Glassic Flower

Within the Shifting Maze are areas with rings of Glassic Flowers. 
Within these rings, there's a face off between the multiplication and division elemental wisps that run all throughout Realm-R. 
Within these rings the topic of fractions often surfaces. Diving and multiplying by fractions does the opposite to diving and multiplying by whole number after all. Divide by 2 and you get half, multiply by two and you get double. Divide by a half and you get double, multiply by a half and you get half. 
The rings of Glassic flowers seems to have grown naturally, the rings are not perfect circles and the vines and leaves of them spread over various rocks, ground and walls. The rings themselves are not placed in any particular special nicety either - as long as at least one flower is on the ground, some rings are formed almost entirely on a wall. Some rings form over or around rocks and stalactites, some have even been found to grow over a nest of Antragon Eggs! 
And their sizes are not entirely the same either. From a small ring of 3 to a large ring of 87 have been counted - though there are many 'rooms' in the shifting maze that have not yet been explored - if you trust Vaneesa's winking face. It has been recorded the Glassic Flowers will grow in rings, and those rings grow larger as the vine-stem of the flower grows and more of the flower parts apear. So yes, a Glassic flower is a ring of Glassic flowers (thus, a set made by ring of vine-stem, as opposed to a series of individual glassic flowers in a ring formation).  

What happens within the ring?

Closest thing to a punch up you will see with an elemental wisp. Sometimes watched by other elementals, sometimes performed by the 2 individuals alone, the only (non-humanoid) beings to seek out the insides of a ring within Realm-R are the multiplication and division wisps - and only if they are in a pair. Addition and Subtraction Elemental Wisps may sometimes watch the fights, but do not engage in them. 
Anyone else trying to take the Glassic Flowers (such as Apothecaries for materials) will need to engage in a fractional math question. Due t this, some recorders of Realm-R history have preposed that Multiplication and division Elemental Wisps are born from these Glassic Flower Rings and have made them a protected species - only those with the proper harvesting licenses (a license any apprentice apothecary has to achieve within their first 3 years of apprenticeship). Traveller's (Math Adventurers from Earth) may also apply for these licenses - they are often given material collection quests from Apothecaries after all. 
 
 
 

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