Loom Vine Devotion

First enacted in the early years following the Great Sundering, Loom Vine Devotion began as a simple harvest gratitude rite. Loomvines, strange, semi-magical plants that grew near broken Weavepaths, were observed to grow stronger in areas where Threadwrights performed ancestral memory rites. Over time, the people realized that these vines were not only nourished by soil and light, but by memory, grief, and unity.   The rite evolved into a sacred exchange: the people offer their year’s memories, both joyful and sorrowful, and the loomvine offers spiritual fruit, from which ink, oil, and cord are drawn.

The Loom Vine Devotion is conducted at dusk during the first full moon after the solstice, when the vines’ aetheric roots are most resonant. Participants weave their year’s memories recorded as short stanzas, glyph knots, or scent vials into a communal Sash offered to the oldest loomvine in the grove.   Threadwrights chant the Weft Canticle while scentcords are lit. The communal Sash is then wrapped around the vine’s base while participants touch it with bare hands, allowing their emotional resonance to be absorbed.   The ritual ends with the vine producing its year's fruit, an aether-laced bloom or seedpod believed to carry the community’s future omens.

• Sash Threads (woven by participants from personal fibers or gifted cloth)

• Scentcord Rings (to trigger specific memories during offering)

• Aether-Moss Bowls (to collect the lingering emotional vapor)

• Glowroot Chalk (used to inscribe old Thal’Sylin glyphs in spirals around the vine)

• Memory Knots (small woven braids symbolizing loss, placed at the vine’s base)

• The Threadwright leads the ritual, binding and interpreting the emotional resonance.

• The Cordmother or Cordfather from The Keepers of Kin oversees the spiritual aspect and collects any memory tokens left for reunification purposes.

• Memory Carriers—usually elders or volunteers—bear old fragments of unresolved memories from those unable to attend, ensuring no voice is left unheard.

• The Community Chorus hums a soft background tone throughout, known as the “Weave Underneath.”

Every diaspora enclave performs this ritual annually, and it is often the most sacred gathering of the year. Children are introduced to their ancestry during this rite, couples affirm their bindings, and the unSashed may seek quiet approval to join the memoryline of a new kin-group.   It is customary for communities to share a meal afterward, usually featuring Glowroot Stew, honey-braided vinebread, and Threadfruit tea—if the loomvine bears fruit that year.   No ritual in Thalrani culture better captures the balance of memory, land, and lineage than the Loom Vine Devotion. To observe it is to remember that no thread, no matter how frayed, is truly lost.