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Pits - Spooktober 2025

Lord of the Prompts | Spooktober 2025
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Fruit of the Glacial Fern

Answering Prompt: Pits
Glacial ferns are inherently magical plants, growing from earth infused with the energy of the land's underlying leylines. It is theorized, however, that these plants are not new life brought by the leylines, but rather a native plant transformed by the surge of arcane energy throughout the forests. This is a theory supported by the Lessai practice of glacial fern cultivation and harvest, as the people draw traditionally-consumed pitted fruit from the ferns that they are no longer known to produce.
I think the concept of the Lessai people and this plant as used in their culture was one of the very first ideas I truly invested in developing when started building out Malkora. Because of that, it's pretty fun to go back into this article and some related ones to make some corrections about how it functions, the connections it has to the leylines and natural environment, and how the people interact with it.
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