Pale Sister's Veil Lily

Pale Sister's Veil Lily grows in waist-high stands along ceremonial paths and chord-shrines, a slim silver-stemmed lily whose long lanceolate leaves are nearly white. The trumpet flower opens only under Pale Sister's light, six luminous-white petals folding back from a pale silver throat and glowing in steady 480 Hz light that reads silver from any distance. Closed under sunlight, the bud is a tight pale-grey spindle that catches dew. The scent is cool jasmine over cold stone, faint by day and pronounced under moonlight when the petals open. Bulbs sit shallow and prefer shrine-disturbed ground over wild meadow, so a stand of Veil Lily reliably marks an old ceremonial place even when other markers have eroded. A solitary lily on a road is read as a grave-marker by all five Veyari subtypes, and travelers leave a pebble at the bulb in passing. Cut blooms hold their moonlight glow for three nights before fading and going to soft grey paper.

Petals retain Pale Sister's chord and serve as a gentle, true light source for chord-sensitive rituals

All five Veyari subtypes plant Veil Lily on graves and at chord-shrines. The petals' light is read as Pale Sister's own attention turned briefly to the place, and a Veil Lily that fails to open under a clear full Pale Sister is taken as a serious omen requiring a chord-augur to interpret. The Concord of Five forbids harvesting the bulb except at sanctioned ceremonial replanting.