The Necro-Botanists

Life feeds on Death; This is the only Unforgivable Truth.

Core Concept

The Loam-Kindred see the opposition between life and death as a profound but incomplete understanding. Their core Faith is that life and death are not opposites, but two interdependent phases of a single, continuous process of creation. They are masters of a unique and somewhat unsettling craft: necro-botany.

Physiology & Biology

Their forms often appear as a fusion of plant-like and skeletal or ghostly elements. A being might have a body of woven wood, but with branches that are smooth, white, and bone-like. Or they might have spectral, semi-transparent limbs from which living flowers bloom. They are living embodiments of the compost heap: the beautiful cycle of rot and rebirth.

Psychology & Society (Faith / Fiction)

Core Faith: "" They revere the cycle itself above its individual components. They see the Arborians as naive for denying the necessity of decay, and the Thanatechs as cynical for denying the sanctity of what grows from it.

Core Fiction: Their central myth is that of the “First Seed,” which could only sprout after it was planted in the heart of the “First to Die.” They believe all life is a beautiful flower growing from the soil of a universal, primordial grief.

Gameplay Hooks & Tensions

Their Craft system is unique, requiring both biological components (Seeds, Living Wood, Pollen) and Eidic components harvested from the dead ([Memory_of_Grief], [Echo_of_Rage], [Essence_of_Lasting_Love]). To create their most powerful items, a player must be both a gardener and a grave-robber.

This creates complex moral and practical dilemmas. Do you protect a sacred grove for its living resources, or do you allow a battle to happen there to harvest the potent emotional Eidos that will soak into the soil?

Eidos Generated

• [cyclical_creation]
• [life_from_death]
• [necro-botany]
• [the_beautiful_rot]
• [grief_as_fertilizer]