the Emberleaf Conclave
The Emberleaf Conclave
“From ash, sorrow blooms again. And in its petals, we remember.”
— Aeris Valdren, Ember-Druid of the Third Seeding
Overview
The Emberleaf Conclave is a radiant and solemn order of druids, fire-tenders, and griefsmiths who walk the line between destruction and renewal. Their sacred belief holds that memories, especially those laced with sorrow or longing, do not belong in urns or archives—but in living soil, where they can be reborn as new life.
These mystics perform rites of “seeding,” where memory-bound ash is scattered into volcanic terrain to fertilize flora, infuse creatures, and reshape landscapes into memorials that breathe. They do not fear fire. In fact, fire is the soul’s whisper, and volcanic soil is its scripture.
Their headquarters lie along the fertile flanks of Kessereth, the slumbering volcano cradled by ancient forest, where roots twist around bones and blossoms grow from sorrow.
Core Tenets
Memory must not sit still—it must feed the land.
Ash is not the end. It is the beginning’s echo.
Grief left unplanted is grief that will rot.
What burns may yet bloom.
To remember is to seed the soul anew.
Roles within the Conclave
Ashseers – Flame-bound oracles who read memories through fire's color, shape, and ashfall.
Seedbinders – Druids who tend sacred groves where sorrow is planted as fruit-bearing grief flora.
Volcanites – Fire-tenders who maintain deep vents and molten channels, guiding ashflows for rituals.
Bloomwrights – Artists and ritualists who inscribe memories onto petals, bark, or living stone.
Cradlewalkers – Memory-guides who escort mourners through flame gardens and help transmute their pain into planted tribute.
Structure & Rituals
Rather than hierarchy, the Conclave operates in Cycles of Flame—seasonal rites where members rotate roles and rebirth their identity in symbolic fire. A single member may serve as Bloomwright in spring, Volcanite in summer, Cradlewalker in fall, and Seedbinder in winter.
They celebrate Ashbirth Festivals, where mourners are invited to scatter ashes of loved ones into memory groves, then return months later to see what has grown. The plants often exhibit traits of the remembered, in scent, color, or even whispering voices on the wind.
Associated Classes
Wyrdchanter – Infuse songs into seeds, growing symphonic flora.
Soulmidwife – Shepherd memories into the soil, healing grief through rebirth.
Griefsmith – Forge tools of renewal rather than war—shovels that plant emotion, not cut it down.
Emberblade (custom subclass) – A druidic warrior who brands the land with memory-fueled fire.
Important Locations
The Flamewomb Glade – A sacred volcano-fed grove where the Conclave’s most potent memories are sown. Trees here bloom only when someone mourns.
Ashroot Spiral – A garden where plants are grown in winding trails of sorrow. Following the path leads one through stages of grief.
Cradlecairn – A resting field where mourners bury grief-forged stones that blossom into grief-moss, used in healing rituals.
The Molten Nursery – A chasm beneath Kessereth where seed-embers are born in the molten breath of the volcano itself.
Relations to Other Factions
Allied with:
The Ashbinders’ Guild, who supply grief-forged tools for planting memory into the land.
The Thornbinders, with whom they share territory, philosophy, and kinship with living forests.
The Cyclekeepers, who document the effects of seeded memories on flora and fauna.
Wary of:
The Prism Wardens, whose fascination with death as reflection feels cold and static.
The Ledger Guild, who they believe hoard memory instead of allowing it to nourish life.
Secrets and Rumors
Some say the first seed ever planted by the Conclave grew into a tree that weeps flame instead of sap, and those who sleep beneath it dream only of lives they've never lived.
Certain Volcanites have begun experimenting with “blightseeds”—corrupted ash sprouts that consume grief too violently, causing madness.
It’s rumored the Conclave can bring a soul back—not by necromancy, but by growing a body from ash that remembers.