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"Where the lichen glows, the memory holds." -- A miners' saying of the Memoir Mines

LanternLichen grows along the walls of The Memoir Mines, and glows only where a memory is still whole. Where a memory has begun to fray, the lichen dims. Where a memory has been lost, there is no lichen at all.

At a Glance


Core Thread	Memory
Found	The Memoir Mines
Known for	Glowing wherever a memory is still whole

Appearance

LanternLichen grows in soft, scattered clusters of glowing French knots, following the glittering veins of remembered faces down into the dark. It glows a warm, steady gold.

Lighting the Way

The lanterns of the Mines burn low these days, and many travellers find their way by LanternLichen alone. The MemoryMoths keep to the dark stretches where the lichen has gone out, which makes a long, unlit tunnel the one place every sensible traveller avoids.

Some say LanternLichen is a distant cousin of LanternLace, the lost flower of the Lucent Lakes, and that its spores drifted down into the Mines long ago, carried on a memory of the LoomLight Festival.

LanternLichen and the Void

Telling a story aloud in a tunnel makes the lichen around the teller brighten, a small, local reversal of the kind the Observists have recorded wherever stories are shared. A tunnel full of voices is a tunnel full of light.

Gameplay Notes

Light and guidance. LanternLichen is a natural light source and path guide in the Memoir Mines.
Warning. Dark patches warn of MemoryMoths.
Relighting. Telling stories can relight a tunnel to open the way.

Connections

The Memoir Mines - the tunnels it lights
MemoryMoths - who keep to the dark where it has gone out
LanternLace - its lost cousin, some say
Once - FirstSpun, Keeper of Memory
The World of Threadbare - the lore, landscape and denizens of Threadbare