Born for War. Warlock's trumpetblooms were created by a mage and his cabal through a series of bizarre experiments that involved cross-breeding native jungle orchids and giant carnivorous plants with alien seed pods. The mage supervised the experiments personally, frequently consulting a living brain he kept in a glass cylinder. When the first trumpetblooms were propagated from seedlings, the mages were astounded at how quickly the plants grew and subsequently reproduced. An unstoppable army was within their grasp-or so they believed. The mages' optimism proved misguided when the trumpetblooms broke free of the glasshouses and attacked their masters.