Yateveo

Name	Yateveo
Race	Monster
Type	Plant
Faction	Independent
Premiere	Desideratum: Blood Bonds
Relative(s)	None Applicable

In J. W. Buel's Sea and Land (1887) the Yateveo plant is described as being native to Africa and Central America, so named for producing a hissing sound similar to the Spanish phrase "ya-te-veo" (lit. “I-see-you”), and having poisonous “spines” that resemble “many huge serpents in an angry discussion, occasionally darting from side to side as if striking at an imaginary foe” which seize and pierce any creature coming within reach. Thought as fanciful folklore by current biologists, these men actually did encounter a yateveo. Yateveoes are huge tree monsters whose branches wriggle and writhe. Covered in bark like a normal tree, they will use these branches to skewer or gasp prey which they then consume in their tooth-filled maws. They can sprout roots underground as well, which then pup up under prey to hold it while the yateveo advances. Lastly, being as large and heavy as any other tree, they can literally crush their prey under their enormous feet. Absinthe Van Gothen encountered yateveoes when she came to Forest National Park the night that the Night Stalkers, Sani Lightfoot and Katerina Mordova, arrived to aid the dryad Draeope against the plague witches of Baba Yaga.