Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-26545936-20170810204547

Family/Type: Dryad/Plant

Habitat: Wonderland

Dispositon: Lustful, devoted, passionate, lonely

Diet: Nutrients from the ground, men's spirit energy, magical energy

A Wonderland varient of the Dryad, exclusive to the mad realm itself.

The first of the Gnarls was a Dryad that pleaded to the Queen of Hearts to allow herself to be no longer bound by the confines of her tree. The husband of the Dryad was a wizard of great power, but even he couldn't change the nature of the tree-bound elemental. The Queen of Hearts in her infinite mercy decided to bestow upon the Dryad a moveable form, along with a couple other perks. In-exchange for loyalty to the crown... hers. To which the newly formed Gnarl gleefully acknowledged.

Appearance wise, the main aspect of the Gnarls is their lower barky tri-pod-like body, these three legs that they have are like thick, animated roots. These 'legs' make the Gnarls movement quite jerky and jumpy, but don't make a mistake, this doesn't mean they aren't fast. On the contrary, they are quite speedy. Their arms also share the same nature of being like bark and their hands are twisting vines and hardened roots as 'fingers.' Despite their look, they can be used as effective 'slamming' or 'stabbing' weapons if threatened, but their qualities are like Demon Realm Silver, only a bit more lustful. Sticking out of their backs are small branches of a sort, some going as far as to their lower head, but never completely invasive. There are two main types of bark that a Gnarl can have, one is that of almost like a birch tree in color and texture, perhaps a bit more colorful then that. There are also ones that are like swamp-wood, dark browns if you will, almost black, but not completely.

Now, the Gnarls are magically-bound to serve as the Queen of Hearts eyes and ears... mainly eyes. They make sure everything isn't and is out of schedule at the same time, the tea parties, the 'guests' that 'arrive,' weddings, approved guides, everything more or less. They make sure everything isn't and is in check. Some even say the Queen can see through the eyes of all Gnarls in Wonderland, making the above statement quite literal. These tri-poded mamono hold a slackened gaze upon all of the going-ons (and sometimes not) upon the mad realm. Making some enemies among the other mamono in the realm that just want to have fun, but it isn't the day for that sort of fun.

Some Gnarls abuse this role of semi-power to get men they quite fancy, saying that he is needed at a tea party when a Jabberwock is upon them, or that the Queen requests him upon a Cheshire Cat about to throw secretly push him into a lake of sexual fluids. Gnarls are also quite attracted to those with magical power or at the very least ones with potential for magic, these users mayhaps find their visit in Wonderland to go quite... smoothly as the Gnarl pulls strings after strings to keep them safe from the other denizens of the mad realm. Only for them to end up in the Gnarl's waiting and loving arms. To those that try to get away from a Gnarl's reach is quite hard as well, as she can just as pull as many strings to get them into trouble as she can get them out of it.

If perhaps assaulted by a ungrateful magic-user, The attacker might find themselves baffled as they are unable to cast spells. Yes, when the Queen of Hearts turned that first Dryad into a Gnarl, she looked upon the wizard with delight as she thought of a way to make him bend under the mamono's lustful embrace. Gnarls have the ability to cast a spell that silences a magic-user, effectively making it so that they cannot cast spells for a short period of time. And even if they do manage to cast a damaging spell at the Gnarl, they will absorb the magic and grow bigger, both in height and... width. While also becoming more resistant to that specific damage-type. However this comes its own downsides, this 'growth' doesn't last forever and while they are resistant to that damage-type, they become vulnerable to all other magic damage.

Either way, if the magic-user is subdued or grateful and willing in the first place, they will commence intercourse, of which will be quite a long evening if so. As a remnant of their passionate nature from when they were a Dryad still remains and stays so especially when making love. As a byproduct of their job that no other mamono of Wonderland descent would take, they are quite lonely in a regard and that also translate to a more fervent love-making. Lovers will find themselves entangled in many roots of the Gnarl's own making as they bind them to each other for as long as they need to satisfy themselves... Which is probably a lot, more times then one can count that a husband has lost consciousness on the first night of love-making due to everything being so pent up. The more love-making a Gnarl has with her husband, the more powerful her 'Forest Stillness' ability will be and how much longer her growth ability will last. Some old Gnarl are even said to be able to make themselves permanently 'bigger' if their husband is into that sort of kinky-play. Though not many make into that level of power I'm sure.

Its at this point in time, the Queen of Hearts realized a rather serious mistake she made in the creation of the Gnarls, like a Golem almost, a Gnarl can 'strip' herself of her magic-bound duties and not be forced to do her 'job' anymore upon finding a husband, something much greater then anything like that could do. In the end, however, the Queen didn't care, she was amused at first and then when it had become its own thing she just let it bloom like the beautiful little relationship it is. Afterall, there are plenty more unwed Gnarls out there still doing their job, being loyal to the Queen. These ones however, would be more loyal to their husbands in the end. Those that stay bound however are usually a bit more free from their duties in the first place and their husband gets to enjoy the luxuries of being wed to a task-master of the Queen of Hearts... which is not much I'm afraid, other then the bossing around of other Wonderland mamono, which if you are into harems. It might be quite useful. Most Gnarls are indifferent to the concept.

There are rumors of Gnarls simply known as Chaos Gnarls, the appearance of which, and what they do is unknown, though some say they have a spell of which its effects are quite random in nature. But that is all apparently, the rumors have appeared quite frequently, so that is why they are given any acknowledgement at all. 