Flora
Beneath the Myrr forest canopy the Lanternveil Mycelflower rises in clusters of waist-high ivory stipes capped with a veiled bell-shape that drips a skirt of spore-light filaments toward the leaf-litter. The cap is pale chartreuse, gill-rose at the underside, and glows steadily at 530 Hz, brightening sharply when chord-traffic crosses the wider mycelial net below. The skirt of filaments stirs in the slightest air, each strand a chain of luminous bead-spores that detach and drift away as living lanterns when ripe. The stipe is firm, faintly velvety, and warm to the touch; the gills exhale a slow chartreuse breath of spores that gather around the foot of the bell in a glowing pool. There is no true leaf or flower, but the mycelial net beneath the forest floor stretches kilometers, woven through every Pact-Hound paw-step, and a Lanternveil cluster acts as a visible breath-vent for the deeper net. By the height of Pale Sister, an entire understory of clusters can light a Myrr village without lamps.
Spore-light extends visibility into otherwise lightless under-canopy and is sympathetic to the Myrr mycorrhizal communion
Myrr settlements are built around Lanternveil clusters, and a village's worth is measured in how many bells light its main path. To uproot a cluster without communion-leave is treated as severing a finger of the Myrr collective. Older Myrr say each detached lantern-spore that drifts away carries a memory from the net to seed in a new place, so an empty meadow stippled with chartreuse drift-lights is interpreted as a place ready to remember.
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