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furlix, more commonly called a ghost fungus, are freshwater fungus which lives similarly to animals, this is due to them growing onto already living creatures and manipulating its muscles and brain to guide them towards other ghost fungi and exchange spores, though this process is a bit different than youd expect, due to ghost fungi thriving off of mobility they will keep the thousands of spores the other fungi provided within a small sac within their cap which they will release them alongside their own spores upon finding a suitable corpse, though if they are threatened they are capable of defending themselves by expelling their toxic spores all around the threat until it dies, since they can grow asexually if the spores arent relaxed by the specialized fluid in the sac they will start developing into ghost fungi, this allows for systemized colonies of ghost fungi controlling and eating away at large animals which, allows them to grow anywhere they wish, in some ecosystems they completely dominate the lake or river, but in others the animals are smarter and avoid the ghost fungi, though it would be beneficial for them to be more disguised to dominate the ecosystem, but they dont have much pressure to do as such since they thrive without dominating, they were commonly considered a bad omen in early dumunoan myth, due to their drive to find more fungi and corpses to reproduce which allows them to be manipulated by modern dumunoan humans and even other animals, with this manipulation they can be driven to find other things such as certain plants and animals and fungi and even certain minerals, if you have any questions regarding this fungi please dont be afraid to ask