From the notebook of Filira Salazar Caradini, member of the Royal Academy of Yrkanis:
... while Kitins are still seen, they seem to be somewhat confused and definitely distracted, being still aggressive, but less attentive than usual. Most extraordinary are the Rotoas, though. Filira Cuiccio already told us that the roots of the original Almati Rotoas we planted surprisingly continued to grow while the mother plant - as expected - began to wither. However, now there are new, pretty huge blooming Rotoas near the sites where the original Rotoas were planted. From what we know, the first plant didn't live long enough to develop pods or seeds. Those would give some sort of explanation for the new Rotoas, but then they would develop less structured, more chaotic, on the places the seeds fell onto the soil.
The solution might lie, in fact, in Filira Cuiccio's surprising revelation. The new Rotoas are probably some sort of scions growing from the roots of the original Rotoas. From a scientific point, this would be nothing less than sensational, for that behaviour of the Rotoa is, I think, unknown to science yet, while pretty common in mushrooms. But then this might be a new way of the Rotoa to deal with an environment not natural and, in fact, normally deadly to it.
From what I could see, the new Rotoas grow in a sort of circle around the original plant. If the roots spread that far and developed new plants, under the bark there must be a rather solid, thick root braid pretty deadly for the Kitins, and definitely suited to close down the tunnels on a rather big scale. The whole thing took already too much time for my taste, but if this is the case we learn much more from the experience than expected.
... while Kitins are still seen, they seem to be somewhat confused and definitely distracted, being still aggressive, but less attentive than usual. Most extraordinary are the Rotoas, though. Filira Cuiccio already told us that the roots of the original Almati Rotoas we planted surprisingly continued to grow while the mother plant - as expected - began to wither. However, now there are new, pretty huge blooming Rotoas near the sites where the original Rotoas were planted. From what we know, the first plant didn't live long enough to develop pods or seeds. Those would give some sort of explanation for the new Rotoas, but then they would develop less structured, more chaotic, on the places the seeds fell onto the soil.
The solution might lie, in fact, in Filira Cuiccio's surprising revelation. The new Rotoas are probably some sort of scions growing from the roots of the original Rotoas. From a scientific point, this would be nothing less than sensational, for that behaviour of the Rotoa is, I think, unknown to science yet, while pretty common in mushrooms. But then this might be a new way of the Rotoa to deal with an environment not natural and, in fact, normally deadly to it.
From what I could see, the new Rotoas grow in a sort of circle around the original plant. If the roots spread that far and developed new plants, under the bark there must be a rather solid, thick root braid pretty deadly for the Kitins, and definitely suited to close down the tunnels on a rather big scale. The whole thing took already too much time for my taste, but if this is the case we learn much more from the experience than expected.
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Salazar CaradiniFilira Matia
Royal Historian
Member of the Royal Academy of Yrkanis
First Seraph of the Order of the Argo Navis