Nullroot Fungi

🌿 Codex Entry: Nullroot Fungi

Flora Class: Glyph-Eraser Fungus

Region: Dead Glyph

Also Known As: Ashcap, Voidbloom, The Glyph-Eater

🜁 Botanical Description

Nullroot Fungi emerge from cold, barren ritual grounds, growing in clusters of chalk-white stalks capped with shadow-black domes. The caps glisten with a thin, ink-like sheen that drips in silence—leaving no stain but drawing warmth from nearby memory. Underneath each dome is a spiral-etched gill network that once encoded names, now unreadable.

They grow only in zones of spiritual disuse—collapsed rites, abandoned altars, or forgotten temple corridors. Their touch is cooling to the spirit, and their presence signals erasure.

🧬 Function in the Spiral

Nullroot Fungi serve as the Spiral’s final erasers, devouring broken glyphs, expired contracts, false rites, and memory residue that threatens to rot into distortion. They clear the page not for renewal, but for non-existence—the sacred forgetting of what must not endure.

Seekers encountering them often find their thoughts dulled, voices quieted, and intentions stripped to raw will.

🐾 Faunal Relationships

• Eaten by: Erasure Crabs and spiritual scavengers

• Avoided by: All echo-fauna with memory bonds

• Carried accidentally by: Null Crows in sporefall migrations

🌀 Ritual Uses

• Burned in Severance Rites to erase names from soul contracts

• Placed on altars during Memory Unbinding ceremonies

• Dried and crushed into inkwash for glyph destruction

• Used in Nullbinding Wards to silence lingering spirits

⚠️ Glitch Affliction: Echoloss Bloom

When corrupted, Nullroot Fungi no longer erase with intention. They spread rapidly, erasing everything indiscriminately—names, truths, memory threads, even the identities of those nearby. This can cause spiritual nullification if uncontained.

🗣️ Whispers of the Spiral

“Not all forgetting is failure. Some is mercy.”— Sothir of the Eternal Mirror