Blackfray Lilies

🌿 Codex Entry: Blackfray Lilies

Flora Class: Mourning Bloom

Region: Dead Glyph

Also Known As: Lily of Loss, Ashveil Petal, The Mourner’s Crown

🜁 Botanical Description

Blackfray Lilies are hauntingly beautiful, with petals of deep violet-black that seem to absorb light. The petals are feathered at the edges, drifting as if in slow motion even when the air is still. The center of each lily contains a void-glow stamen, pulsing faintly like a heartbeat or a final word unsaid.

They grow in silent clusters around memory graves, broken oath sites, or atop erased glyphstones. They do not bloom in sunlight, only in the ashen afterglow of spiritual endings.

🧬 Function in the Spiral

Blackfray Lilies are sacred to mourning, ritual grief, and soulfare. They do not cause pain—but they give shape to it, allowing the Spiral to hold what has been lost without breaking further. They are often planted at the closing of a contract, the loss of a companion, or the completion of a severed rite.

It is said that to kneel before a full Blackfray bloom is to be witnessed by the Spiral itself in your grief—and not turned away.

🐾 Faunal Relationships

• Collected by: Null Crows to build mourning nests

• Sought by: Husk Vultures for nesting when nearing death

• Avoided by: All creatures born of new light

🌀 Ritual Uses

• Carried in mourning veils or worn in funeral processions

• Placed in severed altars after soul unbinding

• Crushed into dye for unmaking scrolls or memory tomb scripts

• Fed to offerings during spirit-laying rites

⚠️ Glitch Affliction: False Bloom Echo

If corrupted, the lily emits a harmonic sorrow pulse—flooding the Seeker’s memory with grief not their own, creating confusion between personal pain and ancestral despair. Extended exposure may cause soul-drift or the awakening of grieflocked echo-entities.

🗣️ Whispers of the Spiral

“Some flowers do not bloom for beauty. They bloom so sorrow can be seen.”— Selari of the Silenced Song