The Tenders

Long unbroken curves, mirrored. Violet #B48CFF. Seat: Greenvault.

Coil (coil) — In data

• Faction, colour: Tenders, #B48CFF
• Tier: mirrored
• Right thumb: an S: start upper right, curve over the top to the left, sweep down through the middle, round the bottom, finish lower left. No corners. Half as wide as it is tall.
• Left thumb: the mirror image, starting upper left.
• Size, breath, corners: 34 mm, 700 ms, none
• Battle: 24 damage.
• Field: pulls a lever, rope or loose object across a gap; ties off a drifting boat; catches runaway goats, as Greenvault folk use it.
• Glyph kind: whole
• Learned: the Drowned Steps, the first fragment, with Aske teaching how to trace (whole glyph). Built in VEL-34.
• Act: Prologue
• Role: damage

Mend (mend) — In data

• Faction, colour: Tenders, #B48CFF
• Tier: mirrored
• Right thumb: a cup: straight down, round the bottom, back up the outer side to the starting height. Two-thirds as wide as it is tall.
• Left thumb: the mirror image.
• Size, breath, corners: 34 mm, 650 ms, none
• Battle: heal 20.
• Field: heals you between fights; heals a wounded animal or person, which several side quests ask for. It only heals what would heal on its own, the Tender rule.
• Glyph kind: taught
• Learned: Halfway, taught by Sister Orla, the Tender healer, at her stall on the Pale Row, in return for a small job (quest mend_lesson). Optional.
• Act: Act 1 (optional)
• Role: healing

Wither (wither)

• Faction, colour: Tenders, #B48CFF
• Tier: mirrored
• Right thumb: an arch, the Mend cup turned upside down: straight up the inner side, over a round top, straight down the outer side. Two-thirds as wide as it is tall. No corners.
• Left thumb: the mirror image.
• Size, breath, corners: 34 mm, 650 ms, none
• Battle: 5 damage a second for 6 s (30).
• Field: rots a wooden barricade, thorn wall or rotten door so it can be walked through.
• Glyph kind: whole
• Learned: Greenvault, a whole glyph on a dead stump on the decay terrace (key item fragment_wither).
• Act: Act 2 (optional faction visit)
• Role: damage

Root (root)

• Faction, colour: Tenders, #B48CFF
• Tier: mirrored
• Right thumb: an S lying on its side: start at the inner end, rise in a smooth hump, fall through the middle line into a smooth dip, come back up to the middle line at the outer end. It is almost as tall as it is wide (the two humps together reach 90% of the width).
• Left thumb: the mirror image, moving outward to the left.
• Size, breath, corners: 36 mm, 700 ms, none
• Battle: heal 4 a second for 8 s (32); you can't be staggered meanwhile.
• Field: grows a vine across a gap or up a wall, and opens vine-locked doors (the Spell Set's Bloom, folded in: there is no Bloom spell).
• Glyph kind: whole
• Learned: Greenvault, a whole glyph cut in a living vine.
• Act: Act 2 (optional faction visit)
• Role: healing

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