The Succulent Glow

The Succulent Glow
Origin	Flesh and Light
Titles	The Succulent Glow The Honey-Fire The Fun Guy
Names	none
Aspects
Date of arrival	circa 72 B.C.E
Owner(s)	Anaconda With Sword

The Succulent Glow (The Honey-Fire, The Fun Guy) is the Eleventh Hour of the Fansus, created by Anaconda With Sword. It is a God-From-Flesh and From-Light; a mortal who climbed The Spirarch to reach the Glory and was not prepared for what happened to it. Its aspects are Grail, Lantern, and Moth in decreasing order of importance.

Its tarot card is the Wheel of Fortune.

Description

Appearance

The Succulent Glow appears as a great, golden mushroom which stretches up towards the Glory to block out its light. In the darkness, the Succulent Glow lives up to its name, producing a faint greenish light. Sweet liquid drips from the pink underside of its cap, and those dreamers who drink it never leave their dream, simply curling up beneath it and letting the spores of the Succulent Glow consume them.

Principles

The Succulent Glow is the Hour of ambition, and of unsatisfied hunger for better things. Its principles are that of the mother who vicariously lives through her child, the beggar who desires to be king, the priest who demands to be treated as a god. It is invoked by lackeys, minions, flunkeys, and all those who desperately crowd around their desire like mold on a loaf of rotting bread yet are never satisfied by the taste of what they want.

Worship

Cult

The Honeyed-Tongued Ones, members of which are called Sycophants. Their motto is Success is an unparalleled sweetness.

Mark

• Temptation: Fervor: I have the key to my ambitions, if I have the desire to grasp it.
• Dedication: Fervor: I have dedicated myself to sampling my ambitions.
• Ascension: Fervor: The Honey-Fire has touched me, and my mouth is full of honey and poison. I speak sweetly, or bitterly, but almost never honestly. I know this to be the Third Mark.
• Ascension: Fervor: The Fourth Mark has stirred my blood, and changed my desires. I want nothing of what I wanted before, and everything of what I cannot have. Ambition is an unparalleled sweetness on my tongue, and the downfall of others an ecstasy beyond imagining.
• Ascension: Fervor: When I bleed, my blood is clear and glows in the darkness. I consume poisons and rotted food without tasting anything but honey. This is the Fifth Mark.
• Ascension: Fervor: I eat, and eat, but I grow no more. The Sixth Mark consumes my entire being, leaving me as thin and dessicated as a corpse. I will never be sated, no matter what I do.
• The Sparkling Sweetness: I have entered through the Tricuspid Gate, starving for my ambitions. When I return to the world, I will be able to have all that I seek. This is the Succulent Glow's promise. Perhaps I will rise higher. Perhaps I will rebel.

Servants

• Ascomycete Dead: The Succulent Glow has claimed this spirit for its own. Already the mushrooms sprout from its skin, and clouds of golden spores scatter where it walks. Soon, it will have to be returned, but for now it will serve.

Locations

The Fansus

The Succulent Glow sprouts from the Arbory, yearning towards the Glory with every inch of its being. Saccharine liquid drips from the underside of its cap, running down the House until it crystalizes, or reaches the depth of the Foundations where the worms burrow. Dreamers and Dead can be seen crowded around its base, rotting away to feed its growth towards the Glory.

The Histories

• A Maligned Pit
  • The final resting place of a crazed and tyrannical ruler. The royals beheaded him and mangled his corpse, but they couldn't have known the treasures he carried. Probably.

Items

Tools

• Pestilent Spoon (4): An artifact of change, with mushrooms engraved upon the hilt.

Ingredients

• Foxfire Honey (4, Pigment): In the light, it is a white that is impossible to look at. In the dark, it is most likely a green, although it's too bright to tell.
• Armillaria Sap (8, Poison): It's a sweetness like sugar, and a bitterness like hemlock.

Books

• A Guide to Getting Rich and Famous (2, -2 funds, Reason->Concentration): Written by the sort of gentleman who has never needed anything in his life.

Relationships

• The Storm-Tossed: Tenacious resources.
• The Spirarch: Host. Support. Resources.
• The Perennial: Delicious resources? Maybe?
• The Faceless King: Manipulable resources.
• The Hunter: Tenacious resources.
• The Masquerade: Obstruction. Resources to be collected swiftly.
• The Bright Tapestry: Delicious resources.
• The Die-Cutter: Annoying resources.
• The Mother Bear: Resources.
• The Maw Consuming: Thief. Thief. Resources, but a thief. This one dies first.
• The Knife's Edge: Tenacious resources.
• The Princess Prominent: Awful resources. Just the worst.
• The Warrior Maid: Resource that makes more resources. Confusing, but tasty.
• The Ferric Brand: Delicious resources.
• The Fell-Feaster: Competition.
• The Monument: Resources.
• The Cub: Resources.
• The Ink: Mom likes me better! Resources to be consumed wastefully.
• Flint-and-Steel: Delicious resources.
• Our Lady Betrayed: Resources to be consumed slowly, savored for eternity.
• The Fool Unrepentant: Annoying resources, but mom says not to eat them.
• The Worm Funktastic: Annoying resources.
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• The Rotted Ox: Delicious resources.
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• Our Lady's Resolve:
• The More-Opened: Delicious resources.
• The Unending Worm: Inaccessible resources (for now).
• The Clavier: ...Put it back.
• The Trickster Princes: Mom likes me better! Resources to be consumed wastefully.