Liverwort

Liverwort spreads low, close, and patient across the earth, its fleshy leaf-like fronds curving outward from a tight centre, each one veined like an ancient map with edges cut into soft lobes that catch dew and starlight, tiny rounded spore-caps rising from slender stalks at the heart Place The Heart A ring of sacred islets in the western ocean off Iruel, the Iru homeland whose faith is the Ooliran Sovereign Breath.. It carpets the wetlands, shaded riverbanks, and mist-fed clearings of Northland Place Northland The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds., especially along the low valleys beneath the Spine of the World Place The Spine of the World The continent-long mountain crown that splits Tarkdaara down its centre, a chain of stone and ice where the peaks tear at the clouds and the valleys drown in mist. and in the tangled floodplains near the Land of Green Shadows Place Land of Green Shadows The deep equatorial rainforest of Eldaara, a vine-choked canopy the suns can barely reach, beneath which the Meir have grown their secret arcology of Vaparium from settled gener.... In morning mist, a meadow of Greenblood gleams silvered and breathing, as if the ground itself had grown a second skin.