In the novels, echinopsae are depicted as animals and they resemble hedgehogs. They are described as monsters covered in long and very sharp spines. They can shoot these up to a distance of ten feet. On impact, the spines shatter and the pieces work their way ever deeper into the body of the victim. Their spines are so long that when they are immobile, echinops resemble clumps of grass.
"Echinopsae are monstrous plants born of curses which grow in places where terrible crimes have been committed if the crime in question was never atoned for. The beasts try to take their vengeance on criminals, but they do not spare the lives of innocents who haplessly enter their territory."
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Occurrence:
Echinopsae grow in places where crimes have been committed or on the graves of the victims of such crimes
Their remains will not contain Echinops Rootstock unless you have this bestiary entry.
Like a lot of the floral life presented in the game and the books, Echinops can be found in the real world, too: it's the genus of both the daisy family Asteraceae and Madagascarian mammal family Tenrecidae.