COMPENDIUM OF LIVING FORMS 2 OF 5
A Comprehensive Catalogue (Pt.2) of the Beings That Creep, Sing, Dwell, and Resonate Within Velun
Compiled under the Silent Accord of the Mountain-Wardens
𐬽 Scribe’s Preface
Let this codex serve as a record of the living multiplicities within the sacred lands of Velun — the cliffs, the forests, the echoing caves, and the veiled swamps. Each organism listed herein has been observed, catalogued, and respectfully named by the Aevori in accordance with their resonance, behavior, and contribution to the Spiral of Cycles.
These entries are compiled in accordance with the six primary Lhaiven Strains, a biological taxonomy unique to Velun and formalized by the naturalist-priestess Kavaen Sha’Luune during the early Moonwind Era. While the Aevori reject domination of life by language, they permit the recording of life forms for sacred stewardship.
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THE CODEX OF LIVING FORMS – VOLUME III
SECTION II: Tonedraen – Life Resonant With Tone, Echo, and Silence
❖ GENUS: Tonedraen
Tonedraen are organisms tuned to the liminal field of sound and silence. Neither wholly physical nor wholly vibrational, these beings perceive and express through pulse, echo, and harmonic modulation. Some interact with the Unseen Veil, while others transmute tone into nourishment, light, or growth.
1. Shaelvurin – “Whisper-Bell of Hollow Silence”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Shaelvurin’tel
• Description: Orb-shaped, translucent floater with hanging resonance tendrils. Emits no sound—only null pressure fields that cancel all noise within a radius.
• Habitat: Still groves near memory stone sites.
• Behavior: Drifts slowly and anchors near song-practice zones. Its presence marks sacred silence.
• Resource: Null-Fiber Strand – woven into meditation chambers to prevent spiritual echo-overlap.
• Cultural Note: Called “Silence-Blessed”; believed to be drawn to grief or deep memory.
2. Orn’valtheri – “Tone-Spined Shimmerbeast”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Orn’valtheri’rahn
• Description: Semi-quadruped with a dorsal crest of vibrating quills that shimmer in moonlight, modulating ambient tone into light pulses.
• Habitat: Mountain caverns and echo-wells.
• Behavior: Sings tonal bursts at dawn and dusk to attract mates and map territory.
• Resource: Harmonic Crest – used in tuning sacred spheres and ritual instruments.
• Ecology: Keeps vibration-symmetry among deep lifeforms.
3. Thiira’kaelun – “Ghost-Mouth of the Echo Pools”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Thiira’kaelun’shyl
• Description: Jellyfish-like entity with translucent maw and filament limbs that mirror the surrounding echo.
• Habitat: Still swamp pools and echo caves.
• Behavior: Reflects and re-emits sounds heard, often rearranged into ancestral chants.
• Resource: Echo-Membrane – stretched into acoustic scrolls.
• Cultural Note: Thought to record past spirit songs; often visited by Aevori dreamers.
4. Dravven’tuleth – “Wail-Root of the Shattered Crescents”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Dravven’tuleth’gon
• Description: Plant-animal hybrid with underground root-limbs and a tremor-emitting bulb that pulses seismic waves as cry-tones.
• Habitat: Cliffside fracture zones and ancient ruin fields.
• Behavior: Feeds on seismic tone patterns; blooms only when high-tone wailing is echoed from nearby caves.
• Resource: Cry-Bulb Core – used in fault stabilization and warden chant-amplifiers.
• Danger Note: Overstimulated specimens have caused rock collapses.
5. Vyrr’sahlein – “Dancer Between Soundthreads”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Vyrr’sahlein’vae
• Description: Spiderlike, gossamer-bodied being that walks between resonance strands, visible only during certain tonal pulses.
• Habitat: Inside Vehlune resonance spheres, wind-tuned hollows.
• Behavior: Dances complex thread-patterns that harmonize environmental resonance.
• Resource: Tone-Silk Filament – used in tone-sensitive veils and sacred ward fabrics.
• Notes: Often leaves behind web-sigils believed to be “tone-maps.”
6. Kyaelven’arh – “Pulse-Horn of the Forgotten Sky”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Kyaelven’arh’dol
• Description: Sky-dwelling, antelope-shaped being with forked resonance horns that pulse infrasonic beats.
• Habitat: High storm layers and sound-shrouded peaks.
• Behavior: Sends rhythmic low pulses through the air to warn of thunder shifts or other beings.
• Resource: Pulse-Horn Segment – used to awaken dormant memory stones.
• Ecology: Essential to climate tone-balance.
7. Naevrith’zael – “Harmonic Shard-Krill”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Naevrith’zael’cha
• Description: Minuscule, crystalline-bodied krill that flicker between visibility depending on tone-frequency.
• Habitat: Upper canopy mists, near rain-pulse zones.
• Behavior: Swarms into phrase-shaped clusters based on ambient sound—feeds off silence disruption.
• Resource: Shard-Crill Dust – infused in musical tattoos to carry live resonance.
• Cultural Significance: Used in rite of tonal balance by younger Aevori singers.
8. Veluun’tavahr – “Chime-Tailed Driftbeast”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Veluun’tavahr’syn
• Description: Float-tusked mammal with wind-chimes for a tail; every movement generates soft notes.
• Habitat: Wind corridors and mist-bridges.
• Behavior: Gentle herd animal; uses tail to establish peace resonance in tense areas.
• Resource: Tavahr Chimebone – sacred in mourning ceremonies.
• Myth: It is said that the first Aevori child fell asleep wrapped in its song.
9. Shaln’riivael – “Resonance-Scaled Tunnelwyrm”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Shaln’riivael’torr
• Description: Blind burrower with rows of vibrating scale-segments; senses by echolocation.
• Habitat: Deep tone tunnels beneath Veu-Nahra.
• Behavior: Digs and reshapes tunnels according to resonance shifts of the mountain.
• Resource: Scale-Flute Chitins – bound into subterranean tone markers.
• Ecology: Essential to shifting acoustic paths inside sacred caves.
10. Irr’vayelen – “The Unstruck Ring”
• Classification: Tonedraen | Irr’vayelen’lael
• Description: Ring-shaped organism of nearly invisible tone-flesh. Not seen—only perceived as a sudden harmony.
• Habitat: Appears only in extreme stillness—thresholds of death, birth, memory.
• Behavior: Does not move or feed in traditional terms. Appears as a pause in resonance.
• Resource: None reproducible. Ritualists claim to have received tone-glyphs when meditating in its presence.
• Myth: Believed to be a surviving echo from the birth-tone of Velun.
THE CODEX OF LIVING FORMS – VOLUME III
SECTION III: Aeol’kari – Great Spirit-Beasts and Sentient Guardians
❖ GENUS: Aeol’kari
Aeol’kari are the immense, slow-breathing memory-beasts of Velun. Often seen only once in a generation, these creatures serve as guardians of sacred spaces, reservoirs of ancient memory, and living vessels of the land’s resonance. Some are fully sentient. Others commune only in dreams, glyphs, or through the song-borne channels of the Aevori.
1. Vael’thurahn – “The Still-Heart Guardian”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Vael’thurahn’thal
• Description: Towering quadruped cloaked in lichen and mist-veil, with a stone-carved face and crystalline eyes.
• Habitat: Dwells at the First Echo Gate within Veu-Nahra.
• Behavior: Speaks only through dream-memory. It awakens once every century to realign the memory stones.
• Resource: Crystalline Tears – rare beads used to bind ancestral glyphs in soulbinding.
• Myth: Believed to carry the soul of the first resonance-born Aevori.
2. Saelveth’uun – “Memory-Walker Between Worlds”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Saelveth’uun’yel
• Description: Long-limbed, cloud-horned beast of silver hair and translucent blood. Leaves memory trails where it steps.
• Habitat: Travels unseen across both dream and forest.
• Behavior: Touches only those who are soul-fractured. It restores lost songlines.
• Resource: Hair-Strand of Echo – binds memory across death or separation.
• Cultural Role: Always followed by a Warden in silent rite. Appears during soul reclamations.
3. Thur’kelahr – “The Thorn-Shelled Depth Lord”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Thur’kelahr’ven
• Description: Enormous shelled amphibian with thorned spines and inner glow. Moves like a glacier.
• Habitat: Sleeps beneath the flooded root caverns.
• Behavior: Feeds on corruption. Absorbs Varashin echoes from the land itself.
• Resource: Shell-Chip of Purge – ground into purifying dust for forest ceremonies.
• Myth: When it roars, entire Varashin colonies wither.
4. Yeluun’thae – “Singer of Forgotten Sky-Voices”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Yeluun’thae’raan
• Description: Winged colossus with feathers of skyglass and voice of harmonic wind. Cannot walk—only glide.
• Habitat: Appears only above the Sanctum of Resonance during eclipse rites.
• Behavior: Sings long-forgotten tones that cause vegetation to bloom or decay based on rhythm.
• Resource: Feather-Splinter – embedded in tuning-stones to restore damaged harmonics.
• Legend: Known as “The Breath of Velun’s Memory.”
5. Orrh’naviil – “Guardian Rootmind of the Silent Tangle”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Orrh’naviil’kael
• Description: Plant-beast hybrid of immense tangle-root body with glowing flower-eyes. Entire forest sections bloom around it.
• Habitat: Wanders slowly through the Vastwood’s Deep Groves.
• Behavior: Breathes through its canopy, creating zones of utter silence.
• Resource: Root-Sap of Stillness – collected to mend fractured spirit threads.
• Cultural Note: Aevori say it listens better than it moves.
6. Zehrak’tul – “The Spiral-Kin Flamebearer”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Zehrak’tul’venn
• Description: Flame-wreathed serpent with glyph-carved scales, slowly circling sacred spiral stones.
• Habitat: Vein-spirals within Veu-Nahra’s lower sanctums.
• Behavior: Its passage rewrites glyph memory into stone. Dreams flicker in its wake.
• Resource: Shed Spiral Scale – contains an evolving glyph-form not repeatable by Aevori hands.
• Notes: Never interferes—only rebalances.
7. Vuhl’narri – “The Silence-Born Twin”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Vuhl’narri’tae
• Description: Mirrorlike quadruped of shifting glass-flesh and impossible limbs. Exists in pairs only—one seen, one not.
• Habitat: Exists simultaneously at two points in Velun.
• Behavior: When one twin is touched, the other flees. They can only be heard by those who have survived ritual death.
• Resource: Mirror Bone – allows creation of “Still-Glyphs” that vanish unless remembered.
• Cultural Role: Seen during final soul-weavings of dying elders.
8. Kaethrel’urh – “The Endless Sleep-Treader”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Kaethrel’urh’myn
• Description: Leviathan-bodied crawler that moves beneath the roots of Velun itself. Body composed of dark moss and pressure.
• Habitat: Unknown. Felt rather than seen.
• Behavior: Causes long sleeps when it passes below. Dreamers often wake changed.
• Resource: Moss-Tuft of Sleep – infused into slow-thought teas and memory-skin dye.
• Cultural Note: Believed to rearrange forgotten lives.
9. Thae’varhion – “Hollow-Horned Flame-Kin”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Thae’varhion’sel
• Description: Hollow-structured being that glows from within, horned like an ancient stag, its antlers form moving glyphs of fire.
• Habitat: Rare clearings where corruption once ruled.
• Behavior: Appears when land is healed. Horns record the healing as shifting glyphs.
• Resource: Antler Ash – mixed into soil to prevent Varashin regrowth.
• Myth: Said to be the fire-form of a Warden who dissolved herself into the land.
10. Vaernuun’telith – “The Last Listener of Veu-Nahra”
• Classification: Aeol’kari | Vaernuun’telith’zen
• Description: Enormous resonance-mammal with symphonic lungs and multi-spiral ear ridges. Listens across centuries.
• Habitat: Dwells at the Echo Root Throne within Veu-Nahra’s core.
• Behavior: Stores thousands of years of Velune sound. May sing once every 1000 years.
• Resource: Ear-Shell Spiral – placed beside newborns to grant “listening lineage.”
• Cultural Significance: Its song ended a thousand-year war beneath the stone.
THE CODEX OF LIVING FORMS – VOLUME IV
SECTION IV: Nyarth’kin – Broken Echoforms and Corrupted Kin
❖ GENUS: Nyarth’kin
Nyarth’kin are creatures disfigured by the presence, influence, or infection of the Varashin — the spiritual corruption that spreads through broken memory, severed resonance, and soul-discord. Some were once ordinary beings of Velun, now altered. Others formed spontaneously in the fractures of the Spiral. They embody silence turned violent, echo turned inward, or memory made grotesque. While many are hostile or unstable, others serve an essential ecological role in consuming, countering, or containing the Varashin.
1. Vol’rethuun – “Hollow-Spine Devourer”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Vol’rethuun’kal
• Description: Once a glider mammal, now twisted into a skeletal form with void-filled cavities instead of organs. Its bones whisper constantly.
• Habitat: Corrupted canopy zones.
• Behavior: Feeds on resonance trails left by sentient thought. Tracks dreamers.
• Danger: Highly aggressive if confronted.
• Resource: Void-Bone Marrow – dangerous in raw form, but distilled by Aevori Healers to absorb memory sickness.
• Caution: Must be harvested before dawn, or marrow hardens into curse-shells.
2. Shahr’nixei – “The Staggering Mirror Beast”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Shahr’nixei’raal
• Description: Reflective-skinned predator with six legs and no fixed face; displays distorted versions of those who see it.
• Habitat: Near broken memory stones or in ritual sites desecrated by misuse.
• Behavior: Staggers in broken rhythm. Consumes self-image and causes dissonant self-thoughts.
• Resource: Fracture Hide – used cautiously by tattoo-weavers to represent trauma-reclamation glyphs.
• Cultural Note: It is never named aloud by Aevori; only drawn in inverted spirals.
3. Xelnah’veriin – “The Molt of Mouths”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Xelnah’veriin’dokh
• Description: Snake-worm covered in dislocated mouths, each muttering half-spoken regrets. Leaves behind translucent emotional husks.
• Habitat: Swamps of failed soulbinding.
• Behavior: Burrows toward emotionally charged events or trauma echoes.
• Resource: Shed Husk – used in ritual burnings to banish unspoken pain.
• Warning: Whispering mouths sometimes mimic lost loved ones.
4. Thurak’noll – “Ash-Talon Reclaimer”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Thurak’noll’vash
• Description: Charred-black avian form with burning talons. Screeches only in the presence of dying memory.
• Habitat: Sky above ruined Vehlune spheres.
• Behavior: Hunts corrupted echoes. It burns what cannot be healed.
• Resource: Talon Ash – mixed with iron root to create anti-corruption inks.
• Balance Note: Although feared, it is an ally of the Wardens.
5. Ryll’ezrah – “Wound-Crawler of the Soul Shale”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Ryll’ezrah’kae
• Description: Millipede-like being with pale-blue segmented flesh. Its body glows only when near emotional rupture.
• Habitat: Lives within fault-line caverns of the spirit.
• Behavior: Crawls through soul fractures. Non-hostile unless touched during feeding.
• Resource: Segmentation Fluid – extracted and ritually used to track trauma migration.
• Belief: Considered both parasite and balm.
6. Yunn’vahris – “The Crowned Weepbeast”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Yunn’vahris’tan
• Description: Once a cliff-herd mammal, now four-eyed and antlered with ink-like trails pouring from its eyes. Its antlers spiral in impossible geometries.
• Habitat: Appears in sites of unresolved collective grief.
• Behavior: Stands utterly still. Its presence causes Aevori to weep involuntarily.
• Resource: Ink-Tear Resin – sacred to spirit-pain inscription, used to tell truths too deep to sing.
• Notes: Elders say it knows when a soul forgets its name.
7. Kaelun’xirrh – “Splinter-Born of Rot Glyph”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Kaelun’xirrh’zel
• Description: Fungoid parasite born from corrupted sacred script. Moves in broken glyph patterns and emits rotting light.
• Habitat: Infected script-halls or broken temples.
• Behavior: Eats meaning from words. Causes sacred texts to reverse or bleed.
• Resource: Spore-Shell – sealed and burned to prevent lore collapse.
• Warning: Never write its name in flowing glyph—only in fractured linework.
8. Vorash’teyr – “The Shatter Howl”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Vorash’teyr’hann
• Description: Doglike shadow-hound, its jaws opening vertically. Emits sound that breaks memory-glass and disorients resonance users.
• Habitat: Near failed spirit duels and echo-broken canyons.
• Behavior: Hunts in packs. Attracted to song-based rituals.
• Resource: Jaw-Spine – dangerous, used only in ward-breaker rituals.
• Caution: Always hunt with two Warden tonesingers.
9. Zirn’elekh – “Ghost-Caller of the Deep Skin”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Zirn’elekh’nir
• Description: Leechlike, eyeless, and nearly invisible. Glows faintly when feeding on memory residue in tattoos.
• Habitat: Tunnels below sanctums where tattoos were removed or altered.
• Behavior: Drawn to body-ink that no longer matches its soul-song.
• Resource: Ink-Void Secretion – binds unwanted glyphs for safe removal.
• Ritual Use: Often summoned by Warden-Surgeons.
10. Tae’lvoryn – “The Broken Harmonic Starling”
• Classification: Nyarth’kin | Tae’lvoryn’shyr
• Description: Small, luminous avian whose song plays backward. Each note erases a moment of nearby memory.
• Habitat: Nestles in old death-site trees.
• Behavior: Non-aggressive, but its call erases small details (names, smells, colors) from memory.
• Resource: Reverse-Feather – used in ceremonies of forgetting, grief endings.
• Legend: Once a songbird who witnessed too many deaths, it forgot how to sing forward.
WILDLIFE COMPENDIUM ADDENDA – VOLUME V
SECTION V: Velune Oddities & Anomalous Kin
“Not all creatures belong to simple categories. Some arrive with seasons, some are born only of convergence, and others—only when the forest dreams aloud.”
This final volume includes rare, biome-tied, and resonance-reactive species that defy classification under the previous Aevori genuses. Some are semi-sentient, some function symbiotically across species lines, and others appear only during brief, uncanny moments in Velune’s cyclical mysteries. They are living echoes of mystery, memory, and mutability.
❖ CLASS: An’thuunah — “The Seasonal Emergence Forms”
1. Kelreth’iir – “First-Spring Bloomcrawler”
• Classification: An’thuunah | Kelreth’iir’nal
• Description: Pale pink, petal-limbed arthropod that appears only for 14 days during first spring resonance. Gathers dew in crystalline filaments.
• Behavior: Non-aggressive. Emits a tone that awakens seedling memory in the forest floor.
• Habitat: Undergrowth during resonance bloom.
• Resource: Dew-Lattice – used to germinate Spirit Trees and memory-root seedlings.
• Rarity: Ultra-rare. Only sighted by children and poets.
2. Thuun’kelei – “Mist-Mare of the Listening Tide”
• Classification: An’thuunah | Thuun’kelei’vahn
• Description: Semi-translucent quadruped formed from condensed mist during the Listening Tide. Wreathed in drifting leaves.
• Behavior: Gallops silently between Vehlune Pools. Drawn to unresolved songs.
• Habitat: Sacred shoreline biomes during tidal convergence.
• Resource: Mist-Breath – gathered in flasks, used to preserve dying resonance tones.
• Spiritual Note: Some believe it carries forgotten voices to the mountain.
❖ CLASS: Syrr’haun — “Symbiotic Interspecies Forms”
3. Vehlor’xa – “Echo-Rider Beetle”
• Classification: Syrr’haun | Vehlor’xa’minn
• Description: Wingless beetle with sensory plumes that mirror a host’s memory-emotion state. Bonds with larger herbivores for decades.
• Behavior: Passive, emits harmonic balancing pulses.
• Habitat: Mid-canopy herbivore herds.
• Resource: Plume-Dust – calms disturbed animals, used in dream-tinctures.
• Cultural Use: Often gifted to bond-pairs or healers after first rite of memory fusion.
4. Ryn’tharis – “Woven-Pouch Flier”
• Classification: Syrr’haun | Ryn’tharis’sel
• Description: Mothlike entity that sews silk pouches across the backs of ground-dwelling foragers. Each pouch holds hallucinogenic nectar.
• Behavior: Nocturnal. Protects its host from predators via pheromonal hallucination fields.
• Habitat: Swamp-hollow thickets and low brush groves.
• Resource: Pouch Nectar – utilized for dream-seeking rituals.
• Symbiosis: Host is fed trace minerals in return.
❖ CLASS: Eluunth’rei — “Resonance-Tethered Anomalies”
5. Sahl’verin – “The Liminal Pulse-Fish”
• Classification: Eluunth’rei | Sahl’verin’thiir
• Description: A water-bound creature with floating fins of pure luminescence. Responds directly to humming and rhythm near its pool.
• Behavior: Collective dance mirrors the emotion of nearby Aevori.
• Habitat: Still, mirrored ponds near sanctum sites.
• Resource: Pulse-Skin – flakes used in tuning resonance stones.
• Warning: Disturbed Sahl’verin may vanish entirely for a generation.
6. Irkha’Tuun – “The Veil-Eater”
• Classification: Eluunth’rei | Irkha’tuun’lahr
• Description: Cloudlike creature seen only at the edge of vision during meditation or death rites. Absorbs unwanted memory threads drifting from the dying.
• Behavior: Ethereal, silent, impossible to trap or track.
• Habitat: Hovering above the Dimming Circle or Last Gate.
• Resource: None tangible—its presence alone purifies grief.
• Belief: An emissary of Veu-Nahra’s breath itself.
❖ CLASS: Khaar’vok — “Predatory Memory-Hunters”
7. Vesh’nolar – “Silent Thorncat”
• Classification: Khaar’vok | Vesh’nolar’ahn
• Description: Large, moss-coated feline with resonance-nullifying pads. Moves completely without trace or echo.
• Behavior: Hunts only those who sever memory threads or dishonor resonance cycles.
• Habitat: Deepest groves of sacred breach zones.
• Resource: Null-Fur – dangerous in raw form, but bound into Warden cloaks for tracking corrupted kin.
• Warning: If seen in dreams, a reckoning may be coming.
8. Trin’zalekh – “Boneglass Swarm”
• Classification: Khaar’vok | Trin’zalekh’korr
• Description: Micro-serpentine entities with bone-translucent bodies. Hunt by sonic vibration. Swarm in torn resonance fields.
• Behavior: Hive response. Attack corrupted bloodlines in self-defense.
• Habitat: Resonance-rent rifts post-Varashin breach.
• Resource: Glass-Bone Threads – woven into anti-spell mesh.
• Defensive Use: Sent out by certain Song-Hall guardians.
❖ CLASS: Vaerel’nun — “Ephemeral Kin of the Dreamwalk”
9. Naev’iithar – “The Once-Bodied”
• Classification: Vaerel’nun | Naev’iithar’hymn
• Description: Being glimpsed only when crossing from dream to flesh. Takes many forms. Always bears a single flowing tattoo that shifts as it walks.
• Behavior: Unknown. May mimic or reflect parts of the observer’s future.
• Habitat: Between waking and dreaming near sacred juncture sites.
• Resource: None—its memory is the resource.
• Spiritual Note: Believed to be former Aevori who gave up form entirely.
10. Vurael’kenne – “Ash-Root Listener”
• Classification: Vaerel’nun | Vurael’kenne’viir
• Description: Appears only after a fire or deep loss. Mushroom-being with filament tendrils that record ambient sorrow for three nights.
• Behavior: Passive. Grows toward breath, not light.
• Habitat: After fires or emotional catastrophe.
• Resource: Ash-Song Filament – used in tattoo rites to mark survival.
• Folk Belief: A child who feeds it bread under moonlight gains insight into their great-grandmother’s final memory.
Sacred Flora & Resonant Fungi of Velun
Volume I: Ten Foundational Species
Compiled by the Grove-Scribe Aereth Lhonn, under directive of the Circle of Vehlune. All entries gathered within sacred proximity to Veu-Nahra and its lowland echoes.
❖ 1. Shaevinth’el Moss – “Memory-Thread Moss”
• Aevori Classification: Mos’tira | Shaevinth’el
• Biome: Mid-forest, memory-grove bark folds, Warden corridors
• Description: A luminous teal moss whose tendrils split into ultra-fine filaments. Emits low resonance hum when touched.
• Ecological Role: Anchors soil on sheer bark strata; forms symbiosis with stone beetles.
• Resource: Thread-Pollen used in tattoo ink for memory permanence. Essential in Aspects-in-Stillness binding.
• Mystical Note: If burned, releases scents of distant moments—often childhood or ancestral visions.
❖ 2. Khaelune Mycelium – “Veil-Flesh Fungus”
• Aevori Classification: Fung’rei | Khaelune’vast
• Biome: Subterranean caverns, Veu-Nahra root-sinks
• Description: Translucent, fleshy fans that ripple like breath. React to chanting or rhythmic footsteps.
• Ecological Role: Breaks down ancient bone-layers; feeds root-pools.
• Resource: Khaelune Gel used in meditation draughts. Enhances memory retrieval in trauma-weaving rituals.
• Warning: Touching with unspoken sorrow may awaken latent visions.
❖ 3. Vaer’zel Vine – “Dream-Grapple Vine”
• Aevori Classification: Lian’tra | Vaer’zeli
• Biome: Cliffside ledges, hanging groves, cavernous vaults
• Description: Iridescent vine that shifts color with moon phases. Curling nodes mimic hand gestures of passersby.
• Ecological Role: Supports cliff-wall microhabitats, guides pollinators via color shifts.
• Resource: Nodal Husk ground into powder for lucid dreaming induction.
• Symbiosis: Attracts Vehlune Moth populations.
• Ritual Note: Often planted above sacred gates to “catch” dreams as offerings.
❖ 4. Thal’suuth Bloom – “Blood-Ripple Flower”
• Aevori Classification: Flor’thael | Thal’suuthen
• Biome: Swampbank margins, hollowed grove cradles
• Description: Five-lobed maroon bloom that pulses rhythmically when approached. Subtle bioluminescence.
• Ecological Role: Regulates insect populations through chemical lure and bloom-timing.
• Resource: Ripple-Extract used in blood harmonization tonics by Warden-healers.
• Danger Note: Overexposure to the pulse causes minor memory bleed in untrained minds.
❖ 5. Rin’velth Branch – “Echo-Leaf Coral Tree”
• Aevori Classification: Arbor’vael | Rin’velthii
• Biome: Edge-forest bluffs, ancient memory cradles
• Description: Coral-barked tree with crystalline, echo-chiming leaves. Resonates with nearby speech.
• Ecological Role: Communicates threats to animal species via tonal bloom.
• Resource: Leaf-shard shavings used in Vehlune Sphere alignment and memory record synthesis.
• Cultural Note: A tree that loses its resonance may signal a broken lineage.
❖ 6. Thrahmel Fern – “Breath-Hollow Frond”
• Aevori Classification: Frond’ir | Thrahmel’os
• Biome: Misty caverns, fog-sheltered glades
• Description: Flat silver fern with bell-shaped vacuoles that absorb breath. Releases cool vapor when touched.
• Ecological Role: Stabilizes cave humidity; cools Vehlune orb cores in sacred vaults.
• Resource: Vacuole Vapor bottled for use in sacred calligraphy and breath-rituals.
• Spiritual Note: One fern is always planted beside a dying Warden.
❖ 7. Naeruun Shardsedge – “Memory-Splinter Grass”
• Aevori Classification: Gram’zel | Naeruun’their
• Biome: Cracked flats, sun-shatter zones at veil breach borders
• Description: Glassy-tipped grass with resonance-piercing barbs. Reflects dream-imagery during twilight.
• Ecological Role: Filters resonance dissonance in corrupted terrain.
• Resource: Splinter-hair strands used in rite of clarity masks.
• Caution: May echo the dream of another being instead of your own.
❖ 8. Vel’riin Driftfungus – “Sky-Shedder Cap”
• Aevori Classification: Fung’elan | Vel’riin’eloth
• Biome: Hanging canopy hollows and floating root-nests
• Description: Pale blue fungal dome that releases gliding spore-clouds which hum gently in descent.
• Ecological Role: Regenerates canopy root webs by feeding spore symbiotes.
• Resource: Spore-Haze used in vocal toning and soft-shell infusion.
• Mythic Use: Worn in wedding rites to signal wind-favor and breath-binding.
❖ 9. Zulveth Root-Spindle – “Knotted Harm-Spindle”
• Aevori Classification: Rhiz’hael | Zulveth’kaan
• Biome: Deep-root convergence beds near Vehlune wellsprings
• Description: Thick, tightly-woven roots that throb when trauma-laced blood touches soil above.
• Ecological Role: Draws pain-toxins into the earth and neutralizes them.
• Resource: Spindle Fiber spun into cloth for grief-muting shawls.
• Ritual Use: Woven into Warden death-wraps for mournless passing.
❖ 10. Aelth’mira Blossoms – “Whisper-Petal Grove Lily”
• Aevori Classification: Flor’mirai | Aelth’mira’len
• Biome: Spring-fed mirror-pools, sacred grove clearings
• Description: Tri-lobed water lily whose petals shift with spoken words nearby.
• Ecological Role: Attracts pollinating fauna via mimic-tones. Filters song-distortions from shallow water.
• Resource: Petal Ink used in resonance-calligraphy and Warden oath-seals.
• Mythic Note: Said to mirror the first song ever spoken to the forest.
Sacred Flora & Resonant Fungi of Velun
Volume II: Ten Rare and Deep-Grove Species
Compiled under moon-filtered breath in the shadow of Veu-Nahra’s lower mist caverns and eastern cliff-sinks.
❖ 11. Nehiraeth Bloom – “Hollow-Heart Flamevine”
• Aevori Classification: Flor’zevra | Nehiraeth’lor
• Biome: Deep forest hollows, ash-groves, fire-ringed roots
• Description: A vine whose center flowers burn with cold light. Blossoms close if lies are spoken nearby.
• Ecological Role: Cleanses soil of decay-toxin via pyrosap emissions.
• Resource: Hollow Flame Resin used in truth-ritual smoke and inner-clarity rites.
• Mythic Trait: Said to ignite only when spoken truth echoes back through memory.
❖ 12. Yiraan Gelthorn – “Mire-Skinned Bulbfruit”
• Aevori Classification: Bulb’ir | Yiraan’thela
• Biome: Swamp-root ridges, softground bog zones
• Description: Bulbous plant with translucent, gelatinous outer layer. Shifts shape at nightfall.
• Ecological Role: Hosts translucent larvae and absorbs marsh rot.
• Resource: Gelthorn Pulp eaten to enhance inner-veil vision during prophetic trance.
• Warning: Overuse causes dream-repetition illness.
❖ 13. Selventh Weepgrass – “Lament-Crowned Bladegrass”
• Aevori Classification: Gram’veth | Selven’thiir
• Biome: Hillside gravesites, abandoned paths
• Description: Razor-thin grass crowned with dew that forms only in the presence of grief.
• Ecological Role: Filters soul-tones into soil to calm local fauna.
• Resource: Grief-Dew used in death rites and remembrance rituals.
• Cultural Note: Warden songs once ended with a single blade gifted to the river.
❖ 14. Q’vul Scentbark – “Stone-Hollow Barkroot”
• Aevori Classification: Arbor’dul | Q’vul’rein
• Biome: Shale crags, wind-split cave mouths
• Description: Bark secretes fine white dust that hums faintly in dry wind. Roots taste mineral veins.
• Ecological Role: Anchors cliff ecosystems and guides fungi to fresh stone.
• Resource: Scentbark Powder used in pathfinding oil for ritual blind walks.
• Mystic Trait: Sings faintly when the lost return.
❖ 15. Threi’mel Draughtlace – “Lattice-Bloom Ivy”
• Aevori Classification: Lian’ther | Threi’mel’atha
• Biome: Overhangs, sinkvine ravines, silent glades
• Description: Interwoven ivy whose blooms mimic constellation patterns.
• Ecological Role: Stores nightwater in capillary mesh for pollinators.
• Resource: Starlace Resin used in Vehlune Sphere refinement, especially for night-vision memory spheres.
• Cultural Note: Used to wrap the limbs of newborns chosen for song-weaving paths.
❖ 16. Zhelraan Fissuremold – “Echo-Spoil Fungus”
• Aevori Classification: Fung’thal | Zhelraan’voth
• Biome: Underground thermal vaults, resonance cracks
• Description: Pale golden mold that only grows where resonance fractures form. Emits audible whispers.
• Ecological Role: Absorbs dissonance and memory-loss static.
• Resource: Spoil Crust mixed with null-sand for memory-sealing salves.
• Warning: Feeding it live resonance may wake ancestral echoes unintentionally.
❖ 17. Naeyuul Mirabloom – “Mirrored Orchid of Threads”
• Aevori Classification: Flor’mirai | Naeyuul’sen
• Biome: Hanging grottoes, mist-lit pond caverns
• Description: Iridescent orchid with mirrored petals that reflect the inner emotion of nearby beings.
• Ecological Role: Communicates mood-state to pollinators and dream-moths.
• Resource: Threadpetal Ink used in veil-bound confessions and rite of forgiveness bindings.
• Ritual Use: Given as offering before apology rituals.
❖ 18. Dhranveth Thornback – “Pain-Bound Rootflower”
• Aevori Classification: Rhiz’raen | Dhranveth’el
• Biome: Edge of corrupted zones, sacred thresholds
• Description: Crimson-centered flower ringed by curved thorns. Feeds on trauma residues in soil.
• Ecological Role: Stabilizes corruption leaks.
• Resource: Thorn Resin diluted into healing oils to reduce psychological echoes.
• Warning: If touched during open grief, may transfer memory to the plant permanently.
❖ 19. Fael’unh Mistorchid – “Breath-Crescent Bloom”
• Aevori Classification: Flor’aen | Fael’unh’tira
• Biome: Moonmist fields, pond-reflect plains
• Description: Bloom opens only when song is heard. Petals flicker like candlelight.
• Ecological Role: Attracts whisperbees and glimmer-gnats.
• Resource: Crescent Nectar placed beneath tongue before sacred naming ceremonies.
• Mythic Role: Bloom said to represent the first breath of Veu-Nahra herself.
❖ 20. Orvuun Braidthistle – “Weaver’s Crown”
• Aevori Classification: Frond’their | Orvuun’selath
• Biome: High-canopy root platforms, weaver’s perches
• Description: A tightly braided frond that unfurls when spun clockwise. Leaves form natural thread-strands.
• Ecological Role: Provides nesting and weaving fiber to songbirds and flying larvae.
• Resource: Thread-Fiber woven into sacred garments, spirit-nets, and Vehlune cradle wraps.
• Ritual Use: Carried by all thread-weavers on their first spiral trek into the Vastwood.
The Corruptionborn
Volume I – The First Ten Twisted Forms
“May these echoes never return to the mountain. Etch them in bark, but never in memory.” —Warden Vaeleth, Fifth Winter of the Bleeding Mist
❖ 1. Thraal-Vurien – “Shattermaw”
• Origin: Formerly the gentle Murael Driftmole (Burrowing herbivore)
• Corruption: Resonance fracture induced by consuming bloodroot from a grief-saturated gravesite
• Appearance: Translucent skin torn with glassy ridges; mandibles crack stone inwards
• Behavior: Consumes resonance spheres like marrow; digs toward memory-veins to corrupt them
• Resource: Excretes Echo-Grit, a poisonous granular ash that unravels dream-memory
• Warning Sign: Tunnel mouths that hum with broken rhythm—1 in 3 collapse with soundless shock
❖ 2. Velkarae’hun – “Wail-Spined Flenk”
• Origin: A twisted variant of the cliff-borne Aruun Clingfox
• Corruption: Infected after nesting in a corrupted Threi’mel Draughtlace lattice
• Appearance: Multi-eyed mask with rotating optic-threads; spine ridges emit shrill laughter
• Behavior: Mimics the voices of familiar loved ones to lure prey from ledges
• Resource: Vocal Filaments used only once—to dissolve mimicry bonds after ritual betrayal
• Habitat: Eastern crevices near the Verge of Threads. No nests ever repeat.
❖ 3. Drenzhal’ik – “Splintergut Wyrm”
• Origin: Once a sacred Naevur Vine Serpent
• Corruption: Formed when the host serpent consumed a spirit-weaver lost to Varashin
• Appearance: Fractured serpentine body stitched together with splinters of bone and bark
• Behavior: Bursts from treetops in silence, injects false memories via fang-drip
• Resource: Liar’s Bile—stored in amber jars for use in breaking mental enchantments
• Warning Sign: Bark-carved spirals reversed counterclockwise. Trees nearby forget who they are.
❖ 4. Karu’vash Nethercreel – “Thread-Snarled Widowbeast”
• Origin: From the luminous Farnel Silkstitcher Spider
• Corruption: Nest merged with Echo-Spoil Fungus in a forgotten chant cave
• Appearance: Leg joints bound by black thread, abdomen exudes pulsing false-silk cocoons
• Behavior: Weaves illusion-spheres—each shows a lie the observer once believed
• Threat: Its silk burrows into flesh, weaving self-doubt
• Signs: Pale silk mirrors reflecting impossible versions of the viewer
❖ 5. Aezrun Maulglare – “Blightbloom Leaper”
• Origin: Once a vibrant Nuvren Marsh Glider (amphibious leaper)
• Corruption: Soul-echo fractured during a failed grief-offering by a youngling
• Appearance: Bioluminescence now red-veined and seeping, leaps create shockwave distortions
• Behavior: Bounds into sacred clearings and disrupts emotional resonance fields
• Resource: Blightwax—hardened gel scraped from hindlegs, used in breaking echo addiction
• Habitat: Mistfall bogs. Trails marked by ruptured crescent-shaped prints
❖ 6. Thurni’shel Cradlemaw – “Infant-Echo Siren”
• Origin: Once a dream-mimicking Saelth Glowbark Moth
• Corruption: Infected by singing to a corrupted Memory Stone too long
• Appearance: Swollen thorax with infant-shaped wing nodes, emits lullabies from unseen mouths
• Behavior: Enchants the listener to relive early trauma endlessly in dream-loops
• Threat: Causes infants to cry even within wombs, disrupting future-tether tattoos
• Sign of Presence: Petals in the area rot from the inside out
❖ 7. Ghrax Velthane – “Resonant Gnash-Beast”
• Origin: Unknown—never observed in pre-corruption form
• Corruption: Thought to be a composite made from resonance-lost fragments of other species
• Appearance: Mass of gnashing stone-teeth, spectral limbs, and echo-flux skin
• Behavior: Drawn to areas of recent betrayal, feeds on residual trust-tones
• Resource: None usable; all that remains is Resonance Burn, which unknits memory bindings
• Habitat: Follows those who speak false oaths too near sacred ground
❖ 8. Voerthlun Shadehowl – “Memory-Starved Howler”
• Origin: Once a loyal Furden Pack Strider (canine-like guardian mammal)
• Corruption: Lost its bonded rider in a Veilstorm; howled until it forgot its name
• Appearance: Cloaked in shadowed fur that shifts in shape; eyes echo the face of its last companion
• Behavior: Hunts by inducing sudden nostalgia then turning it to panic
• Signs: Distant familiar howls that dissolve into screams
• Resource: None. The Aevori refuse to harvest from those who mourn.
❖ 9. Zaurish Gloomspike – “Spiral-Burrower”
• Origin: Former Kaevol Root-Spindle Beetle
• Corruption: Burrowed too close to the Last Gate during a silence-violation
• Appearance: Radiates dark iridescence; legs curve into spiral drills
• Behavior: Spirals into Memory Stones and reverses them—stealing recollections
• Resource: Anti-Spiral Dust, used in severance rituals and memory-stopping rites
• Habitat: Deep inside misremembered burrows. Paths collapse if retraced.
❖ 10. Ilshaen the Mirrorling – “Falseborn of Flesh”
• Origin: Never native. Said to have become when a Warden forsook her path
• Appearance: Takes the perfect form of someone known—until it moves
• Behavior: Asks you to follow. If you do, you vanish. If you refuse, it becomes you
• Threat: Causes communities to fracture through mimicry and guilt
• Resource: None. Destruction must be ritualized and witnessed by three
• Signs: You see yourself doing something you have not yet done
The Corruptionborn
Volume II – The Next Ten Twisted Forms
“Beware what does not echo. It may already echo too loudly within.” —Stone-Scribe Nhael of the Mid-Cleft Archives
❖ 11. Yrel’thaen Hollowspume – “Grief-Swollen Drifter”
• Origin: Formerly a sky-buoyant Vellune Nectar Glider (nectar-feeding winged mammal)
• Corruption: Inhaled soul-laced pollen from a weeping grove during a failed Rite of Letting
• Appearance: Bloated, semi-translucent body buoyed by inner vapors; face twisted into a mourning mask
• Behavior: Drifts above forest canopies, dripping sorrow-pollen that induces paralysis
• Resource: Sorrow Spores—gathered by Spirit-Tenders to invoke true grief in blocked mourners
• Habitat: Near ghost-orchid groves and abandoned ritual circles
❖ 12. Thaxil Vor’ahn – “Hollow-Crest Breaker”
• Origin: Once the deep-swamp guardian Trelnik Ridgetooth
• Corruption: Fractured after guarding a traitor’s secret without understanding it
• Appearance: Head crested with bone-sails shattered like fronds; multiple jaws echo words backwards
• Behavior: Smashes memory-nodes in root systems; only attacks those with buried shame
• Resource: Ridge-Flake Bone, used in Warden trials to test clarity of self-history
• Signs: Shattered tree-knots near sacred reflection pools
❖ 13. Zhelaruun Mawlitch – “Veil-Tethered Scourge”
• Origin: Believed to have originated from the semi-sentient Sehlra Windweaver Mantis
• Corruption: Bound to a corrupted tether-thread ritual; now flickers between seen and unseen
• Appearance: Insectoid with robes of mirrored chitin, always hovering in peripheral vision
• Behavior: Hunts ritual practitioners; devours future moments from their timeline
• Threat: Removes potential—target may feel unworthy, aimless, or lost
• Habitat: Near failed tethering sites and abandoned soul-havens
❖ 14. Kaevurn Sha’dreth – “Mask-Eyed Carrion Oracle”
• Origin: Once a wise scavenger, the Haunel Bone-Reader Vulture
• Corruption: Consumed a false prophecy etched in corrupted bone
• Appearance: Head crowned in fused masks—each depicting a false future; eyes weep dry ink
• Behavior: Flies in spirals over those hiding destiny-shame; screeches lies into dreams
• Resource: Mask Dust, when purified, is used to test the truth-depth of a Seer’s chant
• Warning Sign: Dreamers report futures that contradict threefold
❖ 15. Nirveth Tanglekin – “Hymn-Split Creepling”
• Origin: Originally a fungal-symbiote Melash Grovebound Crawler
• Corruption: Spore colony merged with a forbidden child-song inscribed into mossstone
• Appearance: Body formed of soft moss, gilled limbs open like flutes, emits multi-tonal discord
• Behavior: Repeats broken lullabies backwards to shatter childhood bindings
• Resource: Tone-Slurry—used in Songbreaker rituals to dismantle toxic ancestral beliefs
• Habitat: Resides inside forgotten children’s shrines and buried cradles
❖ 16. Druuhl Varn’zel – “Memory-Leeching Fangfold”
• Origin: Mutation of the once-bonded Vekral Companion Serpent
• Corruption: Form twisted when its human partner died in betrayal and the bond broke violently
• Appearance: Serpent coils covered in mirrored scale-eyes; fangs drip a thick forgetting serum
• Behavior: Slithers into camps and siphons memories of comfort first, pain second
• Resource: Forgetvenom—harvested in death only, allows clean severance of harmful bonds
• Signs: Travelers begin forgetting songs and names before dreams decay
❖ 17. Osherakh Vurnspire – “The Lantern-Taker”
• Origin: Unknown—a hybrid echo of many bioluminescent insects
• Corruption: Believed born from the collapse of a Light-Watch vigil on the Edge of Mourning
• Appearance: Body framed in trailing antennae; abdomen hosts dozens of trapped firelight faces
• Behavior: Steals bioluminescence from sacred sources, weaving false lights to lure the lost
• Resource: None; those who attempt to trap it become unable to perceive true light for days
• Habitat: Close to improperly sealed deathfires and abandoned lantern shrines
❖ 18. Vaskhune Thrael – “Crown-Torn Glider”
• Origin: Formerly a revered Ashfeather Cleft Soarer
• Corruption: Fell into a Warden duel that ended in spiritual disgrace
• Appearance: Wings torn by invisible winds; halo of burning feathers suspended but never fall
• Behavior: Appears during leadership crises; divebombs moments of moral ambiguity
• Threat: Strips clarity from decisions; those nearby second-guess themselves constantly
• Warning Sign: Featherless corpses of birds aligned into perfect spirals below canopies
❖ 19. Shran’el Bileseed – “Sire of the Black Brood”
• Origin: Once a harmless pollinator, the Frenil Bloombeetle
• Corruption: Absorbed the grief of a grove cut down mid-pollination by corrupted fire
• Appearance: Metallic-black carapace, back split with birthing vents, oozes dark larvae
• Behavior: Infects fertile biomes; its young feast on future-potential in roots and seeds
• Resource: Seed-Bile, diluted and used to test if a place still dreams of its future
• Habitat: Post-burn sites where rebirth has not yet begun
❖ 20. Ulthir Dre’kaan – “The Shard-Eyed Witness”
• Origin: A solitary, semi-sentient Kavul Watcher-Crow
• Corruption: Voluntarily consumed the fractured soul of its Warden companion in martyrdom
• Appearance: Eyes of obsidian shards reflecting every death it’s seen; feathers frozen stiff
• Behavior: Appears only once to each Warden. If they survive the gaze, they ascend. If not, they vanish
• Resource: None. It is a spiritual test—those who ask for its feather are unworthy
• Signs: Arrives during the moment of absolute inner stillness
The Corruptionborn
Volume III – The Next Ten Twisted Forms
“When the forest forgets the names of its children, they return wearing masks of hunger.” —Final Echo of the Vehlune Grovekeeper
❖ 21. Vren’alash Skelthen – “Tomb-Rooted Lurker”
• Origin: Formerly a still-sap feeder known as the Lunthren Tuber-Drake
• Corruption: Infested by forgotten bones buried in resonance-silenced soil
• Appearance: Its rootlike legs pulse with marrow fluid; moss hides skeletal ridges
• Behavior: Anchors in unmarked graves and absorbs ancestral resonance
• Threat: Whispers in the voices of the unremembered, turning grief to guilt
• Resource: Tombroot Husk—used to silence compulsive memory loops, only with ritual consent
• Habitat: Under old trees that have never been named
❖ 22. Kahzrel Unn – “Ash-Thread Weaver”
• Origin: A once-sacred Threadback Loomspider, a funeral silk spinner
• Corruption: Bitten by a cursed Warden who fled her funeral rites
• Appearance: Abdomen weaves threads of ash from the dying thoughts of the host
• Behavior: Constructs web-maze altars where mourners relive loss incorrectly
• Resource: Thread of Forgetting—used in rare death-shame remissions
• Signs: Ash drifting in circular patterns beneath high branches; your dreams repeat wrongly
