"Climb the fungal-fibre ladders to its summit. Shaggy, suspicious villagers scratch a living here, amidst endless clouds of spores and scurrying mobs of plant-animal hybrids. None of them ever leave. "Monsters," one explains darkly. "Zee full of monsters."[1]
The Uttershroom is a giant mushroom in the southern Unterzee.
Mother of Mushrooms[]
There is little animal life here, though fungi thrive. The few people who live here are addicted to prisoner's honey, and although they hate living here, they are too scared of zee-monsters to leave.[2][3] These inhabitants are related to the people of the Chelonate, who are famed monster hunters.[4]
The Uttershroom is also the original home of the Blemmigans, who act as the Uttershroom's spores and spread her influence across the zee.[5][6]