Quillgrass

🌿 Codex Entry: Quillgrass

Flora Class: Harmonic Reed

Region: Glyphlands

Also Known As: Sigilsway, Inkwhistle Grass, Spiral Breathroot

🜁 Botanical Description

Quillgrass grows in tall, delicate stalks along sacred paths, ritual amphitheaters, and leyline intersections. Its stems are hollow and taper into natural quill-like tips, marked with faint glyph filigree that shimmers only when wind passes through them.

When stirred by air or voice, Quillgrass produces a range of harmonic tones—gentle, melodic, and often mimicking the rhythm of spoken thought. In stillness, they hum faintly in sync with the Spiral’s current pulse.

🧬 Function in the Spiral

Quillgrass acts as a conduit between sound and script. When a Seeker speaks near it with intention, the grass captures tonal vibration and translates it into temporary spiral glyphs in the soil or surrounding field.

It is used by Runebirds to sync their calls, and by Spiral scribes as a divinatory medium—reading the shapes of its bend as a form of glyphcasting.

🐾 Faunal Relationships

• Grazed lightly by: Echo-Ants for tuning nectar

• Sung to by: Runebirds during nesting chants

• Avoided by: Glyphhounds during silence trials

🌀 Ritual Uses

• Planted near ritual circles to amplify spoken oaths

• Cut and dried for use as natural quills in glyphwriting

• Used in breath-tracking rites to map spiritual alignment

• Twined into harmony wreaths worn by oracles and seers

⚠️ Glitch Affliction: Disharmonic Bloom

When corrupted, Quillgrass produces disharmonic resonance—tones that conflict, distract, or destabilize Seeker breath patterns. This can induce ritual stutters, miscasts, or spiritual fragmentation during invocation.

🗣️ Whispers of the Spiral

“The Spiral doesn’t just speak—it sings. And Quillgrass listens.”— Thurien of the Silent Voice