It’s unclear how Zuggtmoy’s spores spread, so you can decide they work in whatever way suits your campaign. Plots: The nice thing about Zuggtmoy’s spores is their intentional ambiguity. Only certain types of elemental seem completely immune-it would take a special kind of spore to take hold in a creature made entirely of fire. Infested golems wouldn’t be followers per se but they do give her a different sort of minion.
An intelligent undead may have goals in line with hers and may not interpret the loss of control any differently from being a slave to its own needs. She probably has fewer than a dozen such followers in any given campaign setting.Ī weirder, but possibly more interesting option, is letting her spores infect creatures without metabolism. Both are valid tragic villain archetypes when done right, but strawman disappointments when done poorly. They generally fall into two camps: the people insane enough to think a world without animals is a suitable price for a world without society, and the people stupid enough to think they can maintain their identity when she controls their every movement and thought. It’s a perfect fit.Ītypical Followers: Intentional followers of Zuggtmoy are much, much rarer. I’m trying to avoid using any 5E material beyond the core rulebooks and the demon lords themselves, but I have to give a special mention here to the Circle of Spores archetype for the druid. Anything with a metabolism can be home to spores that control its body and brain: a human, a goblin, an elephant, a beholder, anything.
Typical Followers: Almost any creature can be an unintentional follower of Zuggtmoy. The bodies themselves are just a useful tool, spreading her sickness far and wide, increasing her reach until nobody can escape her authority. Instead she uses spores to infect, destroy, and control anything and everything she can. She does not intentionally attract worshippers, because anything capable of worship is probably anathema to her. Her methods are even more insidious than those of other demon lords. She seeks a world cleansed of all animal life, leaving only plants and fungi as part of a single universe-spanning organism. She has no set form, no race who pledges its undying loyalty, no meaningful creatures on the Material Plane because creatures mean nothing to her. Her inhumanity rivals that of any demon lord, an amorphous mass that only occasionally deigns to present itself as somewhat humanoid.
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