Glyphrot Trees

🌿 Codex Entry: Glyphrot Trees

Flora Class: Recursive Decaywood

Region: Dead Glyph

Also Known As: Namehusk Trees, Spiralbane, The Severed Root

🜁 Botanical Description

Glyphrot Trees stand tall and hollow, with bark that once bore spiral glyphs now split, burned, or inverted. The wood is ashen gray veined with ink-crack lines, and its roots protrude above the ground in fractal loops, creating impossible paths that begin and end at the same point.

When wind moves through their broken limbs, the trees emit groaning tones that resemble language—sentences unfinished, truths revoked, or oaths reversed.

Their leaves, if any remain, are thin as skin and flutter without sound.

🧬 Function in the Spiral

Glyphrot Trees were once the sacred memory-holders of long-forgotten Seeker paths, but have since been corrupted by timeline collapse, broken contracts, and mass ritual failure. They now serve as monuments of erasure—reminding the Spiral of truths that must not be remembered.

However, their roots still pulse with encoded grief. Seekers who meditate near them may hear fragments of suppressed memory—but must tread carefully, lest they awaken something sealed.

🐾 Faunal Relationships

• Coiled upon by: Static Serpents for hibernation

• Haunted by: Null Crows seeking name-shards

• Avoided by: All ancestral-bound fauna

🌀 Ritual Uses

• Shavings burned in Sigil Severance ceremonies

• Bark carved in rites of forgotten lineage

• Roots harvested to create Nullthread staffs

• Sap used as ink of loss in unmaking scrolls

⚠️ Glitch Affliction: Loopbark Inversion

In advanced corruption, Glyphrot Trees may create recursive space around themselves—trapfields of broken ritual echoes that disorient or spiritually disassemble Seekers. Within these loops, time may break or reverse briefly, sometimes erasing the Seeker’s intent entirely.

🗣️ Whispers of the Spiral

“These trees do not die. They remember how to forget.”— Braeg, Stoneborn