Mushroomites

Mushroomites

**Origin:** Ruotta

**Capital/original settlement:** N/A

**Natural Lifespan:** 10-15 years

**Traits:**

Fungal variation; the Mushroomites are perhaps misnomered to be called a species, they are more akin to a vast taxonomy of commonly bound and categorized moving and sentient fungal folk. They are capable of coming in all the shapes and sizes and varieties of the fungal flora of the deep forest. From every variety of colour to vast differentials in size, there is no definitive description of the Mushroomites.

Thinking Plants; whether due to anomalous energies animating them or some biological mutation the Mushroomites are capable of independent thought and free will, although not necessarily intelligent to a notable degree the Mushroomites show the signs of true sentience and awareness.

Immunity to toxins and poisons; perhaps because of an antiseptic anatomy or biological functions that work totally immersed in toxic elements due the fungal nature of their anatomy; the Mushroomites found themselves entirely immune to all forms of toxin and poison - something their native habitat is positively aflow with.

**Society:**

Its wrong to call what communal elements the Mushroomites possess a society; its more like a constantly shifting colony of individual components working towards some vague haze in the direction of continued survival. What little they do together as a group is related to the preparation and eating of other fungal forms (never any variation of mushroomites themselves, but static and unintelligent fauna and flora). Their knowledge of the various species of the forest, deep and perimeter is unspoken and in-depth. The knowledge a mushroomite possesses instinctively throughout their lifetime on the various species of fungal life is extensive to say the least, and without parallel.

**Advancements:**

*Culinary Knowledge*; the Mushroomites have developed a common 'code' of what parts of which fungal species are indeed nutritious in their diet and which taste the best together. Through the miraculous invention of small fires used for cooking more than warmth, the Mushroomites begin preparing a variety of cooking styles and dishes based on their local environment.

*Crude Writing*; the Mushroomites have self-developed the ability to write in hieroglyphics only discernible to their small optical sensors, written usually in fungal resins on pieces of slate or granite scavenged from rocky outcroppings. One might wonder what the Mushroomites have to write about; the answer is actually fascinating in their invention of primitive 'cook books' through the use of communal recipes written on slate and preserved at the centre of communal spaces - to be referred to in group cookings. These recipes are valued above all else in their communities and treasured.

*Crude toolmaking*; perhaps as a means of creating their 'cook books' or as a result of playing with stones in increasing frequency, the Mushroomites have developed the use of primitive tools fashioned from pieces of sharpened stone - often flint - and tool-handles made from hardened and resin-dried fungal woods. These tools have made fire-making and cooking increasingly more accessible to the Mushroomite colonies springing up along the continent, as they are able to dice and slice their ingredients to a vastly finer scale.

**Sects:**

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