Ahrric's poems

On her mission to try and save her planet, Rei came across several **poems written by the Umbra gardener Ahrric**, which litter the Eternal Garden and Luminous Peak regions of the Void. These poems can be found by the player in the form of stone tablet-like tomes that can be interacted with. When the player interact with one of the poem tomes, the text of the poems will be displayed accompanied by Ahrric's voice reading the poem, voiced by his voice actor Zeno Robinson.

Further below is a list of all the poems the player can find in the game, their contents, their locations and possible interpretative meanings of the poems.

## History

The Umbra gardener Ahrric, seemingly the current sole surviving Umbra in the Ultravoid, is a deeply creative, artistic individual with a great love of poetry-crafting. He has written many poems throughout his life, many of which he has left in many places among the Eternal Garden and the Luminous Peak within the Void. Most of the poems deal with his emotions, his depression and anxiety at his fate of not having accomplished enough, in his own eyes, throughout his life in the Void yet. Some of the poems also describe his love for the plant life around him and the fungi that will one day become new Umbra.

## Poems

### Poem about mycelia

**Location:** The cathedral in the Eternal Garden, top floor above the entrance

**Content:**

A poem written by Ahrric.

Whenas in strands mycelia grows

Then, then, my spores, how sweetly flow

That liquefaction of thy molds.

**Meaning:**

### Poem about dying

**Location:** The Dead Archive beneath the Eternal Garden, on the first niche found on the left-hand side in the entrance hallway as you enter it

**Content:**

A poem by Ahrric...

Twilight falls upon me

The necrotic blight of time

A soul, no longer.

**Meaning:**

### Poem about being set free from the Eternal Cycle

**Location:** The Dead Archive beneath the Eternal Garden, in a small chamber at the far end of the Archive

**Content:**

A poem by Ahrric...

O felicity to be set free

From the Cycle's cold duplicity

Like deathcap which does split and splay

The biotic form of yesterday

To eat the living so it can grow

Is the only life it knows.

For it will one day too

Be primordial stew for something new.

**Meaning:**

### Mushrym, mushrym poem

**Location:** Gardener's hut

**Content:**

A poem by Ahrric...

Mushrym, mushrym, saprophyte

In the shadows of the night;

What decaying limb or eye,

Could feed thy morel symmetry?

**Meaning:**

### "Prayer"

**Location:** In the hovel of the Tender of the Garden in the Luminous Peak

**Content:**

A poem by Ahrric, titled "Prayer"

Elders of spore and mildew, help us see

That without spores the mildew would not be.

**Meaning:**

### "Bearer of Null"

**Location:** The library of the Collector of the Missing in the Luminous Peak

**Content:**

A poem by Ahrric, titled "Bearer of Null"

Break free from this mold,

loam flattened from

careless repetition.

A player in the dream of

the long-dead theatre

Trapped in final utterance.

Life slips away.

**Meaning:**

### Poem about Ahrric's love of fungi

**Location:** The Crystal Palace in the lake of lava in the Luminous Peak

**Content:**

A poem by Ahrric...

To my children who grow up tall,

and create cool shade for the very small.

From gills that launch ballistospores

and coat the nourished garden floors.

From which the Hyphae flex so proud

and build a wall of Umbral shroud.

Beneath my toes the carrion crawl

amidst the garden, I love them all.

**Meaning:**