THE POWERS · THE VALE
The Sap-Drinkers
A heretic splinter of the Rootbound who broke off to drink the amber sap their wardens only hoard — a wild forest drug-cult that runs feral on the stuff, hooked, hungry, and half-rooted in the deep galleries.
Beneath the Hollowing Oak the deepest galleries weep an amber sap the Rootbound wake-keepers guard like a strongbox. The Sap-Drinkers were wake-keepers once, until they tapped the caches and drank. The sap is the whole cult: it floods you warm and lucid and then it owns you, and a body that keeps drinking goes feral and slow as the wood closes bark over its wrists. So they sit in the weeping chambers, hooked on the living wood, raiding the wardens' stores when their own veins run dry and dragging deeper into the galleries the more they drink. They trade in what the deep dirt gives up — the wardens' hoarded sap, old temple-bronze and relics they pry loose and barter to outside buyers for coin and more of the drug — and they will gut anyone who corners them off a cache. The wardens have walled their galleries off and won't call them dead, because they are plainly still down there, still talking, still drinking. It is the saddest racket in the Vale.
KIND
cell
PARENT POWER
The Rootbound
CREED
Drink deep, take what the wood is hoarding, and never come back up
RELIC STANCE
Sap, temple-bronze, and old relics are dig-it-up-and-sell-it loot — barter the lot to outside buyers for coin and more sap; keep nothing you can't drink or trade.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (9)
located_in
- →The Rootbound Hollow — They sit in the weeping sap-chambers of the deep warren, bark closing over their wrists.
rival_of
- →The Rootbound — Wake-keepers who drank the sap they were sworn to hoard; the wardens wall their galleries off and won't call them dead.
references
- →Verdigris Lung — They drink because the sap is the gentlest, saddest claim to a cure Verdigris Lung has — it quiets the cough and steadies the shakes, at the cost of rooting the drinker deeper into the wood with every dose.
- ←quest.the-weeping-galleries (unresolved) — The walled-in Sap-Drinkers are the quest's subject — heresy, cure, and warning at once.
- ←The Amber Sap — The Sap-Drinkers named themselves after the sap they drink — it is both their cure and their heresy.
created_by
- ←Draught of Stillsap — The Sap-Drinkers distill the stillsap from the deepest galleries; it is the heart of their heresy.
member_of
- ←The Weeping Boughs — The Weeping Boughs is the Sap-Drinkers' deepest outpost — the heresy's far end, where the most gone of them wait in the sap-amber galleries.
- ←Veth the Drinker — Veth drank first to silence her own Long Ring and stayed — she is the Sap-Drinkers' most accessible face.
descendant_of
- →The Rootbound — The Sap-Drinkers are a Rootbound heresy — they drank the sap the Rootbound only hoarded and called it a cure.
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