The Everbloom

Everbloom
"We call upon the Everbloom, who reaches upwards / who drinks the Glory / who is all you desire."
Origin	From-Stone
Titles	A Verdant Elysium, The Brightseeker, Eden's Tower
Names	[FNORD]
Aspects
Date of arrival	It has always been there. But it only rose after the Spirarch's disappearance.
Owner(s)	Designated Continuity Man

The Everbloom, also known as Verdant Elysium, Brightseeker, and Eden's Tower, is yet another Neph hour, this time a Lantern-Grail.

It is the paradise in the back of your mind. Somewhere you can forget all your worries. A place for you. It is all you desire.

Description

History

When the Spirarch retreated into the Glory, below it was a little carnelian rose.

Forever growing in the shadows, it saw the Glory for the first time.

And all it wanted, was more.

The Everbloom has always been there. It was a fantasy, in the minds of men. A dream. An ideal.

Somewhere to forget all your worries. Somewhere where all your whims and needs are fulfilled. Somewhere to indulge in the world's greatest pleasures with no consequences whatsoever.

So it grew, and grew, and reached upwards until it could rise no more. From its blooms emerged beautiful, butterfly-winged nymphs who tended to its leaves and flowers. Its thorns became stairsteps. From its roses poured rivers of gilded Glory-nectar. And its roots became a paradise.

It is all you desire.

It wants you, as much as you want it.

Enter it, and be no longer.

Appearance

The Everbloom is a gigantic paradise on top of the Mansus, manifesting as a massive rose plant with wide-spanning roots and yellow, orange and white flowers. It forms rivers of glory-nectar and is home to many mortals in an eternal haze of pleasure and enlightenment.

Principles

Endless reward. Infinite pleasure. An eternal rest from the stresses of life. A perfect place.

Worship

Cult

The Everbloom has been revered, indirectly, since the beginning of time, under many different names. Valhalla. Eden. Elysium.

Organised cults have only now began to form under it - the most prominent being the Gilded Rose Society, an order which promises access to the ultimate eternal rest.

Mark

1. Temptation: Paradise: I've dreamed my whole life of a place where all my work will be rewarded. Can such a paradise truly exist?
2. Dedication: Paradise: I have decided to dedicate myself to the pursuit of the Everbloom.
3. Ascension: Elysium: The Third Mark manifests as a resolution in my mind. The buds of my enlightenment begin to grow, slowly.
4. Ascension: Elysium: The Fourth Mark is the exhaustion, the weight in my legs, the bags under my eyes. Everything is effort. I am too tired to work anymore.
5. Ascension: Elysium: The Fifth Mark is the changes in my body. I carry the Brightseeker's roses growing on my skin, and i can feel something sprouting from my spine..
6. Ascension: Elysium: I am almost complete. My arms are covered in flowers. My eyes are full of light. My wings are almost grown. This is the Sixth Mark.
7. IN RADIANCE: Today i climbed the 7777 steps of the Thorn-Stair, passing the Gilded Library and the Lovefly-homes. I flew into the fires of the Glory, and returned alive, and new. My vigor has returned to me, yet, the only thing in my mind now is satisfaction.

I will never leave again.

Servants

Loveflies

Lovefly

A small fairy-spirit, with tough root-skin and delicate butterfly-wings. They tend to the leaves of the Everbloom, but this one serves you now.

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Summon one of the lesser guardians of the Verdant Elysium?

With the right combination of Grail, Knock and Lantern, i could attract a Lovefly into the Wake with light and pleasure.

The Lovefly's hypnotic aura would have lured me into the summoning circle, if i didn't know better. But i do.

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Summon one of the Name-emanations of the Everbloom

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Locations

The Mansus

The Everbloom is an Hour, but it is also a place. Within it, there are many sections...

The Gilded Library

A paradise of knowledge, stretching from the inside of the Brightseeker's stem, lit by Glory-rays.

The Lovefly-Homes

On the upper bounds of the Everbloom there is a cozy town where the Loveflies live. They are known to be friendly to outsiders.

The Roots

The Roots, also known as Lower Elysium, are the place of Long within the Everbloom. Drinks are constantly served, rivers of Glory-nectar run through the rough land, and the friendly Loveflies grant massages and other pleasures to any who seek them. It is a land of indulgence unending.

The Plateau

At the upper end of the Everbloom is a platform, a final, giant topaz rose. From here, aspiring Long stretch their wings and fly into the fire, seeking to be reborn anew. The light is blinding, but so is their resolve.

The Histories

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Items

Tools

• Everthorn
  • Aspects: 4 4

Ingredients

• Glory-nectar
  • Aspects: 12

Influences

• An Awareness of Desire
  • Aspect: 8

Books

• A Respite
  • Description: In which Azra Natharn describes, in vivid detail, his experiences at a strange supernatural paradise.
  • Start Text: The descriptions are graphic, and so are the pictures - It is difficult to read, without blushing.
  • End Text: "I drank the Glory's light from a nymph's breast, and allowed my gaze to wander to the hypnotic beauty of the forest before me..."
  • Gives: Fascination, Grail 4 lore, gives Temptation: Paradise if there is no Desire on the board.

Rites

• FNORD
  • Description: FNORD
  • Requires: FNORD
  • Gives: FNORD

Secrets

• The Everbloom has always been here, in the form of an idea, and a single flower. What has it seen?