# Menagerie Gardens ## Category Garden / Public Attraction / [[White Flower - Blight Bloom|Blight Bloom]] Site ## Known Facts - The Menagerie Gardens are near [[Crownshold]]. - The gardens are a grand attraction with hedges, rose bushes, ivy arches, and tourists. - A white fall in the gardens was not snow, but spores. - The spores came from a low cave-like opening in a restricted section near the base of the [[Crownshold|Crownhold]] wall. - [[Bram Bentley]], Royal Gardener of [[Solland]], spoke with [[Mealla Glynn|Mealla]] and the party there. - Gardeners and Crownsguard who entered the cave did not return. - Fire briefly worked against the rot, but the growth returned. - Twisted red-speckled vines were creeping up the [[Crownshold|Crownhold]] stonework. - A pristine white flower was found beside corrupted roots. - The flower shimmered with faint blue-purple dew. - Wherever the flower grew, the red-speckled vines withered back and died. - [[The Blight]] recoiled from the flower. - Ryla said this was the only known place in all afflicted areas where such a flower had appeared. - Mealla’s bees were immediately and intensely drawn to the flower. - Bees could safely land on the flower and collect from it. - A bee that landed on nearby red-tinged rot-vine shrivelled and died instantly. - [[Mealla Glynn|Mealla]] felt that death through the swarm. - [[Mealla Glynn|Mealla]] heard the voice of the rot near the cave. - Elarisian diplomats showed interest in the discovery. ## Connected To - [[Mealla Glynn|Mealla]] - Ryla - [[Bram Bentley]] - [[The Blight]] - White flower / [[White Flower - Blight Bloom|Blight Bloom]] - [[Crownshold]] - [[Bastion]] - Elarisian diplomats - Crownsguard - [[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/07 - Characters/07b - Antagonists and Unknown Alignment/Boristov Sokah|Boristov Sokah]] - [[Solland]] authorities ## Open Questions - What is the white flower? - Is “[[White Flower - Blight Bloom|Blight Bloom]]” its true name, or only a working name? - Why does it repel or kill the rot? - Why did it appear beneath [[Crownshold]]? - Can it be moved or grown elsewhere? - Why are Mealla’s bees drawn to it? - Is the flower connected to [[Mealla Glynn|Mealla]]? - Is [[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/05 - Nations & Regions/Elaris]] trying to claim or control it? - What is inside the cave? - What happened to the missing gardeners and Crownsguard? ## Sessions 49-53 Updates - The flower was identified as the [[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/09 - Items, Artifacts & Documents/Rose of Igoda]]. - It disappeared during the night before Session 52. - Without the Rose, the rot surged through cracks, walls and earth. - Mages and alchemists began using repeated fire and explosive magic to contain it. - [[Bram Bentley]] stated that this approach could not hold forever. - [[Ryla Vein]] left to confront or follow [[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/07 - Characters/07b - Antagonists and Unknown Alignment/Boristov Sokah|Boristov Sokah]].