# Character Profile: Aspen Moor **Series:** Spooky Month (Episode 7: *The Wacky Wicked Woods*) ### Overview Aspen Hsum Moor (an anagram for "Mushroom Aspen") is a powerful, ancient arboreal entity masquerading as a theatrical, friendly old witch deep within the forest. She acts as a deceptive predator, utilizing environmental hazards and psychological trickery to harvest human souls. ### Core Traits & Mechanics * **Dual Nature:** Balances a goofy, flamboyant, game-show-hosting witch persona with a terrifying, massive, predatory wooden true form. * **Hallucinogenic Manipulation:** Uses pink mushroom spores to warp reality and trap targets inside a whimsical, rigged illusionary wonderland. * **Soul Harvesting:** Equipped with a medallion tied to the *Penitent Ones*, which grants her eternal life and power as long as she feeds it human souls. * **Quirks:** Constantly speaks in theatrical rhymes (a stylistic nod to classic witch characters like Gruntilda). ### Weakness * **The Amulet:** Her life force and illusory magic are entirely tethered to her pendant; shattering the medallion permanently petrifies her into regular, inanimate wood.
