If you happen upon a particularly nasty patch of stinging nettles or thorny vines, odds are good that either a gorseling caused it, or is currently living inside of it. These botanical-based little monsters are devoted to sucking and choking the life from all other plants and replacing it with brier and gorse. This is partly because it's their favoured habitat, and partly because they seem to relish the misery their prickly preferences cause.

Like a weed, they spread their painful plants anywhere they go and as far as possible. A farmer who finds a vine covered in thorns on his land is in for a hard fight to save his crops, both from the brier and from the greedy gorselings that gulp down any veggies and fruit they can get their hands on. It's no secret why the saying 'stubborn as a gorseling patch' is a popular phrase amongst farmers.

They tend to swarm in packs, and will do their best to scratch you with their claws or stick you with the thorns that grow all over their bodies. Close combat with them can be tricky because of this. But as with all things, they have exploitable weaknesses. Gorselings, as you might have been already able to guess, don't care much for fire. Their oily skin keeps them from going up in flames like a dry leaf pile, but it will still cause them a great deal of distress. Just make sure that you've got the next step of your attack in mind, because once you set a gorseling aflame, they're going to be VERY angry.