Saaktus Flower

Saaktus Flower
Flora
Official Name	Saaktus Flower
Common Name	Url Flower
Classification	Flower
Common Use	Utility
Origins	Jorrhildr
Habitat	Cold regions

Saaktus Flowers are unique plants that are ignored by Oorl Worms to the degree that carrying or wearing a salve of the plant is enough to prevent possible victims of the Url transformation from turning into the bovine Race. For this reason, they are loathed by many Jorrhildr-native Url, and have been a major trade good for the Velheim Ailor of Jorrhildr, who sell them to the Regalian Empire for a tidy profit. The plant allows the Empire to treat with Url relatively safely, and allows for monitors and observers of Oorl Worms involved in the creation of Url Legions for the Regalian Military to avoid the fate they watch happen to others.

History

Saaktus Flowers have an unknown history going back to perhaps before the Cataclysm. However, others assert that the plant is likely the result of some form of Essence mutation, perhaps the Exist. Some local Velheim also claim that Basjtur’s creations, the Url, caused jealousy in the other gods for their strength. In response, from the bones and flesh of an albino Oorl Worm, Handrin created the Saaktus Flower to forever help deny the Url transformation in those who wished it. Whatever the case, it is clear that the Saaktus Flower has been used by the local Velheim for at least two centuries, to do exactly as the myth discusses, to deny their ability to transform into Url. To the Url of Jorrhildr and the Horned Throng that has risen in recent years, the plant is the bane of their existence. Its ability to avoid the attention of the Oorl Worm means that, somehow, the Url rarely spot the flower either, easily overlooking it even when for other Races, its appearance is fairly obvious. Of course, if pointed out the Url can rapidly find and then crush the plant, but this strange camouflage ability has allowed the plant to survive countless Url coordinated efforts to destroy it. With the arrival of Regalian interests to the region, the plant was rapidly exported and utilized by explorers and those of the Regalian Empire seeking proper diplomacy with the Url. Today, the flower thrives in small, secreted away regions of Jorrhildr overseen by Regalian-aligned tenders who sell the plant at a high profit to the Regalian Military, who eagerly create their Url Legions for military service. However, the plant is also scattered across the icy wilds of Jorrhildr, often going overlooked by the one Race who despises it.

Appearance

Saaktus Flowers are strange plants, being perhaps the only flowers in Aloria to be literally rooted into the ground with almost no height whatsoever. Their root system is vigorous though, based around a central, hardy and thick-surfaced root up to two feet long known as the pseudo-stem. From here, the flower then blooms right at the surface, with an array of large obcordate leaves emerging from just beneath the flower’s blossom. The blossom itself is about six inches in diameter, and when closed about one to two inches in height. The blossom is also built by two layers, an outer layer of pointed and thick outer petals and a series of delicate, softer petals around the plant’s key organs. During snowstorms, other harsh weather and a lack of sunlight, the flower closes up to protect this softer interior. The flower is colored from and specks of yellow on the inside to pale pink lined with white on the outside, occasionally taking over the white lining entirely for a more obvious coloration.

Uses and Abilities

Saaktus Flowers only have one real use by the wider world: their use as Oorl Worm protector. Somehow, the creature is unable to sense anyone with the Flower on them either in its raw form, or in the more convenient salve that alchemists created with advice from Jorrhildr-local Velheim Ailor. Its use as a decorative object, so common with other flowers, is often seen as a waste and very difficult to accomplish. Saaktus Flowers drain square meters around them of all other plants to ensure their total survival, and their relative rarity even in their homeland means that all of them are used for Url infection prevention.

Trivia

• Saaktus Flowers also tend to go unseen by Url due to their high likelihood of being buried in snow but also in being naturally camouflaged, as simple white bumps on the ground.

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Writers HydraLana Processors FireFan96, TheBioverse	Last Editor HydraLana on 10/25/2021.

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