Pifglig

== Description ==
=== Appearance ===
Pifglig (piff-glig) is a creature that is like a flower. It has blue petals with red on each point. Vines are also attached to pifgligs, and they use the vines as arms. Each vine has a cluster of thorns on each tip. Its petals turn into big thorns when under attack. It can't move, (unless if another creature un-plants them,) so pifgligs sometimes shoot their thorns to attack. The thorns/petals can travel from ten to fifteen feet.
=== Diet ===
Pifgligs eat nutrients in the soil. Regular plants would gather this by using their roots, but pifgligs eat more like humans, using their arms to put food in their mouths. Pifgligs don't need much food per day. They also drink in a unique way. Once again, they don't use plant uptake. In this situation they just gather dew and droplets in the grass to get their water. They are unable to use their arms to do this. but they can use their thorny vines to rip off blades of grass and drink like that.
=== Habitat ===
Pifgligs normally live on dry plains, but they can be found in forests. Rarely you'll find them in marshes, but littergies, littergues, and litterjoys, all live there, so it would be a bad place for a pifglig to live. They can't un-plant themselves, so once they are made, they cannot be moved. Other creatures can un-plant them though. If that creature wants the pifglig to live, then it must replant the pifglig within thirty seconds.
=== Friends/Enemies ===
Pifglig is part of the prickly plant trio, along with kragnia. Pifgligs serve Yanth. They like to have fun with poomfas, as no other creatures really ever notice them. They get along since pifgligs are immune to poomfas. They spend a great deal of time with them, which can result in pifgligs not being ready for an attack. All members from the psychic bug trio attack pifgligs, so a friendly poomfa would normally help rid them. In return, pifgligs try to shoot down sturshes that attack their puffy friends.
== Lore ==
=== Origin ===
When Evernary first created bounkrips, back before they had spines, Yanth realized that something needed to be done about them. He created pifgligs as the perfect defense system against the bounkrips. The reason they are friends with poomfas are because although they are mainly meant to be defense against bounkrips, they are also good defenses against other creatures, like sturshes, who annoy poomfas very much.
=== Prophecy ===
Pifgligs will almost completely die out during the war, due to the fact that they are sent on the front lines. Not much else is known about pifgligs, but one pifglig will rise to be a commander over a lot of Yanth's creatures and take out many of Evernary's creatures.
== Magic ==
Magic is not very popular among pifgligs. They can learn magic, but most have no interest in it. Very few pifgligs have learned magic, only four in recorded history, and three were exiled while one did it secretly. Because of this, however, most magic (except for strong spells) won't work on them. This can sometimes be bad when they are on the front lines, because a wardaden may not be able to heal them.
== Trivia ==
* Pifglig roots grow up to about two feet long.
* The stems of a pifglig is very, strong. It takes heavy equipment like an ax to break a pifglig's stem.
* When pifgligs shoot their petals, it would be able to sink about a half of an inch into your skin.
* A group of pifgligs (very rare) is called a patch.
* Pifgligs always check their food before eating it to see if there are any members of psychic bug trio hiding inside, because one of the members of this trio could kill pifglig from the inside out.
* Pifgligs don't have families, although they do sometimes spread seeds. 
** They do produce seeds that create other pifgligs though.
* The fourth creature made by the devs was pifglig.
* Pifglig pollen does not cause allergies, even if you are strongly allergic to pollen.
* Pifgligs, if on the right soil, can sink their roots into the ground to plant themselves if uprooted
* Salt water makes pifgligs tired
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