Lacrima

Name

The flowers are also called ‘Tears of the Gods' (v2 p20)

Significance

  • Very rare, sacred, magical and expensive (v2 p20)
  • Rarely blooms, flowers have the strongest magical property (v5 p45)
  • The bark is used to craft higher clergies summoning instruments

Properties & Effects

  • Gives off a strong magical scent
  • Can be used to ward off strong spirits, both demons and holy (v5 p151)
  • The sprout Keri had also fended off and killed Carciphona children by spiritual aura alone (v5 p38-39)
  • A piece of bark is used to bind a soul to the immortal spirits for the initiation as a magic user (v5 p45)

Uses

  • Lacrima drink are used to give peaceful deaths to a Carciphona (v5 p36)
  • Veloce drinks it to soothe her demon infestations/visions/stalkers (v2 p28-29)
  • Used by nobles to commit suicide (v5 p127)

Appearances

  • Weirin's hairpin of choice (a gift made for her by Keri (v2 p17))
  • A tiny lacrima sprout was left when the Requis piece of Hiraeth was destroyed
  • Kathryn's room was flooded with Lacrima flowers (also branches?)
    • A branch grew from the mirror she broke in her confrontation against veloce
  • There is a huge lacrima tree growing under and into the Church of Catharsis
    • Withering for centuries (v5 p45)
    • The fairy was interested in it
      • [THEORY/SPECULATION] She might have been taking Veloce to it, judging by the background shots
      • [THEORY/SPECULATION] Shilin drew a picture of a/the fairy in a pond surrounded by lacrima trees and flowers that were crying? Creating the pool underneath