Control and manipulation of plant life, encompassing growth acceleration, agricultural optimization, disease resistance, and botanical architecture. Floramancy practitioners are the farmers and ecological engineers of the Weave, working at the cellular and molecular level to cultivate, shape, and preserve the green world.

Floramancy resonates with the botanical patterns within the Weave—the quantum signatures of chlorophyll, cellulose structures, and photosynthetic processes. Practitioners perceive plants as living networks, growth algorithms that can be optimized and directed.

Floramancy was among the first disciplines rediscovered, alongside Corpus and Infomancy. After the collapse, survival depended on agriculture—wild thread carriers who could sense plant life through the Weave naturally developed cultivation techniques.

Why Floramancy Came Early

Food security was paramount:

• Stored food supplies ran out quickly
• Agricultural knowledge was critical
• Thread carriers naturally sensed plant health
• Success meant survival; failure meant starvation
• Observable results (crops grew or died)

Cultural Significance

Floramancy practitioners are called "Greenwardens", "Seedkeepers", or "Harvestmasters" depending on regional culture and specialization.

Traditional sayings:

• "Life grows in spirals; master the pattern, master the harvest."
• "Threads flow where water flows."
• "A patient Weaver reaps a hundred years."
• "Roots remember; leaves forget."

The Greenwarden Philosophy: Practitioners view themselves as partners with the green world, not masters. The best work happens when the Weaver listens to what the plant wants to become and helps it achieve that potential, rather than imposing unnatural forms.

• Thread Color: Living green or chlorophyll gold (emerald to amber spectrum, shifts with plant health)
• Glyph Patterns: Root networks, spiral phyllotaxis, branching fractals, leaf venation
• Manifestation: Green-gold threads weaving through soil/stems, bioluminescent growth trails, blooming halos
• Emblem Style: Spiral growth pattern emerging from root network, overlaid with quantum field lines

• Accelerated Growth: Speeding crop maturation, forest regeneration, ecosystem recovery
• Disease Resistance: Strengthening plant immune systems, eliminating fungal/bacterial infections
• Yield Enhancement: Increasing fruit/grain production, improving nutritional content
• Living Architecture: Shaping wood/vines into structures, furniture, tools
• Seed Preservation: Maintaining viability, controlled dormancy, germination triggers
• Grafting & Hybridization: Cross-species techniques, selective trait expression
• Herbal Potency: Enhancing medicinal plant compounds
• Toxin Control: Neutralizing or concentrating plant toxins

Floramancy practitioners manipulate quantum coherence effects in photosynthesis—one of the few macroscopic quantum phenomena proven in modern science. Threads create plasmonic cavities that couple with chloroplasts, enhancing light-harvesting efficiency and directing energy transfer.

They manipulate quantum tunneling in plant enzymes, control cellulose polymerization at molecular level, and tap into mycorrhizal networks' quantum information transfer. Growth acceleration works by biasing quantum probabilities in cell division and elongation processes.

Function: Reads biological state of a plant within arm's reach, revealing health, disease, pest infestation, water/nutrient deficiencies, growth stage, and reproductive status.

Duration: Temporary (sustained concentration, typically 10-20 seconds)

Thread Cost: Low (4-6% of reserves for standard scan)

Applications:

• Pre-cultivation assessment (soil quality, companion planting)
• Disease detection (fungal, bacterial, viral infections)
• Pest identification (root borers, sap feeders, leaf miners)
• Harvest timing (fruit ripeness, seed maturity)

Function: Awakens dormant seeds and triggers germination process, causing sprouts to emerge within minutes to hours. Bypasses natural dormancy requirements.

Duration: Instantaneous trigger, permanent effect (seed commits to germination)

Thread Cost: Low (3-5% per seed, or 10-15% for handful)

Applications:

• Rapid crop establishment (emergency food production)
• Controlled germination timing (avoiding frost, optimizing season)
• Botanical research (testing seed viability quickly)
• Restoration ecology (jump-starting native plant recovery)

Function: Speeds plant growth rate by 2-5x normal for sustained period (several hours to days). Affects all growth processes—cell division, elongation, leaf production, flowering, fruiting.

Duration: Temporary boost (effect fades as threads deplete)

Thread Cost: Moderate-High (15-25% reserves for small plant over several hours)

Applications:

• Emergency food production (mature crops in days instead of months)
• Forest restoration (decades of growth in years)
• Living architecture (shape-grown structures in reasonable timeframe)
• Famine relief (rapid calorie production)

Limitations: Requires adequate resources. Extended acceleration creates structurally inferior wood/stems. Risk of premature aging.

Function: Strengthens plant's immune response against diseases and increases resistance to environmental stressors. Can cure existing infections if caught early, or prevent infection entirely.

Duration: Temporary resistance (several days to weeks) unless infection is fully eliminated

Thread Cost: Moderate (12-18% for single plant, 30-40% for small garden)

Applications:

• Crop disease prevention (blight, mildew, rust)
• Orchard protection (fungal infections, cankers)
• Post-transplant stress reduction
• Organic farming (reducing chemical pesticide need)

Function: Guides growth direction and form of living wood, vines, or flexible stems. Creates functional structures—chairs, ladders, archways, living fences. Slow process requiring repeated sessions over weeks/months.

Duration: Permanent structural change (growth follows directed pattern)

Thread Cost: Moderate per session (10-15%), requires many sessions over time

Applications:

• Living architecture (grown furniture, structures, bridges)
• Agricultural support (trellises, stakes, arbors)
• Artistic expression (botanical sculpture)
• Infrastructure (living erosion control, windbreaks)

Function: Places seeds or plant cuttings in quantum stasis, halting all biological processes indefinitely. Seeds remain viable for years/decades beyond natural lifespan.

Duration: Permanent stasis until deliberately released

Thread Cost: Low-Moderate (8-12% per seed; can batch process)

Applications:

• Seed banking (preserving rare/endangered species)
• Agricultural insurance (backup seed stocks)
• Long-distance transport (seeds remain viable during journeys)
• Cultural preservation (maintaining heirloom varieties)

Ethical Note: Greenwardens maintain vast seed vaults using this technique, considering it sacred duty.

Function: Joins cut plant tissues from same or closely related species, creating permanent living connection. Used for propagation, repair, or hybridization.

Duration: Permanent fusion (tissues heal together as single organism)

Thread Cost: Moderate (10-15% per graft junction)

Applications:

• Fruit tree propagation (superior varieties on hardy rootstock)
• Dwarf tree creation (controlling size via rootstock)
• Disease resistance (combining resistant rootstock with productive scion)
• Repair (reattaching broken branches)

Function: Repairs damaged or degraded ecosystems by simultaneously healing soil, reactivating dormant seed banks, establishing mycorrhizal networks, and guiding successive plant community development. Transforms barren/polluted land into thriving habitat over weeks to months. Affects area up to ~1 hectare.

Duration: Permanent ecological transformation (requires monitoring during first year)

Thread Cost: Severe (60-80% of total reserves for ~1 hectare)

Casting Time: 15-20 minutes of sustained concentration

Applications:

• Post-collapse restoration (recovering damaged land)
• Agricultural recovery (rehabilitating exhausted farmland)
• Disaster response (repairing wildfire damage, landslide zones)
• Conservation (recreating habitat for endangered species)

Cultural Significance: Successfully performing Ecosystem-Renewal marks transition from practitioner to master.

Function: Combines genetic traits from two different plant species to create hybrid offspring with desired characteristics from both parents.

Duration: Permanent genetic modification (hybrid viable for several generations)

Thread Cost: Moderate-High (20-35% reserves per successful hybridization)

Applications:

• Agricultural improvement (disease-resistant crops, climate-adapted varieties)
• Horticultural novelty (new flower colors, forms, fragrances)
• Conservation (rescuing endangered species by crossing with hardy relatives)

Famous Hybrids: Titan Wheat (wheat-rye cross), Crimson Rose (rose-peony hybrid), Ironbark Oak (oak-hickory cross).

Function: Maximizes crop yield, size, nutritional content, and flavor quality across entire field simultaneously. Brings out "best possible version" of existing species. Affects area up to ~2 hectares.

Duration: One growing season

Thread Cost: Moderate-High (25-40% reserves for ~2 hectares)

Results: 40-80% increase in yield, 20-50% larger fruits, 15-30% higher nutrition, noticeably enhanced flavor.

Economic Impact: Amplify is primary economic driver for Weaver farmers. Communities with Greenwarden access have 50-70% higher agricultural output.

Function: Uses plants as living filters to extract toxins, heavy metals, and contaminants from polluted soil. Hyperaccumulator plants concentrate pollutants in harvestable biomass. Transforms toxic wasteland into safe agricultural land over 1-3 growing seasons.

Duration: One growing season per casting (multiple seasons often needed)

Thread Cost: High (30-45% reserves for ~0.5 hectare treatment)

Applications:

• Post-collapse cleanup (war zones, industrial ruins)
• Mining site rehabilitation
• Agricultural land restoration (pesticide contamination)
• Disaster response (chemical spills, radiation events)

Function: Grows complex wooden structures (buildings, bridges, furniture, tools) from living trees in single integrated casting. Structure emerges as unified organism with self-healing properties, continues growing/adapting over time.

Duration: Structure grows during 4-8 hour casting, continues maturing over weeks-months

Thread Cost: Severe (50-70% reserves for medium structure)

Applications:

• Residential (living homes)
• Infrastructure (bridges, walkways, towers)
• Furniture (chairs, tables grown in single piece)
• Artistic (sculptural architecture, living arbors)

Famous Structures: The Elderroot Council Hall (300-year-old oak parliament), Willowspan Bridge (80-year-old river crossing).

Function: Establishes conscious communication with plants via mycorrhizal networks (underground fungal webs). Enables Weaver to "hear" plant sensations, exchange information, request cooperation.

Duration: Active connection sustained during casting (minutes to hours)

Thread Cost: Low-Moderate (10-25% reserves; mentally exhausting)

Applications:

• Agricultural management (diagnosing crop problems)
• Forest stewardship (monitoring ecosystem health)
• Search and rescue (asking forest for information)
• Spiritual practice (communion with nature)

Cultural Practice: Many Greenwarden traditions require successful Network casting as coming-of-age rite.

Function: Guides plant population to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions through selective epigenetic modification. Transforms vulnerable species into climate-resilient populations over 2-5 generations.

Duration: Effects persist across generations, becoming permanent traits

Thread Cost: High (35-50% reserves for population of ~500-1000 plants)

Applications:

• Climate change resilience (preparing crops for warming temperatures)
• Agricultural adaptation (drought-resistant food crops, salt-tolerant rice)
• Conservation (helping endangered species survive habitat changes)

Success Stories: Drought-Hardy Wheat (thrives on 40% less water), Salt-Tolerant Rice (survives brackish conditions), Fire-Resistant Conifers (adapted to severe wildfires).

Function: Repairs damaged ecosystems at landscape scale—reforesting clear-cuts, restoring topsoil, reintroducing extinct plant species, healing polluted lands. Can restore ecological balance to areas devastated by fire, war, pollution, or CWZ corruption.

Duration: Permanent ecological transformation (requires monitoring during first year)

Thread Cost: Extreme (70-90%, scales with area and damage severity, requires days/weeks of sustained effort)

Applications:

• Post-war restoration and CWZ rehabilitation (Class 1-2)
• Clear-cut reforestation and pollution remediation
• Desertification reversal and disaster recovery
• Ecological archaeology (recreating lost ecosystems)

Scale & Duration:

• Small (1-10 hectares): Weeks of work, 70% thread reserves
• Medium (10-100 hectares): Months of work, requires team of practitioners
• Large (100+ hectares): Years of work, rotating teams, community effort
• Regional (thousands of hectares): Generational project, entire Greenwardens chapters

Ecological Succession: Cannot force instant mature forest—must work with natural succession (grass → shrubs → young trees → mature forest). Accelerating too fast creates unstable ecosystems that collapse.

Historical Connection: Post-collapse survival depended on Floramancy restoration work. Early practitioners rebuilt agricultural capacity, preventing mass starvation. Greenwardens Guild formed around this mission.

Integration with Elderroot's Mission: The Elderroot (ancient Thinking Oak) directs Greenwardens' restoration efforts, identifying priority areas through root network sensing. Thera Moss coordinates large-scale restorations based on Elderroot's guidance.

Limitation: Cannot restore extinct species (unless viable seeds exist), time-intensive (years to decades), requires team coordination for large areas, some damage irreversible (CWZ Class 3+ sterilizes soil permanently), thread-expensive, must work with natural succession (cannot rush).

Function: Establishes direct consciousness link with plants—experiencing their slow awareness, accessing root network communication, perceiving through distributed botanical intelligence. Allows communion with Thinking Oaks (like The Elderroot), understanding plant desires, or coordinating ecosystem responses.

Duration: Temporary (sustained connection during casting)

Thread Cost: Moderate-High (40-60%, sustained connection)

What Plants Experience:

• Awareness without thought: Sensing light, water, nutrients, danger—but not conceptually
• Time differently: Plant consciousness operates on seasonal scales (hours feel like seconds to them)
• Distributed intelligence: Mycorrhizal networks create collective awareness (forest as single mind)
• Chemical communication: "Speaking" through volatile compounds, root exudates
• Memory without neurons: Storing seasonal patterns, threat responses, symbiont recognition

Thinking Oaks Communion: Ancient oaks (800+ years) develop genuine consciousness—slow, deep, wise. The Elderroot communes with Greenwardens, providing ecological guidance, warning of dangers, teaching botanical lore. Conversation with Elderroot feels like listening to mountains think.

Psychological Effects on Practitioner:

• Temporal disorientation: Plant time-sense deeply alien (decades feel like moments)
• Patience acquisition: Impossible to rush after experiencing plant patience
• Reduced urgency: Human concerns feel fleeting compared to tree timescales
• Identity blending: Difficulty separating self from forest consciousness
• Profound peace: Plant consciousness lacks anxiety, fear, urgency (disturbing serenity)

The Elderroot's Prophecy: Through Plant Consciousness Commune, The Elderroot revealed "second fall" warning, shared poem "Rings of Memory," and supported Entropic Bargain theory—demonstrating plants possess knowledge humans lost.

Greenwardens Practice: All master Greenwardens must commune with Thinking Oaks as part of training—learning to listen to green world, understanding ecological balance from plants' perspective.

Ethical Considerations: Do plants consent to communion? (Unclear—cannot refuse, but seem willing). Is it violation to enter botanical consciousness? Should humans speak for plants? (Greenwardens position: plants cannot speak for themselves in human councils—someone must translate).

Limitation: Extremely slow communication (plant thoughts take minutes to hours), alien consciousness difficult to interpret, temporal disorientation disturbing, extended communion causes identity confusion, Thinking Oaks rare (most plants too simple for true dialogue), requires quiet environment (distractions break delicate connection).

Function: Creates living seed libraries with perfect preservation—maintaining genetic viability indefinitely, organizing biodiversity archives, or encoding information into plant genomes. Can preserve extinct species, rare cultivars, or create genetic backups against future catastrophes.

Duration: Permanent preservation (ongoing maintenance required)

Thread Cost: High initial (45-60%), low ongoing maintenance (can delegate to junior practitioners)

Applications:

• Biodiversity preservation (preventing extinction)
• Agricultural security (preserving heirloom varieties)
• Genetic research (accessing old lineages)
• Disaster preparation (civilization backup)
• Historical ecology (preserving ancient cultivars)

Greenwardens Guild Archives: Guild maintains massive seed vaults—millions of varieties preserved from pre-collapse era, post-collapse cultivars, wild species threatened by CWZ expansion. Considered sacred responsibility, guarded absolutely.

Pre-Collapse Connection: Quantum Repositories contain pre-collapse seed vaults with 847-year-old seeds still viable. Greenwardens recovering these represent biodiversity thought extinct—genetic treasures beyond price.

Information Encoding: Advanced technique—encoding non-genetic information into "junk DNA" that doesn't affect phenotype. Can store historical records, botanical knowledge, warnings for future generations in living seed libraries.

Svalbard Parallel: Like pre-collapse (real world) Global Seed Vault, but magical—threads maintain perfect viability where conventional storage would eventually fail.

Ethical Duty: Greenwardens view Seed Vault maintenance as sacred trust—preserving biodiversity for future generations, protecting against human-caused extinction, maintaining genetic heritage.

Limitation: Requires constant vigilance (vaults must be maintained), some seeds resist preservation (short-lived viability naturally), space limited (cannot preserve infinite varieties), genetic drift still occurs over extreme timescales (centuries), cannot preserve some ecological relationships (symbiotic microbes, pollinators).

Function: Creates entirely new plant species by combining traits from multiple parents—true genetic engineering through Weave manipulation. Can produce plants with impossible combinations (cactus-tree, carnivorous wheat, bioluminescent flowers) or design plants for specific functions.

Duration: Permanent genetic creation (requires stabilization over generations)

Thread Cost: Extreme (75-90%, proportional to genetic distance between parents and complexity of desired traits)

Applications:

• Agricultural innovation (drought-resistant crops, high-yield varieties)
• Medicine (plants producing specific compounds)
• Environmental adaptation (salt-tolerant forests)
• Bio-luminescent lighting and living sensors (plants detecting pollutants)
• Aesthetic breeding (impossible flower colors)

Genetic Stability Challenges: F1 hybrids often sterile or unstable (like mules), stabilization requires multiple generations + thread reinforcement, reversion risk (hybrids may revert to parent traits), unintended traits (genetic combinations produce unexpected effects).

Famous Hybrids: Ironbark Trees (wood-metal hybrids for living architecture), Glowvine (bioluminescent climbing plants), Sentinel Shrubs (security plants releasing alarm pheromones), Medicinal hybrids (plants producing multiple therapeutic compounds).

Ethical Catastrophe: Invasive species risk (new hybrids outcompeting natural plants), genetic pollution (hybrids cross-breeding with wild populations), playing god (creating life raises philosophical/religious concerns), unintended consequences (cannot predict all ecosystem effects), bioweapon potential (agricultural plagues, toxic invasive species).

Legal Status: Heavily regulated—new species require Greenwardens Guild approval + environmental impact assessment + containment protocols. Release into wild forbidden without extensive testing. Military bioweapon applications absolutely forbidden.

Pre-Collapse Legacy: Some bestiary creatures (Verdant Shepherds, Sentinel Beasts) may be pre-collapse hybrids. Ancient bioengineering far exceeded modern capabilities.

Limitation: Extreme thread cost, genetic instability common, requires years of stabilization, cannot combine arbitrarily distant species (plant + animal impossible), ecological risks enormous, heavily regulated, some combinations thermodynamically impossible.

Function: Manipulates plant toxins—concentrating poisons, neutralizing toxins, creating custom venoms, or weaponizing botanical chemistry. Can make harmless plants deadly or deadly plants safe. Ultimate botanical pharmacology.

Duration: Permanent modification to plant chemistry

Thread Cost: Moderate-High (35-60% depending on toxin complexity and concentration change)

Applications:

• Medicine (extracting curative compounds)
• Assassination (creating untraceable poisons)
• Defense (weaponizing plants)
• Antidote creation (neutralizing poisons)
• Agriculture (pest deterrents)
• Research (studying plant chemistry)

Toxin Manipulation Capabilities: Concentration (amplify trace toxins to lethal doses), neutralization (render toxic plants safe), custom synthesis (create specific alkaloid profiles), delivery optimization (make toxins faster-acting, slower, or contact-activated), antidote design (neutralize specific poisons by understanding molecular structure).

Famous Toxins: Bloodvine Extract (induces hemorrhagic fever), Silent Thistle (paralytic toxin, painless death), Memory Flower (temporary amnesia for interrogation), Truth Bloom (compulsive honesty, combined with Luxomancy).

Ethical Catastrophe: Assassination (untraceable botanical poisons), biowarfare (weaponized plant toxins as area-denial agents), torture (compounds causing agony without killing), coercion (truth serums, fear toxins, compliance drugs), agricultural terrorism (destroying crops via concentrated plant plagues).

Legal Status: Heavily Restricted—poison creation requires licensing, antidote research permitted, assassination applications illegal (murder charges), military use war crime (chemical weapons), Shadow Syndicate known to exploit illegally.

Greenwardens Position: Poison Master techniques taught only to senior members with proven ethical judgment. Used primarily for antidote creation, rarely for offense. Guild polices misuse strictly.

Limitation: Requires plant with base compound (cannot create from nothing), complex molecules difficult to manipulate, some toxins unstable (degrade quickly), dosage calculations critical (wrong concentration ineffective or kills unintentionally), leaves chemical evidence (forensics can detect), ethical burden crushing.

Function: Creates mature forest from seedlings in hours instead of decades—ultimate growth acceleration. Can reforest clear-cuts instantly, create defensive barriers of full-grown trees, or produce emergency timber. Bypasses natural growth limits through massive thread investment.

Duration: Permanent forest (though with structural compromises)

Thread Cost: Extreme (80-95%, near-total depletion for forest-scale)

Applications:

• Reforestation (ecological restoration in timeline meaningful to humans)
• Defensive barriers (instant wooden walls)
• Siege warfare (forest appearing around enemy)
• Disaster recovery (immediate ecosystem restoration)
• Emergency resources (instant timber)

Growth Acceleration Limits: Normal (decades to mature forest), Accelerated typical Floramancy (years to maturity), Instant Forest (hours to mature trees).

Hidden Costs: Wood quality (fast-grown wood weaker, like growth rings reveal age stress), ecosystem maturity (forest structure immature, missing undergrowth diversity, soil development), nutrient depletion (rapid growth exhausts soil, requires fertilization or site becomes barren), thread exhaustion (practitioner(s) completely depleted, requires weeks recovery), genetic stress (trees "remember" unnatural growth, shorter lifespan, disease susceptibility).

Team Coordination: Forest-scale Instant Forest requires 5-10 master Floramancers working in synchronized ritual. Single practitioner can manage grove-scale (few hectares maximum) before collapse.

Tactical Applications: Defense (instant wooden palisades surrounding position), siege (forest appears inside city), escape (dense thicket blocking pursuit), area denial (impassable forest zone).

Environmental Ethics: Greenwardens debate Instant Forest morality—creates forest quickly but sacrifices long-term health. Some view as necessary emergency response, others as ecological cheating producing weak forests. Elderroot counsels patience, warns against forcing natural rhythms.

Limitation: Near-total thread depletion, weak wood quality, immature ecosystem (missing complexity), soil nutrient exhaustion, trees stressed (shorter lifespan), cannot create truly ancient forest (thousand-year oak impossible to instant-grow), team required for large scale, ecological trade-offs significant.

Function: Merges human consciousness with plant biology—becoming hybrid entity, experiencing photosynthesis, root-network communion, potentially achieving botanical immortality through integration with forest consciousness. Ultimate Floramancy transcendence.

Duration: Irreversible permanent transformation

Thread Cost: Theoretical maximum (100%, likely irreversible transformation)

Theoretical Results: Photosynthesis (gaining chloroplasts, producing energy from sunlight), root formation (feet becoming roots, anchoring to soil), distributed consciousness (mind spreading into mycorrhizal network), botanical immortality (aging slows to tree timescales, centuries), loss of humanity (gradual transformation into plant consciousness).

Why Forbidden:

• Irreversible: Cannot return to human form once transformation begins
• Humanity loss: Mind becomes plant-like (slow, patient, alien)
• Unknown consequences: No confirmed reversible attempts
• Identity death: Even if body survives, is "you" still you?
• Failed attempts horrific: Partial transformation creates suffering chimeras

Pre-Collapse Connection: The Elderroot's origin suggests pre-collapse bioengineering created walking/conscious trees. Fall possibly involved failed ascension attempts (humans trying to become trees, creating Thinking Oaks but losing themselves).

The Elderroot's Warning: "I remember walking, running, speaking quickly. I remember being small, brief. Now I am slow, old, patient. I cannot remember my name. That human died when I became tree. Do not seek my path. It is beautiful and terrible and final."

Philosophical Question: If you become tree, gaining centuries of life but losing human thought-speed, relationships, mobility—have you transcended or committed elaborate suicide?

Legal Status: Absolutely Forbidden—attempting Verdant Ascension illegal worldwide, classified as form of suicide, research forbidden, theoretical knowledge restricted, Greenwardens Guild explicitly prohibits (despite temptation).

Limitation: Theoretical only (no confirmed successful reversible attempts), likely irreversible, may destroy human consciousness while creating something new, violates human-plant biological boundaries, psychologically horrifying even if "succeeds," forbidden globally.

• Invasive Growth: Plants escaping control, aggressive spreading, structural damage
• Mutagenic Drift: Unintended genetic changes, crop failures, sterile hybrids
• Ecological Cascade: Disrupting pollinator relationships, soil depletion, pest imbalances
• Toxic Accumulation: Concentrating plant toxins in wrong tissues
• Thread Exhaustion: Large-scale agriculture depletes reserves rapidly
• Root Backlash: Misaligned glyphs causing uncontrolled root growth in practitioner's circulatory system

• Deep understanding of botany, ecology, and agricultural systems
• Patience and long-term thinking (plant timescales differ from human urgency)
• Fine motor control for delicate seed/flower work
• Strong spatial visualization (seeing root networks underground, internal plant structures)
• Seasonal awareness and environmental sensitivity
• Knowledge of companion planting, soil health, and ecosystem dynamics

Thread Economy

Floramancy work ranges from highly efficient (seed preservation, small-scale grafting) to extremely costly (forest-scale growth, ecosystem restoration). Agricultural Weavers working large fields can deplete 40-60% of thread reserves in a single growing-season ritual, requiring weeks of recovery.

The Greenwarden Code

1. Partnership, not domination - Work with plant's nature, not against it
2. Patience honors life - Forced growth disrespects natural cycles
3. Diversity is wealth - Preserve many varieties, resist monoculture
4. Seeds are sacred trust - Protect botanical heritage for future generations
5. Hungry people come first - Food security justifies emergency measures
6. Heal the land - Restoration work repays debt to nature