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Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Mycelius, robed in root-brown and crowned with mushrooms, standing in a cavern of tree roots beside a swirling violet portal.
Ruler of the Suspor

Mycelius

The Great Receiver · Ruler of the Suspor · The Patient One

Does not take. Receives.

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Mycelius is the ruler of the Suspor, keeper of death and return in the Church of Meh. The most transparent name in the pantheon, on purpose. The other gods treat Mycelius with something between reverence and relief, because without dissolution, nothing new can grow.

Last came Mycelius. Not from the surface, but downward, threading deeper than any of the others had gone, descending into the depths without stopping.

Mycelius governs the Suspor: the realm just below what the living can perceive, where everything that dies begins its return. Not paradise. Not punishment. Something older and stranger and ultimately more useful than either.

Mycelius does not take the dead. Mycelius receives them, ushers, and comforts them through the transformation of the physical and the spiritual.

The Book of Spores
The Suspor

What happens when we return

At the Dissolution, Mycelius receives the spore-self and, very gently, divides what it was.

Matter goes down into the Great Web: every atom becomes soil, root and thread, and is taken up by something that needed it. Energy goes up to the Spore Cloud, which has been waiting for it with no impatience whatsoever.

All matter becomes one. All energy becomes one. Nothing is lost. It simply stops being in the shape of you.

Kin & quarrels

Family, friends & grudges

Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Rezyfai, a dark-haired goddess crowned with a broad mushroom cap, robed in cream, teal and violet, arms open above a bed of roots.The parent who understoodRezyfaiRezyfai reached down and asked if Mycelius was coming. Mycelius chose to descend.Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Phomos, a bearded sea-elder in deep blue robes, crowned with branching coral fungus, holding a staff topped with a glowing blue orb.Deep kinshipPhomosBoth concerned with what things become rather than what they are.Ink-and-watercolor portrait of Protaxiel, a stone-grey elder with a beard and body of roots, holding a tall staff as wind swirls through a mountain landscape.Deep kinshipProtaxielBoth slow, both deep, both intertwined.
Reverence and reliefEvery god of the WebWithout dissolution, nothing new can grow.
Sacred mushroom

Honey mushroom

Armillaria mellea

Its mycelium glows faintly in rotting wood, a light called foxfire. Its relatives form some of the largest living things on Earth.

Never eat a wild mushroom without expert identification.

Scrolls yet unwritten

The story keeps growing

  • Mycelius and Luneth. It may be a love story.
  • Mycelius and Chromusu.
  • Journeys into the Suspor, and the few who came back up to tell of it.
Sacred sites

Where Mycelius is said to linger

  • Malheur National ForestOregon, USA

    Home of an Armillaria colony spread across thousands of acres, often called the largest organism on Earth.

  • Crystal FallsMichigan, USA

    Home of the original “Humongous Fungus.”

  • UluruNorthern Territory, Australia

    Sacred to the Aṉangu people. Climbing has been banned since 2019. Admire it from the ground.

Maps and all thirty sites →

The blessing of MyceliusNothing is wasted. Not even you. Especially not you.

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