Scriptavena osphoros : Bonequill
🔬 Scientific Name: Scriptavena osphoros
🖋️ Common Name: “Bonequill” or “Marrow Scribe”
🌱 Classification:
• Kingdom: Plantae
• Order: Cucurbitales
• Family: Intramedullaceae
• Genus: Scriptavena
• Species: osphoros
🧬 Morphology:
• Stem: Hollow, fibrous stalks with lumenal marrow channels. Exterior surface displays rows of fine dermal spines shaped like quills or styluses.
• Leaves: None externally. Internal lamellae fan outward only once the stem breaches host bone.
• Inflorescence: Inverted, marrow-facing bloom — blooms inward, directly into the host’s medullary cavity. Flower structures are sharp, filamentous, and form radial inscriptions upon contact.
• Roots: Endosteal tendrils. They grow only within the cancellous architecture of long bones, particularly humerus, femur, and iliac crest.
🦴 Osteofusion:
• Seed or graft is introduced via microfracture into exposed bone.
• Root system spreads internally and fuses with the inner trabecular wall.
• Over time, the plant etches growing glyphs onto the internal cortical surface of the host bone — readable only postmortem.
🧠 Traits:
• Inscription Reflex: Glyphs are formed based on ambient speech, justification attempts, or withheld names.
• Fossil Memory: Upon death of the host, all growth calcifies instantly, preserving the full record in bone-etched bloom rings.
• Absence Response: If host is not named within 72 hours of planting, glyphs form in unreadable, recursive spirals.
📍 Habitat:
• Artificially introduced only — grown in ritual containment cylinders, funeral bones, or scribe-host archives.
• Occasionally self-germinates in stacked bone reliquaries with high memory concentration.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
• [G6-E] – Contained use only. Recordings may persist across cycles. Not permitted for diplomatic hosts.
📝 Notes:
• “There was no scar. But the bone remembered.”
• “Her femur contained five names. One wasn’t hers.”
• “Postmortem bloom produced 312 distinct glyphs. The humerus sang.”