Scroll of Rooted Breath

Foundational Text of the Mycelian Way

Etched not on paper, but into the bark of the oldest fungal pillar at the centre of the Garden of Wind-Echo, this scroll is cultivated and rewritten each cycle by elder calligraphers and root-poets. It serves as a moral compass, a guide to ritual conduct, and a philosophical meditation on existence and impermanence.

Sections of the Scroll

Breath Knows First

Of Rot and Bloom

Five Spirals of Respect

On the Singing of Truth

Root Does Not Ask To Be Seen

• A poem-like section reinforcing humility, collective identity, and the dangers of glory.
• Often recited by young Mycelians entering Bloommind for the first time.

Living Nature of the Scroll

Each year, a portion of the bark fades. New spores bloom over it, and the fresh root-text is inscribed based on Consensus Sporing rituals. No single Mycelian can recite the entire scroll—it’s grown to be incomplete on purpose, symbolizing the virtue of not knowing all things.

It’s forbidden to transcribe it fully in Velari tongue. Sporescript renderings are allowed only within Orraspire’s eastern grove vault.

Excerpt: Of Rot and Bloom

"What once stood must soften.
The proud pillar falls, not in shame—but in offering.
Let the spores feast upon it.
Let the roots remember its weight.
Only through decay do we hear the soil’s yearning.
Rot, so that bloom may know direction.
Bloom, so that rot may find purpose."

This passage is often sung quietly during the planting of memory fungus atop ruined structures or during the ceremonial dismantling of obsolete glyph towers. The Glowroot Choir sometimes embeds its rhythm into sporesong rituals, allowing decay and rebirth to harmonize across cycles.