Thornslinger

Thornslingers were a species of carnivorous plant that could be found in the Realms.

Description
These plants had largely a spidery-white hue, with pale-yellow blossoms, and grew close to the ground. Their central core was covered in a dew with strong adhesive qualities, which kept their prey immobile. On average they grew to have a radius of.

Behavior
These plants possessed no form of sentience.

Biology
Thornslingers were not very flammable plants.

Combat
Thornslingers were so named because they had a near inexhaustible amount of thorns that they hurled in a spread pattern at living creatures. These thorns could typically reach targets as far away as.

History
In the eastern stretches of Battledale, vegepygmy cultivated thornslingers as companions. As the plants reproduced at an unsustainable rate, the mold men buried the excess seeds in a nearby tract of shallow swampland. Some time in the 12 century DR, a small human village known as Lowdner annexed this swampland despite protests from the mold men. Lowdner's farmers filled the swampland with fresh earth to toil, which activated the dormant seedlings. Over the course of a few months the thornslingers grew across Lowdner, in their corn fields and along the stone walls of farm houses. With the plants replenishing their numbers faster than the farmers could remove them, Lowdner gradually fell apart.

Habitats
Thornslingers were very adaptable plants, able to thrive in a variety of terrain and climates. However, they were typically encountered in remote or secluded places, such as pits or caves. They also were known to grow upon stone or brick walls.

In Faerun they could be found growing in parts of Cormanthor, Cormyr, Sembia, the Dalelands, and much of the North. In West Faerûn they could be found in the central moors of High Moor, near the Misty Forest, and near the Serpent Hills.

Outside of the Prime Material plane, thornslingers were quite common in the savannahs of Yeenoghu's realm in the Abyss.