic Circle

Location

The Deeps