Verdant Inhibitors

• Primarily used to delay or suppress spore colonization, keeping the wearer’s body from fully integrating into the plantfolk consciousness.
• Most often granted to:
• Diplomats who must stay human(oid) for political reasons.
• Families trying to protect children until they come of age to choose transformation.
• Scholars conducting mycological research who need clear minds.

Misuse:

• Some outside forces (or even Vale residents fearful of becoming something other) have used stolen Inhibitors to forcibly halt transformations, sometimes causing physical and psychic backlash.
• A few outlier communities see this as a betrayal of the Vale’s gifts, leading to vandalism or theft of stored devices.

• Crafted in Honeyknell Hollow, overseen by the Circle’s artisans.
• The silvervine is coaxed to grow into delicate filigrees under moonlight, then set with frostquartz mined by friendly badgerfolk.
• Final enchantments are performed in communal moonbloom circles to ensure the devices resonate with local ley lines.

Because the work is so personal and spiritually sensitive, mass production is impossible — each piece is handmade and partially bonded to the wearer during a small ritu

• Has created a philosophical divide:
• Some Vale folk see the Inhibitors as a tragic necessity for guests and fragile mortals, respecting bodily autonomy.
• Others view them as a denial of the Vale’s sacred gift, interrupting the beautiful cycle of life becoming life anew.
• It’s also fueled subtle tensions with the mushroom folk communities, who sometimes see these devices as tools of rejection or prejudice.

Meanwhile, travelers and certain parents clutch these devices with desperate relief, grateful for any means to delay the profound (and not always consensual) embrace of the Vale’s spores.