The Growth

The Growth represents the fear of body horror, being eaten, and body image- the fear of being meat instead of a person. It manifests as a force that twists its victims' bodies into horrible things with rotting flesh, too many limbs, and parts in the wrong places.

The Growth does not seem particularly autonomous, but its servants, the Cultivators, are fully willing to plant the seeds of self-hatred and obsession with one's own physical appearance that the Growth needs to blossom within its victims.