Shardgrass

🌿 Codex Entry: Shardgrass

Flora Class: Reflective Bladebloom

Region: Fadefield

Also Known As: Fractgrass, Echo-Reed, The Lightsplinter Weave

🜁 Botanical Description

Shardgrass appears as clusters of crystalline grass blades, thin and jagged like splinters of colored glass. The blades shimmer in sharp hues—violet, mirror-white, pale cyan—and refract the Spiral’s ambient light into scattered glyph patterns that dance across the soil.

They are razor-fine, yet not dangerous to the touch unless interacted with during glitch surges. When disturbed, the blades resonate with high-pitched tones that mimic Seeker voices, often speaking words that have not yet been said.

🧬 Function in the Spiral

Shardgrass is a light-memory conductor. It refracts not just light, but intent and unspoken truth, echoing it visually through glyph-fragments on nearby surfaces. This phenomenon is most often observed during dream-trances, glitch storms, or near the death of a truthkeeper.

In ritual zones, Shardgrass marks the place where a truth broke through silence—and where new memory is waiting to root.

🐾 Faunal Relationships

• Rested beneath by: Ashwings during silence-roosting

• Walked through by: Hollow Snails, triggering silent tonal pulses

• Disrupted by: Veiljackals, who sometimes scatter it to disrupt memory flow

🌀 Ritual Uses

• Used in silence-glyph fasting circles to bring focus before rites

• Laid in Divination Lattices to refract outcome fragments

• Ground into dust for use in lightweaving ink

• Sometimes harvested to bind broken truth sigils

⚠️ Glitch Affliction: Mirrorloop Shardscape

Corrupted Shardgrass becomes fully reflective, trapping light into recursive sigil patterns that blind or disorient nearby beings. In worst cases, it opens micro-loops of fractured memory where a Seeker may become stuck inside a repeated moment.

🗣️ Whispers of the Spiral

“Even silence throws light, if the grass is sharp enough to catch it.”— Orryn the Brightwarden