Midnight spores

Midnight spores are a dark dust-like fungus that become wispy filaments with age. The fungus's spores have a mind-affecting power if inhaled. Legends suggest that the fungus grows on certain ancient graves in Pharasma's Boneyard.

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In Saventh-Yhi

Years before Earthfall, the Pharasmin priest of prophecy Urschlar Vohkavi of Saventh-Yhi traveled to the Boneyard to pursue answers directly from Pharasma about his troubling visions of an imminent catastrophe. He was unable to secure an audience, but in his wanderings he discovered a black flower growing from the unearthed bones of a grave lit by Groetus in the Graveyard of Souls. Upon taking the flower, a voice answered Vohkavi's questions, taught him about midnight spores, and suggested that the spores would allow others to understand his visions.

Soon after returning to Saventh-Yhi, Vohkavi's two other Pharasmin peers of birth and death died under strange circumstances, and Vohkavi used his newfound power to preach his doomsaying prophecies and introduced midnight spores into the city's water supply to make them more pliable to his sermons. The city eventually granted Vohkavi power to excavate seven vaults beneath the city, which he seeded with midnight spores, and moved the magical and curative Argental Font into the vaults.

The impact of Earthfall occurred earlier than Vohkavi's predictions, however, and fractured the vaults and sent dense clouds of midnight spores across the city, resulting in a night of intense madness that led to the deaths of most of the city's population. The few survivors stumbled in the jungle and were killed by its natural dangers, and Vohkavi died in the vaults while attempting to reach the Argental Font.