There is a battle for control here that occasionally spills into the open. Everyone who tried to examine and quantify it too closely has been disposed of by the organism. Its structure and aspect are always evolving, and it grows ever bigger while moving very slowly, a few inches every year. Its particular predation and its ability to open portals to other places are likely to be linked. It seems to track individuals of certain kind of intelligence, with changing tastes through time. But it is also a very dangerous predator, who often eats its inhabitants thanks to its 'Maws'. Its assumed original purpose was to create pathways between several points in space and to other dimensions, as its body extend way beyond what can be observed. In itself, it is a massive Numenera, and could be categorized as a discovery. The pathways are sometimes one-way passages to new worlds.

Its interior chambers and great fleshy folds provide any number of places for someone to live and hide, and its hidden pathways can lead daring merchants to great secrets… or to their dooms. It subsists on the thoughts and actions of those who dwell within it, subtly encouraging this behavior in its residents, some of whom it will occasionally devour in part or whole with its many Maws. The Bloom is an enormous, living predatory city at the base of Sagus Cliffs, its black and tarry tendrils reaching out to anchor itself against the gorge walls as it creeps toward the sea.

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