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As an action, you can release a puff of pollen in a foot radius around yourself or in a foot cone, forcing all creatures in range to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, they come under an effect dependent on your subrace for 1 minute. An affected creature can repeat their saving throw each time they take damage. Once you use your pollen, you can't use it again until after you finish a long rest.

Floral Rest. Alraune do not need to sleep. Instead, they can root themselves in favorable soil, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day and absorbing nutrients from the soil. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

However, if the soil is not favorable you require a full 8 hours of rest to gain the equivalent of a long rest. As an action, you enter this state, rooting yourself into a patch of soft ground. While in this state your speed is reduced to 0. You can end this state, uprooting yourself as a bonus action. Your creature type is considered to be both humanoid and plant, and you can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

However, when you take fire damage, you are frightened until the end of your next turn. Natural Knowledge. As a part of the forest it is only natural for you to be knowledgeable about the wilderness. You are proficient in the Nature skill. You understand and can speak Common and Sylvan.

You can choose between Sunflower, Rose, and Venus as your subrace. Sunflower Alraune are as distinguishable for their generally bright yellow petals and taller builds as well as their friendly and kind nature. Your Constitution score increases by 1. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Calming Pollen. Creatures affected by your Alraune Pollen act as if under the effect of the calm emotions spell. When you use your Alraune Pollen trait, you can choose which of the two effects to use. Solar Affinity. Of all varieties of alraune you are the most proficient at drawing energy from the sun. When you roll hit dice and you are in bright sunlight you gain a bonus to the number of hit points recovered equal to your proficiency bonus times the number of hit dice rolled.

In addition, as an action, you can recover a number of hit points equal to your level if you are in bright sunlight. You can recover hit points using this trait once and regain use after you finish a long rest. Rose alraune have generally darker vines, small protruding thorns, deep red petals and their delicate figures are a testament to their manipulative and controlling natures. Your Charisma score increases by 1. Aphrodisiac Pollen.

Rose alraune produce a light sticky pollen that on contact with creatures acts as a strong aphrodisiac causing those affected by your pollen to be charmed for the duration and regard you as a close friend as if affected by the charm person spell. Hopeless Romantic. As well as pollen, rose alraune can produce a thick and sweet nectar from their mouths. When it enters the body of a creature via ingestion they must make a Constitution saving throw against your pollen DC or fall unconscious for an hour.

Essentially, "Alraune" is inspired by the ultimate masterpiece of scifi horror, "Frankenstein," only in this case the monster is a woman of exceptional beauty. Her name, Alraune, harkens to German legend regarding the mandrake root which was believed to grow from the ejaculate of hanged criminals that spills into the earth. In the book, Alraune is the creation of semen from a hanged man and a prostitute. Yes, you heard me right.

Just makes you want to run out and buy this book right now, doesn't it? For me, one of the most disturbing series of scenes involved the treatment of the prostitute that would become the subject of experiments that would lead to Alraune's birth.

The book doesn't get around to the actual birth of the titular character until almost the halfway point, but once she grows up, you can't help but start making Frankenstein comparisons immediately. People run in fear from the creation of Frankenstein, but here people are drawn to Alraune like flies to honey and are easily bent to her will, even if it is to their own detriment.

But like the Frankenstein monster, her behavior is only as bad as those around her. As noted brilliantly by fellow Goodreads reviewer Randolph, she serves as a mirror for the sins of others. If you already thought "Alraune" was a simply a gender-swapped "Frankenstein," you may be surprised to learn how gender-fluid Alraune really is.

It is possible that Ewers was satirizing and trolling the "homosexual panic" of the Weimar Republic. She is often described as having the appearance of a slender boy, wears masculine clothing, seduces and dominates other women, and is even referred to with male pronouns. I hope I've given you an idea of just how wild of a ride "Alraune" can be, no matter what version or language. I can't help but wonder if Trent Reznor had this story in the back of his mind when writing his industrial classic "Reptile," and even if he didn't, that song would make a good audio companion piece to this deranged answer to all things wholesome.

My main issue with the book was the character of Frank Braun, who is the young male "protagonist" in this and an entire trilogy of stories which center around him. He is an absolute ass. He barges in to people's homes unannounced with a ton of his drunken friends and demands the servants prepare a feast. He treats women as sexual conquests and is overall snippy and sarcastic to everyone around him. He is rude to others while being thin-skinned--he cannot tolerate the slightest perception of criticism inflicted upon him.

He lies and manipulates constantly. He's lazy and basically throws away his legal training, preferring to act like a spoiled college student living off a trust fund.

He ends up rightfully in prison for two years and takes advantage of the freedoms he is allowed and whines about not having any privacy, poor baby. He's even the one who convinces his uncle to make the alraune monster, seemingly for no reason whatsoever.

I suppose for a novel about the consequences of debauchery, excess, and narcissism, he fit right in, but I would never be able to read about him in two more books if he's written the same way.

The author supposedly based Braun off of his own personality, if that tells you anything about Ewers himself. Ewers was evidently not a fan of the United States, and he has been associated with some legendary, if not partly fictional, exploits such as working with Pancho Villa in raiding the southern border. His pro-Semite stance and bisexuality eventually led to his downfall in the eyes of Hitler's regime.

For this review I read the Joe E. Bandel version, which contains an absolutely hilarious preface describing the difficulties of translating this work that alone is worth reading. Though I get the impression that I wouldn't much care for Bandel's typical brand of brand of anarchist work, I give full kudos to him as translator for capturing the emotional depth, sumptuous poetry, and dark humor of Heinz Ewers from the original German.

Overall, I'd say this is a delightful refresher of the U. Both Endore's version and the Bandel edition are available on Kindle. But no matter what you think of the creator or the translator, "Alraune" is a true classic of Radium-Age science fiction and Jazz-Age horror for good reason. That being said, this is certainly not for everyone. If you are offended by extreme content, human depravity, and sexual decadence, this may not be the book for you.

But if you are at all curious at this point, it's probably worth checking out, and it is sure to creep out and delight lovers of the weird. View 1 comment. Nov 22, Warren Fournier rated it really liked it. The first third of this novel is biting satire, crowded with inconceivably pretty ugly caricatures and steeped in the blackest humor — a five-star reading pleasure beyond all doubts.

Then comes Alraune, and the story gets a little repetitive. Alraune [German for mandrake b. Whatever your desires are, she's there to fulfill them, unless she doesn't want to. She's the walking aphrodisiac for anyone who meets her, everybody's darling, a The first third of this novel is biting satire, crowded with inconceivably pretty ugly caricatures and steeped in the blackest humor — a five-star reading pleasure beyond all doubts.

She's the walking aphrodisiac for anyone who meets her, everybody's darling, a seductress par excellence. And she knows it and takes advantage of it. When she says "come" you come, and when she says "go" you go. And you do it gladly either way. It's Alraune after all. When she says "do it", you do it, whatever "it" may mean for you or other people. That kind of girl. I cannot blame her. I'm happy to have had a glimpse on her.

It's Alraune after all! View all 17 comments. A unique work of fiction from an intelligent author. The mystery that surrounds the plant Mandragora officinarum mandrake plant is beautifully crafted into a thrilling fiction that leaves the main character Alraune haunt you for long. In Germany, the plant is known as the Alraune: the novel later adapted as a film Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers is based on a soul-less woman conceived from a hanged man's semen, the title referring to this myth of the mandrake's origins.

View all 4 comments. May 12, Jim Dooley rated it it was amazing. The story was fascinating, unsettling, and possessed the most wicked wit I had experienced in a very long time.

I understand that H. Lovecraft was a fan and I can see the influence. The author was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, plays and essays that often dealt with occult and erotic themes.

Although I had never heard of him, ALRAUNE is his one work that seems to have stayed lurking in the shadows, probably because of the different screen versions that have appeared and disappeared through the years. The wildly fantastic plot involves a biologist who has been experimenting with a root that has the appearance of a human form, and that is found growing beneath execution sites where the bodily fluids of dying murderers saturate the ground.

His demented scheme is to fertilize the plant with the blood of a prostitute to create a "living alraune" that grows into a human social predator.

Poor Alraune develops into a seductress whose influence over other hapless creatures is like a force of nature.

Along the way, there are laugh out loud commentaries on societal rituals that hide under the guise of propriety, but are actually used for enhancing personal gain. Written in , I am amazed at the storytelling power this holds today.

I've never read anything like it before or since. It maintains the delicate balance between what will happen next, social criticism, and the driest wit this side of Oscar Wilde or Groucho Marx. There have been few books that I've enjoyed as much as this one. Nov 04, Sonia rated it really liked it Shelves: have , e-book. I really love it when I arbitrarily come across a book that is little known, but fantastic and I think Alraune definitely qualifies.

This is once again a translation and I truly hope that the language in the original was faithfully translated because that would mean Ewers was a tremendously gifted writer. I'd also hazard a guess that Mr. Ewers was something of a character as well. The novel is blatantly sensual and morally querulous. This was really a fantastic read. I'm so glad I came across it I really love it when I arbitrarily come across a book that is little known, but fantastic and I think Alraune definitely qualifies.

I'm so glad I came across it! This was on the TBR pile for many years. What surprised me is that this novel is a much more "fun" read than I expected. It's true, this novel is full of slow spots, even some padding I would argue, but there are many others which are and I hate the phrase page-turners. And while I wouldn't call this novel "frightening," some scenes are The chapter a third in where Alraune is "conceived" is truly shocking and horrible.

If this isn't THE German decadent novel, it's certainly in its company. This novel was likely very scandalous in its day, and the introduction informs us that the first English translation watered it down considerably. It dips its toe into androgyny, homosexuality and much more. And the plot itself is quite debased and gross; bored aristocrats using a prostitute for a "scientific experiment" more out of a whim than for science, and using the justice system to aid them.

There's other villainous, shocking details I won't give away, but this book is full of despicable people and Ewers excels in describing scenes of overflowing opulence and disturbing and lecherous perversions. Unfortunately I cannot say this is a lost gem that needs to be snatched up and voraciously read or you're missing out a masterpiece of classic horror fiction.

This book has many long sections on entangled inheritances and money matters during which the tension doesn't just fall slack, it disappears entirely. Much of what I didn't like contains spoilers, so The character of Alraune is merely manipulative, albeit on a vaguely superhuman scale it's true, but she's not exactly breathing fire or turning people's eyes into writhing worms either.

She's more like the ultimate femme fatale. Also, I'm not entirely sure how great this translation is, although I don't doubt it is better than the original, supposedly censored one.

At the beginning of the 20th century a small group of unscrupulous people want to make the legend around the mystical plant Mandragora officinarum, better known as Alraune, come true. Therefore a sex murderer's sperm and a willing prostitute have to be procured.

Nine months later a girl, who is calling Alraune, is born. This audioplay based on the book "Alraune" written by Hanns Heinz Ewers, published in Since the publication various film adaptations have been produced. And also Titania Me At the beginning of the 20th century a small group of unscrupulous people want to make the legend around the mystical plant Mandragora officinarum, better known as Alraune, come true. And also Titania Media had ventured to tackle this work.

Contrary to the other audio plays by Titania Media I have not been too fond at this one. This is not a fault in the realization, rather it is the story I didn't really like. The idea of creating an artificial human like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Fritz Lang's Metropolis appealed to me very much. I do love scifi stories about topics of this kind. Unfortunately it's taken too far to the extreme. The first half you're full of anticipation. But then One or two of them very well made would have been enough.

Like always the narrator ensemble convinced with his professionalism. One of the highlights for me was the small role of my favourite voice actor Pascal Breuer as Dr. Karl Petersen. It was really interesting to hear him in the role of the submissive stuttering servant. Normally he's narrating either the badass villain or the arrogant aristocrat. But he has done his job very well! Music and sound effects was directed as economically and efficiently as you could. It is said that they can also gain sustenance through absorbing sunlight through their flower via photosynthesis.

Alluring Scent : Alraunes emit a strong scent that liminal beings of both genders find pleasant, sweet and arousing. What they smell is the Alraune's pheromones which is emitted through their body and their nectar and is specifically designed to attract and entice potential pollination partners to them. Enough pheromones can enthrall an individual into loyally obeying the Alraune's whim. Alraune Nectar : Alraunes produce a nectar that has strong aphrodisiac and stamina boosting properties.

Similar to Bee Honey, Alraune Nectar has a thick but sweet taste and an alluringly sweet smell that can become addictive when consumed in large quantities. With a constant supply of nectar, a pollination partner can continually fornicate with an Alraune for several days with no signs of tiring or loss of erection. Exotic Body Secretion : An Alraune's nectar can be secreted from the mouth, the breasts, the vagina or the sweat pores of their humanoid half. The vines, fruit, petals and central "pit" of the Alraune's flower is also sometimes laced with or capable of emitting nectar.

Valuable Commodity : Alraune Nectar is a much sought after aphrodisiac and can be used in small quantities as a food sweetener. The substance is also popular with insectoid liminal species like Honey Bees and Papillions , who are known to forcibly rape Alraunes for the purpose of milking them of the nectar they emit during intercourse.

Breast Nectar Retainment : Alraunes can store their nectar in their breasts and in doing so they can alter their breast proportions to attract pollination partners. The larger their breasts, the more Alraune Nectar is stored inside.

Tentacle Vines : The vines of an Alraune's flower are prehensile and they can move them as additional appendages to ensnare prey and pollination partners once they are within reach. They can then use their vines to draw their prey inside their flower and hold them there as they pollinate.