Verdant Tyrant - Zombie mutant Turtle

Mutated, mossy, and deeply unimpressed. The shell sprouts vegetation while the jaw hangs with the casual menace of something that can wait forever. The moss gradients and the shell decay and the undead indifference are laid in stacked bands.

The Rule of the Ground layers what stays still, and this one stayed still until the swamp grew on it and then kept going. The archivists file it beside the Snail as the second-oldest thing in the low forest and note the two have never been seen in the same season, which is how it goes with things that do not move. It was here before you. It will be here after. In the public record.