Bramble Ent
Research Completion: 09/19/2026
Researcher: Carson Black
Aggression Level: Aggressive
Class: Ambush Predator
Nicknames: Octo-thorn
Base description:
Bramble Ents are octopods, with eight thorned serpent like tendrils. They look completely like a dead thorn bush. The best way to identify one, is by counting the amount of branches and following where the branches attach to the bush. They are completely blind, but that means nothing for how deadly they are. They are absolute ambush predators, that rarely ever move from their selected location. Even during winter, they enter suspended animation to survive.
Bramble Ents primarily like to live in and around swampy and dead areas, but can also me found sometimes in dense forests. Be sure to pay attention to your surroundings, when in those areas.
Reproduction:
Even though Bramble Ents are an all female species, they perform Pseudocopulation. When the summer heat kicks in; Bramble Ents will stop hiding and look too group up, creating a “Wave of Ents”. When the Ents find a minimum three, they migrate to the closest open area to start nesting. Occasionally both an Ent that has not yet found a wave, and/or another wave, will merge with an existing nesting wave.
When a Wave of Ents start to nest, they all start tangling together. Once each Ent has found their spot, they start laying their eggs. As they lay the eggs, they use their tendrils to stick each egg under the thorns of the surrounding Ents. Once each Ent has finished spreading their eggs, they assume their usual still position. Attacking and sharing any creature stupid enough to get too close. Once the temperature starts to drop below an average of 20°C, the Ents spread back out into the wild.
When an egg hatches, the baby Ent will climb down to the ground an immediately pose itself.
Fighting style:
Bramble Ents pose super still and fake being blown by wind, all to make themselves look like a dead thorned bush. Even it’s skin pattern and thorns look like a plant. They will try to attack and eat anything that gets too close. Though Bramble Ents are completely blind, they feel the movement in the ground around them. Once something gets close enough; they lash out with their tendrils, rapping them around it’s prey so it can not escape. Then drawing it close, crushing it, then trying to eat it as fast as possible to resume it’s original position.
If it’s prey manages to escape, the thorns break off upon contact. Causing the prey to likely, based on it’s size, bleed out to death.
Baby Ents are just as aggressive, but due to their size, often fail when trying to attack something too big.
Be sure to only attack from afar!
Edibility/Recourses:
Bramble Ents are primarily muscle, and tastes similar to land serpents. Though they have a lot of bones, their skeleton is very fragile. An Ents thorns are just as pointy and flimsy as common thorn bushes, but are great for arrow heads. Their hide is flexible, but not good for leather as it tears easily for it’s thorns. It’s teeth are too small for any sort of use.
Myths:
Due to their appearance and most common habitat; some people think these creatures are born when a biome starts to decay, and they spread the decay as they move outward.
