Tibivault sanctum : The Leg of Grace
🔬 Scientific Name: Tibivault sanctum
🦵 Common Name: “The Leg of Grace” or “Vaultstalk”
🌱 Classification:
• Kingdom: Plantae
• Order: Fabales
• Family: Ossiverticaceae
• Genus: Tibivault
• Species: sanctum
🧬 Morphology:
• Central Stalk: Grows as a reinforced, upright tibia-analog with sculpted condyles and marrow-line texture. The shaft bears vertical glyph scars along its anterior crest.
• Leaves: Triangular flags of bone-lamella membrane, hung in downward pairs from subtuberous nodes. Each one hums softly in crosswind, producing chordal tones aligned to justification strata.
• Inflorescence: Blossoms only upon external fracture — a violent radial emergence from the metaphyseal crown, forming an orb of marrow-spined fronds and jagged osseous tongues.
• Roots: Deep-anchored fibrous masses that mimic lower-leg musculature, some visibly twitching. Extend up through decayed femurs or fractured femoral sockets in site-bound growth.
🦴 Osteofusion:
• Fuses with damaged or amputated tibiae — commonly post-conflict or during ossuary rites.
• Fusion mass wraps completely around host bone with calcified spiral threads.
• Post-fusion, the plant imparts minor structural realignment: fused bones are straighter, but more brittle.
🧠 Traits:
• Fracture-Bloom Response: No flowering occurs without trauma; cracking the host bone triggers violent instantaneous bloom.
• Glyph-Vault Core: Inner bloom chamber stores mnemonic ossicaps containing preserved justifications — sorted by tension and truth-density.
• Sentient Recall: Bloom may partially restore nearby broken memories when placed adjacent to fused skull flora.
📍 Habitat:
• Found in ossuary halls, abandoned chapels of healing, and execution walls.
• Cultivated as mnemonic reliquaries by the Bone Ring Choir.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
• [G7-V] – Fracture-triggered glyph detonation possible. Use only in sanctified alignment zones.
• Unauthorized harvest may result in memory loop incarceration.
📝 Notes:
• “It didn’t just grow in the leg. It stood like it remembered standing before.”
• “The bloom happened the moment the femur cracked beside it.”
• “I think it records our posture. Not physically — spiritually.”