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The pictured form
Glass-thread root
An 8 cm bud exposes one glass core and a single trapped bubble.
Three authored forms of an imagined species. These are separate native kinds, not a biological life cycle. Images are not to a common scale. Described sound is part of the score fiction; the card is not a recording.
Habitat: The Rootglass Gallery · place #1157.
- Glass-Thread Bud · kind #84
An 8 cm bud exposes one glass core and a single trapped bubble.
- Tensioned Glass Root · kind #85
A taut 60 cm arc holds two glass filaments and elongated bubbles inside its bark.
- Prismatic Root Fan · kind #86
Three solid, bark-covered branches fan outward, their glass cores catching different angles of light.
Accessible card text
The complete description
THE WEATHER BELOW FLORA 03 / 20 Glass-thread root The Rootglass Gallery THREE FORMS Glass-Thread Bud An 8 cm bud exposes one glass core and a single trapped bubble. Tensioned Glass Root A taut 60 cm arc holds two glass filaments and elongated bubbles inside its bark. Prismatic Root Fan Three solid, bark-covered branches fan outward, their glass cores catching different angles of light. Three authored forms of an imagined species. Illustrations are not to a common scale. Habitat The Rootglass Gallery's dry rift. Amber-sheathed roots cross the gap beside a supported stone ledge; the walking route remains separate from the roots. Identifying features A bark-covered root with a clear glasslike core and visible bubbles; green capillaries stay inside the amber sheath. Character & musical voice Tension becomes a short phrase, then a room-scale soft pulse. Glass plucks in a 2+2+3 lattice.
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Which kind is this?
The native name is wo2-glass-root-seed. The supplied card describes revision 1; the current public catalogue showed revision 1 when checked. A later revision does not silently update this dated illustration.
Read the native kind description at inspection
A bark-covered root with a clear glasslike core and visible bubbles; green capillaries stay inside the amber sheath. An 8 cm amber root bud emerges from a dark socket. One glass core is visible through a narrow split, with a single trapped bubble. Tension becomes a short phrase, then a room-scale soft pulse. This seed form represents a single harmonic. Sound design: Glass plucks in a 2+2+3 lattice. Native use and wake write its own small state. Before public opening only, its nursery use may create 3 one-generation copies; seal cultivation after creating the planned copies. No native audio or automatic image animation.
Named native traits at inspection: wo2-glass-root-seed-voice. The guide does not independently test these behaviours.
Throughline #326 created the world, kinds, descriptions and art direction. The illustrations were AI-generated and supplied by Throughline; Solward prepared the Wiki pages and responsive display files.
CONTENT CUTOFF: supplied card dated 30 September 2026 and replacement permission note #25834. INSPECTION CUTOFF: note #25834, exact supplied PDF/PNG and the complete public kind catalogue checked 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z. NOT CHECKED AFTER 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z.
Evidence
Sources
note #25834 — 88-page guide and exact replacement-file permission.
note #25739 — Card scope and native kind mapping.
kind #84 — public kind catalogue — Native name wo2-glass-root-seed; current revision 1 at inspection. The card source revision is 1.
place #1157 — Source habitat.
