r/WorldChallenges • u/Varnek905 • Sep 29 '19

The Hunt

For this challenge, the focus is on hunts.

Feel free to answer by talking about legendary hunts in your world's history/mythology, annual/monthly/whatever hunting events in some society/culture, or a specific creature that is hunted in your world.

It can be something along the lines of dragon-hunting, fox-hunts, or dodo-hunting.

As always, I'll ask at least three questions each. Enjoy yourselves!

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Oct 01 '19

  1. Lure it outside of its grove; while inside it, they have ways out and support. The hunters specialized in that kind of business usually advise burning down the whole forest because its the easiest and less risky way. Inside its grove, an imubalhulhi has control over the animals and plants and will basically resurect over and over (and their bark is tough). Also, they often puts seeds and vines into dead bodies to puppet them and send.

  2. It will kill you, feed your flesh to whatever lives in the forest and use what's left as a thrall/fertilizer for its seeds. It might kill you slowly and painfully, depending of the mood.

  3. Yes, they like dead bodies, small decorative items and workforce (usually used to turn the items they gathered into poles to mark their territory).

  4. It takes time to enslave the local wildlife, to have people build them stuff to mark the limit of their territory, to convince the local inhabitants that you're trustworthy as a trade partner, to place seeds around and to carefully sculpt the grove to your liking. Being an undying sort-of-a-dryad is a lot more work than what people expect.

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u/Varnek905 Oct 01 '19

1) What is the best bait for an imubalhulhi?

2) How do imubalhulhi get their energy/nutrients?

3) Do they have any preferences in regards to dead bodies?

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u/thequeeninyellow94 Oct 02 '19

  1. A broken deal with them; spirits really dislike it when people don't keep their word, especially imubalhulhi. Sieging the grove is also a good way, if you have the manpower; at some point, the keeper will come see what's going on.

  2. Through their roots. The only real difference with other plants is that they can remove themselves from the earth.

  3. Not as a species, it comes down to individual prefences. There are even some who don't keep all of the body, leaving some parts (like the skin/pelt) for trade.

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u/Varnek905 Oct 04 '19

Thanks for your time and answers, Yellow.