THE LORE · THE GREATWOOD
The Amber Sap
The crystallizing resin that seeps from the Rootbound Hollow's deepest galleries — hoarded by the wake-keepers as a sacred last-gift, drunk by the Sap-Drinkers to stay warm, lucid, and human a little longer.
The Rootbound say the sap is what the wood gives back when a warden roots: distilled living-time, the wood's own slow answer to the Sundering's wound. The Greenwake say it belongs to the hollow and the dead, not to the living, and hoard it accordingly. The Sap-Drinkers say both of those things are probably true and drink it anyway, because the alternative is rooting like the wardens do — going still, going slow, letting the bark close over you — and none of them are ready to become a tree yet. All three positions have their logic. The wood's position is that it keeps making the sap and has not commented.
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- ←The Deepening — The same commons fight in a second key — who the wood's slow gift belongs to, the living or the dead.
- →The Rootbound — The Rootbound hoard the amber sap as the wood's sacred last-gift from a rooting warden — the source of their reverence and the Sap-Drinkers' heresy.
- →The Sap-Drinkers — The Sap-Drinkers named themselves after the sap they drink — it is both their cure and their heresy.
- →The Greenwake Rite — The amber sap is the distilled product of the Greenwake Rite's final walk — the wood's gift returned in crystallized form.
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- →The Rootbound Hollow — The amber sap seeps from the Rootbound Hollow's deepest galleries — its source and the Greenwake's hoarded supply.
- →The Weeping Boughs — The Weeping Boughs are named for the sap — the amber sap pools in their chambers in greater quantity than anywhere else.
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