Mundus Deus (NSFW, Visions, souls and airships)

The ent should be androgynous of course, and reproduce by pollination with the kind assistance of some flying insect. The gentlemenbug are far too polite to do anything this lewd; the ent will be pollinated by a lecherous cadbeetle.

I vote that the ent should be hermaphroditic, as many plants are. Ent fruit, turn out to be highly attractive to the jackalotaurs (which then act as surrogate parents, as the ent seeds sprout in their stomachs. Then they have an instinctual urge to return to the ent just before the growing entling grows too much for their small bodies to handle. Actual birth, be very messy, though the jackalotaurs reproduce fast enough on their own, so that "ent surrogacy" doesn't impact their numbers much.)

The ent white bark skin grew and its body shape became androgynous. Slender and rippled with what looks like muscles. Its head grows branches like horns and grow thick with leaves. Ink flowers grow and bloom. White petals and black stigma.

Cad beetles fly in and “oh no they humping the flowers!” cross pollinated them before flying off, covered in black pollen.

The flowers shed its petals and began to bulge at the base of the flower. A fruit begins to grow but not the same as the ink fruit however. The shape was oval in shape, similar to a mango, pink with black splotches.

A fruit fell off and landed on the platform.
One of the stumpkins, picked it up and examined it.
Feeling it, the skin of the fruit felt soft and smelt sweet like strawberries



The stumpkin bit into the fruit, the flesh was bright pink with tiny black dot seeds,
Similar to kiwi or dragon fruit.
She picked the tiny seed out and then used her magic to grow it…. Nothing happened
Again she used her magic…. Still nothing happened. Confused she tried again a third time

Nothing. This is odd. With the pink mango in hand, she headed down and planted the seed into the earth beside the tree ent.

The tree ent crouched down and watched inquisitively



Again she used her growing magic on the small mound of dirt.
No a single sprout emerged. The stumpkin sighed with disappointment.

She was about to take another bite from the fruit again, then saw a jackataur only a foot in front of her. How did it get so close without anyone knowing?
Cautiously the jackotaur approached the stumpkin, sniffing in her direction.
Its attention then focused on the pink fruit. She notices and holds out the fruit to the jackolope.

The jackotaur slowly takes the pink fruit from the stumpkin, then starts nibbling the pink mango.



Cautiously she reached out and stroked the ears of the jackotaur which didn't seem to mind.
The jackotaur chirps as it's being stroked

Eventually it wandered away with the fruit, back into the forest.

The stumpkin followed the jackotaur, the ent picked up the little stumpkin, placed her on its shoulder and followed the jackotaur.

Awaiting commands

Does the fruit effect the stumpkin? Or is the stumpkin immune?

I imagine the entlings bursting out of its victim (alien)/ victims slowly turn into ents / pooped out (gross) / or mutate the dna of the victim so the offspring is born a ent