Spiral Hollows of Orraspire

“Completion is forgetting. We must always remember.”

Nestled in the half-woken rootlands just east of Orraspire’s central ritual quarter stands an unfinished structure known as the Spiral Hollows—a towering sanctuary intended as the first multispecies archive of unresolved memories. Commissioned forty cycles ago during the uneasy truce between the Velari and Mycelian delegates, its creation marked a fragile attempt at shared truthkeeping: one not bound to completion, but to ongoing resonance.

Purpose & Philosophy

• The Spiral Hollows were designed to remain unfinished. Construction halts and resumes depending on resonance cycles—periods where ancestral memory glyphs “awaken” or fade.
• The building’s spiraling stone-shell rises in irregular waves, each level echoing a fractured story etched in saltglass, left open-ended by design.
• Architects are not builders alone; they are called Splicers, selected based on their ability to recognise and transmute unresolved conflict into aharmonic form.

Layout & Ritual Use

• Central shaft contains Memory Vents, where those in mourning may release echo-breaths into the archive walls. The vents alter the scent and tone of the surrounding chamber in response.
• Side wings accommodate Spoilborne Reflection Pools, unused and silently protested by more militant Velari sects.
• Upper levels host ongoing Tattoo Dissonance Studies, focusing on glyphs that refuse to harmonize with caste rituals—believed to be spirit-bound anomalies.

Political & Cultural Friction

• The Hollows face resistance from purist archivists who claim memory should be resolved before being enshrined. Others argue that its unfinished nature honours the Velari truth: legacy is an echo, not a monument.
• Recent attempts to use the Hollows for caste trial appeals were rejected, though rumours swirl that the Embermarked Voices might bring it back into ritual rotation.