Liverwort

Liverwort spreads low, close, and patient across the earth, its fleshy leaf-like fronds curving outward from a tight centre, each one veined like an ancient map with edges cut into soft lobes that catch dew and starlight, tiny rounded spore-caps rising from slender stalks at the heart. It carpets the wetlands, shaded riverbanks, and mist-fed clearings of Northland, especially along the low valleys beneath the Spine of the World Place The Spine of the World The continent-long mountain crown that splits Tarkdaara down its centre, a chain of stone and ice where the peaks tear at the clouds and the valleys drown in mist. and in the tangled floodplains near the Land of Green Shadows. In morning mist, a meadow of Greenblood gleams silvered and breathing, as if the ground itself had grown a second skin.