Ember Flower

Flowers of impossible beauty, their petals shifting like living flames — orange bleeding to white, white flickering to gold. They grow where volcanic heat meets mountain ice. Their radiant heat cleanses corrupted air.

Ino named the first one she found, nestled in a crack of volcanic rock, its golden light throbbing gently with wisps of actual fire curling upward. Placed at the ventilation points of Mesarthim's mine shafts, they cleared the Smokebloom spores from the tunnels.

An Ash-Hawk led Rae and Helle to a cluster of Ember Flowers high on the mountainside during the Mesarthim crisis. The flowers were transplanted to the mine ventilation points, where their purifying warmth cleansed the corrupted air over several days. They continue to grow there, tended by Ino's apprentices.

Significance

• Ino named the first one found on Arietis
• An Ash-Hawk led Rae and Helle to a cluster during the crisis
• Placed at mine ventilation points to cleanse corrupted Smokebloom air
• Continue to grow at Mesarthim, tended by Ino's apprentices