Illustration by Daimera    "Mortasheen" is my personal fantasy world that I've been populating with my own original monsters since 2003; a continent-spanning, nightmarish post-apocalyptic city, Mortasheen is inhabited by all manner of ghouls, mutants and mad scientists who depend on the bizarre powers of their monster creations and friends in nearly every aspect of their lives, settling all disputes with grisly monster-on-monster combat.    In a nutshell, Mortasheen is a "battle monster" concept (ala Pocket Monsters, Digimon, and so forth) with a horror motif, though despite its over-the-top violence and bleak setting, I like to think that it's not at all an evil place; its monstrous denizens lead innocently cheerful lives, indifferent to the constant threat of death and blissfully accustomed to their nightmarish surroundings. Take every classic trope of horror in the book and combine it with the carefree optimism of a children's show.    Below is a list of every single monster in my current "canon" - just click their names for my illustration and details. Game projects are currently in the works (no dates just yet) and you may enjoy my short flash cartoon or find something you like in the STICKER SHOP. Follow updates and view the most recent monsters on MORTASHEEN'S TWITTER. BIOCONSTRUCTS - Abiozoa Bioconstructs are a catch-all category of monsters engineered by the inhabitants of Mortasheen as pets, soldiers, housekeepers or all of the above."Abiozoa" are the most ancient Bioconstructs, and may include mechanical, mineral or inorganic chemical elements. Like machines, Abiozoa usually must be created individually, though some varieties are capable of self-replication if enough raw materials are available. Artilleraid - a birdlike organic gunner. Belladonna - a living iron maiden. Bombadire - a birdlike living cannon. Crepusculent - a bony, moon-shaped creature that produces tasty psychotropic worms. Doldrum - a tusked, tar-skinned cyclops. Doomboros - a large and demonic-looking monster that happens to suffer extreme paranoia and bashfulness. Eledirge - a saclike "piper" who's songs cause insanity. Exovoros - a multi-armed, long-jawed, radioactive horror. Gasjack - a gas-masked, bony equine with acidic breath. Ghoulantern - a candle-like monster that generates extreme cold. Gloomstone - a tombstone-like monster in control of a grisly flock of birds. Golgotha - a conical executioner with a terrifying gaze attack. Graunch - a big-jawed cyclopean mummy. Grounch - a big-jawed biclopean mummy. Hangman - a monster of burlap and rope. Jekyllantern - an eerie, ghostly creature with a gourd-like shell. Malignus - a creature with hooked chains for appendages and a very familiar mask. Malphas - a blind but lethal two-legged dog beast. Mumblegogger - a beak-nosed plague spewer. Oubliette - a living guillotine. Phalange - a moldy, chattering creation of bone. Scalamax - a sword-faced pirate fish. Septacle - a mobile, tentacled toilet. Shearsome - a gangly humanoid mutant who's arms form a massive set of scissors. Smogulus - a squidlike, pollution-spewing monster made of septic pipe. Smoldron - a hollow monster that generates intense heat. Succoom - a monster employed in carpet-cleaning. Thermalunk - a larger relative of the Smoldron, specializing in defense. Ticklestitch - an eerie surgery-creature. Wervelkolom - a serpentine skeleton with massive mandibles and dozens of venomous barbs. SAWFACE SERIES Chainsaw Kid - a chainsaw-faced, platypus-like being. Buzzsaur - a giant variation of the chainsaw kid. Drillbaby - a small, winged variation of the chainsaw kid. ROCK BEAST SERIES Ghoulem - a hulking rock-skinned humanoid. Goam - a primitive mud-bodied monster. Golithic - a huge, ravenous monster resembling a stone idol. PSI WITCH SERIES Abigor - a small, peaceful psionicist. Bagayaba - a monster somewhat resembling a long-legged birdhouse. Brewsome - a cauldron-backed frog beast. Jennyvex - an umbrella-like psionic witch. DOLL SERIES Cackle - a mischievious pumpkin-headed doll. Despire - a bear-like bodyguard that can manipulate emotion. Foulmouth - a ridiculous dirty sock-monster. Mayhem - an esthetic combination of voodoo doll, jester and owl. Neurosia - a "jack in the box" that invades the mind. Oodoov - a peaceful little monster that absorbs pain. Oogaboo - a ghost-like cloth monster. Ragamuffet - a doll-like monster stuffed with parasites. BIOCONSTRUCTS - Genezoa "Genezoa" differ from Abiozoa with 100% organic forms. Capable of natural reproduction, they can be considered full-fledged, bio-engineered living species. Bonezark - a bony, insectile fish monster. Brainpan - a silly-looking creature that lives in its own skull. Coccyx - a misshapen skull-like monster. Cynapse - a sort of giant living brain cell. Drainwave - a balloon-like, energy sucking brain creature. Esophagullet - a hideous, crab-clawed berserker. Eyejacker - a slimy mutant that feeds on eye-jelly. Eyepicker - a long-clawed gremlin, fond of body organs. Eyedra - a scuttling skull with a limitless number of branching eye-stalks. Two guesses how it fires beams. Goza - a timid, faceless creature that can cause blindness. Grave Snitch - an amoebic, rat-toothed grave robber. Grinmangle - a tentacled, saurian skull that behaves like a bear-trap. Gromory - a basic subhumanoid monster. Gruemaw - a big heap of flab with teeth like a shark. Ickwriggle - a disgusting double-headed worm. Iklik - a cyclopean, clawed creature with a massive tongue. Infectcha - a conglomerate of humanoid bacterial colonies. Jackanergal - a flying, equine-faced serpent with highly disorienting attacks. Jitter - a monster filled with narcotic chemicals. Junjo - a walking fish-head swarming with disease. Oculapus - a one-eyed mollusk with incredible vision. Oddgobble - a hungry egg-like monster. Oolg - a multi-armed head that petrifies its prey. Orifice - a fat, floating monster with an immense maw. Plazm - a gelatinous little blob with a biting stomach. Prednaught - a multi-skulled, multi-eyed behemoth. Shreeg - a legless beast that howls from multiple orifices. Skawk - a ridiculous-looking creature with a lethal tongue. Snotweasel - a monster akin to both a mole and a hagfish. Stinkeye - a filthy humanoid who weeps foul-smelling ooze. Tumorman - a being encrusted with infectious, cancerous warts. Ug - an ugly, hairy beast that "sneezes" flesh-rotting fungus. Viscerix - a massive bony land-eel with a bladed tail. Waxwork - a dripping blobby creature that melts and absorbs skin. Worminous - a slithering worm-like hunter. HERPETOIDS Abcoulix - a brain-like electrical toad. Draculisk - a bloodsucking, hypnotic chameleon. Fangrenous - a sluggish reptile with a festering bite. Infestoad - an amphibian serving as a wasp's nest. Mimicroak - a mutant toad with mime-like psychic powers. Ovulooge - an amphibian monster controlling a massive colony of spawn. Necroak - a froglike monster with edible entrails. Polyfrog - a two-faced, poison-eating amphibian. Thornswaggle - a spiny lizard-like monster with dangerous blood. AVIANS Bemzuul - a winged being with mastery over sight. Cockatross - a giant, mutant chicken-like beast. Phlegmbrane - a sticky mucus-dripping bird. Pteracide - a small, leathery flier that rains acid on its prey. Scravenous - a skull-headed, stinging avian. Skoffix - a flightless, blade-winged bird. Veezil - a monster with fast-growing bramble-like limbs. MAMMALOIDS Armadour - an armadillo-like monster capable of lethally hurling itself. Baboil - a disgusting ape-beast with a more disgusting attack method. Boggle - a tiny monkey with massive, blinding eyes. Blightshade - a noxious floating monster that spews infectious fungus from its hollow antlers. Catoplagas - a camel-like monster infested with symbiotic fleas. Dismole - a giant mole-like mutant. Fangatan - a noble beast with a huge, false face. Fearlobe - an idiotic mutant playing host to parasitic earwigs. Gorgoblepas - a tremendous, bovine mutant engineered for the food industry. Fevile - a ghoulish long-limbed cat. Fungusloth - an inverted, fungus-infested mammaloid. Gnawful - a common rat-like mutant. Heebies - an anteater-like monster that breeds stinging ants. Malodorodon - a large and ugly four-legged beast with horrendous breath. Marrow - a bulldog-like canine monster. Mormel - a giant gnashing mole-rat mutant. Scabominate - a crusty, oozing creature that can petrify its foes with its own flesh. Sleez - a long-nosed, hyperactive "weasel dog". Snufagunk - a misshapen, porcine cyclops. Volross - a vicious, saw-jawed canine. VAMPIRE SPAWN - Genezoa engineered by Vampires as underlings. Bullysnag - a brutal, flightless mutant bat. Chiraptor - a hunting-bat engineered by human vampires. Clawsimon - a mutant bat with a built-in "stoplight". Gill Devil - humanoid fish. Makkoron - a humanoid shark. Siluro - a sticky, electrical catfish mutant. Tetroxic - a toxic blowfish-based mutant. Zombster - a ghoulish hermit-crab like monster. WORMBRAINS These colonial monstrosities were created by an ancient strain of mind-controlling brain-fluke, breeding ideal hosts from human stock. All Wormbrains are capable of infecting any other creature with mind altering parasites. Cestoid - a host-parasite duo adapted into a serpentine hunter. Eyezome - a snail-like wormbrain. Manticoil - a monstrous, predatory host-beast. Paraseethe - the basic Wormbrain. Paraslob - a massive, slug-like Paraseethe. Proglapse - a degenerate, floating wormbrain. BIOMECHA SERIES Z Analyzer - an intelligence node and information gatherer. Hacker - an eerie, mind-warping mechanoid. Harvester - a spindly creature designed to collect raw materials. Mangler - a beastly, violent mechanoid. Protector - an all-purpose combat unit. Reconstructor - an asymmetrical medical and repair unit. Toiler - a simple worker mechanoid. ZOMBIE SPAWN The Zombism mutation affects only Homo sapiens, but a variety of strange monsters have branched off from them. Some are produced when zombies attempt to mate; others grow parasitically in the undead. Afterspawn - a strange little mutant with a placenta on its head. Beeblezug - an undead maggot colony. Debilitwitch - a carrier of mind-controlling worms (see the "wormbrain" class below). Ectozyme - an amoebic, chaotic zombie offspring. Encephalobe - a rogue brain that has evolved into a mental predator. Escarghoul - a freak merging of zombie and gastropod. Festerling - a zombie's inhuman offspring. Festerling B - a bloated, ravenous festerling variant. Festerling C - an acid-spitting festerling variant. Festerling D - a fanged, aggressive festerling variant. Festerling E - a crawling, pathetic festerling variant. Foetusaur - a powerful, highly evolved mutant embryo. Gastriking - a stomach that has evolved into a gluttonous monster. Grimgug - a titanic, sloth-like mutant embryo. Lesion - an oozing, floating pus creature. Mortigore - a one-eyed heap of miscellaneous meat and bone. Oovule - a floating psychic life-form. Pestequirm - an overgrown head filled with worms. Progenoid - a ferocious, beastly mutant embryo. Putrephile - a floating mutant protected by flies. Squirminator - a hulking mutation of the Debilitwitch. Wormroot - a tree grown on an extra-special fertilizer. Zyghast - a powerful, highly evolved mutant embryo. JOKERS The origins of the Jokers are entirely unknown, but they exist to perpetuate mayhem and chaos; their telepathic fields spread a viral insanity to other sentient beings. Buffume - a toxic balloon monster. Caterpucker - a weak, lowly wormlike joker. Dementipede - a multi-bodied monster. Eyechosis - a Joker dwarfed by its rolling eye. Grindrome - a clown made primarily of teeth and gums. Insanititter - a powerful serpent-like Joker. Locomeleon - a powerful beastly Joker. Septiclown - a parasitic "clown". Slipstick - a mollusk-like, slime generating Joker. Madcap - a multilimbed clown-like monster with a sinister power. Nozo - a ghastly limbless clown with a sharp, venomous snout. Opticaper - a bizarre "puppeteer." Whimsikill - a squirting flower-like monster." UNKNOWN Interdimensionals, extraterrestrials and unexplained miscellany. Arkhex - an invisible, intangible parasite. Banderwock - a lurking boogieman-like being. Corpusite - a body-snatching invader. Genetisaur - a fierce gene-stealing alien mother. Lobotomask - a floating entity with that preys on intellect. Psychodrome - an abstract force that lurks in television broadcasts. Underfiend - a tentacled creature that infiltrates the gene pool. Shumoth - a shambling, polypous horror from beyond. Skuzbug - a brain-sucking, bug-like monster. Tentabog - an advanced, tentacled brain-sucker. Vaccuthax - a mysterious predator of vampires. INVADER SERIES Radiovade - a weird floating entity with unusual molecular properties. Vault - an alien being that preys on energy. Visidron - a metallic statue-like being with peculiar gravitational qualities. Wirvinia - an energy draining monster with light-warping wings. Xenogog - an eerie needle-armed invader. METEOR SERIES Avazoth - a collection of spore-like mineral structures that feed on intelligence. Grenzo - a flesh-hungry rock from above. Ziafel - a strange energy-drainer with telescoping arms. DEVILBIRDS These horrific beings were engineered by an ancient civilization to punish the behaviors they deemed most destructive. It is believed that the birds contributed to their creator's extinction, and did not function entirely as intended. Each of the seven basic species can produce the eggs of any species but its own. Envy - a feeble little creature that can exchange bodies with its victims. Gluttony - a bird that remotely parasitizes others. Greed - a heavily burdened creature that generates mysterious pearls. Lust - a tiny flying predator that preys on a common weakness. Pride - a psychic manipulator unaware of its loathsome form. Sloth - an ultimate embodiment of slothfulness. Wrath - a creature that perpetuates violence. ADVANCED DEVIL BIRDS Barbaletch - the devil bird of delusion. Bonnagander - the devil bird of cruelty. Dodoofus - the devil bird of ignorance. Effigy - the devil bird of hate. Gloomsday - the devil bird of despair. Jabbergrackle - the devil bird of paranoia. Psycheshrike - the devil bird of cowardice. Phasmoria - an accidental creation with oddly pleasant attacks. ULTIMATE DEVIL BIRDS Diablymous - the skeletal devil bird of death and terror. ARTHROPOIDS Human beings spliced with insects, arachnids or other arthropoda combine the size and intellect of the former with the many remarkable adaptations of the latter, though these hybrids may suffer from assorted instabilities. Apteros - dragonfly. Blighterfly - butterfly. Blobotle - housefly. Bloodbloat - tick. Chimerisect - ??? Cimex - bedbug Chuggypeg - woodlouse. Excremite - bombardier beetle. Exekiss - assassin bug. Exothresher - solifugid or "camel spider". Formicrawl - ant. Hagworm - moth/bagworm. Heartsucker - flea. Hellwig - earwig. Heraclamp - beetle. Horneterror - bee. Incherloper - inchworm. Jeremiad - cricket. Jujubug - caterpillar. Karacha - cockroach. Krabhorrent - crab. Luminoct - firefly. Malaclutch - lobster. Mandibite - beetle. Matoon - stinkbug. Millipatter - millipede. Morgmaggot - grubworm. Mothbrat - silverfish Pestilouse - louse. Polka-dotted Pansyface - ladybird beetle. Q-lex - mosquito. Rotsucker - fly maggot. Sandsneak - antlion. Scabite - Horsefly. Scarabellum - dung beetle. Scimitor - mantis. Scolomorph - centipede. Semikekkan - cicada. Sepoldier (Thresher) - termite. Sepoldier (Nasute) - termite. Springheel - jumping spider. Tachinitoid - parasitic fly. Tyranta - tarantula. Venomax - scorpion. Vertigo - spider. Vespicable - wasp. Weevious - weevil. Zeze - gnat. BOTANICALS Combining both animal and vegetable tissues, these strange monsters can be cultivated parasitically from normal, natural plant life. Attactus - a cactus-like monster with both real and psychic thorns. Chlorofoul - a sedentary pod that generates its own toxic, parasitic drones. Daemonut - a peculiar-looking weed that drips a potent drug. Devilweed - a nasty toxic plant with powerful jaws. Grimbrosia - a walking bulb with dangerously intoxicating nectar. Hollowile - a moisture draining, pumpkin headed monster. Horribloom - a cyclopean flower with strange psionic powers. Lullabile - a clawed, acidic monster with a deceptively pleasant voice. Mezmeroot - a fat, walking tuber with siezure-inducing eyes. Smultch - a creature with little more than winding limbs and big, slimy lips. Stinkstar - a disgusting mutant flower with a curious effect on the living dead. Whumpling - an absurd, explosive fruit-like monster. Whumplet - a small, fiery whumpling variant. Whumplord - an elephantine whumpling with shrapnel-like seeds. Widoweed - a predatory mutant that entices men and digests them alive. Willoweird - a tree-like mutant with a ghastly petrification ability. Manglewood - a burrowing, draconic predatory root system. FUNGOID - fungus-based monsters engineered similarly to plant-based monsters. Corrodestool - a metal-destroying humanoid fungus. Funguslyme - a zombie-destroying humanoid fungus. Mildoom - a hungry, bug-eyed blob of fungoid tendrils. Mushtomb - a mind-altering humanoid fungus. Scumbat - a parasitic, flying fungus. VAMPIRES These ancient telekinetic monsters evolved from a variety of natural species under the influence of a mysterious virus. Substisting entirely on the blood of other organisms, vampires are superparasites that do not age or die. VAMPIRES OF THE SEA Abysmal - a toothy, floating fish with an unusual lure to attract prey. Barnagoose - barnacle vampire. Bloodguzzle - a many-mouthed eel. Cilikiss - comb-jelly vampire. Clampire - bivalve vampire. Crawvire - lobster/shrimp vampire. Darksnaggle - a mesmerizing little fish with a huge, stalked mouth. Equinoct - seahorse vampire. Floundire - flatfish vampire. Gajoob - walrus vampire. Hemodusa - jellyfish vampire. Hydrac - a ferocious sea-serpent. Ingestomb - a fish vampire capable of swallowing far larger prey. Leech Angel - sea snail vampire. Melodreary - a tripodial sea-siren. Mudsucker - mudskipper vampire. Narwight - porpoise vampire. Necrozoa - crab vampire. Octopire - cephalopod vampire. Pentasite - starfish vampire. Shockjaw - a fish vampire with elaborate, electrical jaws. Shrezar - shark vampire. Slitherbleed - eel vampire. Tempterror - a small fish vampire with an edible luring mechanism. Undercreep - worm vampire. Vampiathan - whale vampire. Vamprey - leech vampire. VAMPIRES OF THE LAND Estrel - bird vampire. Fangkite - snake vampire. Heartlicker - cat vampire. Nosferachu - rat vampire. Scumwort - toad vampire. Sinister - bat vampire. How unusual! Viviphage - the ultimate vampire. GARBAGE Garbage-class monsters are those creatures which evolve spontaneously from the bizarre biochemical run-off of Mortasheen city, created accidentally with every new genetic experiment. While normally helpless and defective, any garbage-class monster is subject to spontaneous and dangerous new mutations. Agblap - a blind, wandering thing. Balanoid - a creature which feeds through its posterior. Bleezol - a strange monster blinded by its own thick mantle. Blindling - a crawling, useless eye. Blister - a blubbery, gibbering abomination. Dross - a twisted, molten humanoid. Dynch - a wailing puddle-like creature. Ekeblange - a peculiar walking spinal cord. Eldoon - a flatworm-like parasite. Feculus - a dung-spewing blob. Flarmph - a set of flapping, filthy ears. Gnarblewomp - a dim-witted and clumsy little monster. Grobbidile - a creature perpetually eating itself. Haspaglar - a crawling, groping fish-faced monster. Host - a scurrying, faceless thing. Korpum - a creature encased in a ball of limbs. Oov - a melon-shaped head...thing. Ogleslop - a snail-like creature. Putterpatter - a fast-moving, spidery creature made of fingers. Schnooze - a snotty mucus monster. Scuzzle - a mite-like monster that scuttles on its mouthparts. Slarp - a sluggish, ground-sucking creature. Spewcumber - a vomiting slug with oversized eye stalks. Undulard - a chrysalis-like animal. Urgh - an upside-down suction cup baby. Varroa - a peculiar creature that must drag its own mouth. Vloggle - a somewhat obscene, backwards monster. Vulg - a giggling, rootlike mutant. Vuntch - a fishy being that tends to drown itself. Waugh - a headless, chickenlike thing that never stops screaming. Wezzle - a teddy-bear shaped monster. GARBAGE BEASTS Though created accidentally and highly unstable, these monsters exhibit impressive size and strength. Carnibuncle - a monstrosity with toxic blood. Crocoboil - a slithering, grease-secreting beast. Decompoglob - a beast with infectious heads. Garbelch - a rancid trash creature with a shell of metal scrap. Garbile - a floating, vomitous fish-like monster. Garboid - a rancid, fish-like trash creature. Infestion - a slimy, snail-like humanoid with a shell of insect nests. Snargle - a twisted, reptilian monstrosity with poison-spewing entrails. Vermoeba - a shape-shifting mass of saw-toothed bodies. BACK Contents copyright Jonathan Wojcik/Bogleech. 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