The Flowermaker

The Flowermaker is a “greedy power of things too wonderful to bear”. He was born from “sparks of delight” created the first Forbidden Acts of the Forge of Days, and now creates wonderful things - perhaps too wonderful. The Flowermaker promises to fulfill one’s desires, if they are only able to find him.[2][3][4] His aspects are Grail[1] and Lantern[5].[6] His hour is 7 p.m.

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Events

The Forbidden Acts of the Forge: The origins of the Flowermaker are tied to the “first Forbidden Acts of the Forge”. While these acts aren’t explicitly stated, they are mentioned in the context of pleasures so powerful that they “corrupt the laws of the physical world”, with the sparks from the Forge’s pleasure in its work planting the seeds of the Flowermaker.[3]

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Servants

• Karpellus: A Name of the Flowermaker who appears as part of both paths of the Change ascension.[7]
• Lady Tryphon: A Grail-Long venerated as a Saint by the Sisterhood of the Knot, who before her ascension was male. She is loved by both the Red Grail and the Flowermaker, and can be encountered as an enemy Long in the Apostle Obsonate legacy.[8][9]
• Lord Franklin Bancroft: An initiate taught the art of the Flowermaker by a ‘rose-witch’ named Fionna Ayrshire, who refused Bancroft’s many romantic advances. Bancroft primarily used his knowledge of the occult to entertain guests and pursue whimsical projects before disappearing in 1790.[10][11]

Relationships

• The Red Grail: The Flowermaker has been known to visit the Red Church, sacred to the Red Grail, with his promises as well as Amaranthine Nectar, which in other Histories was able to bestow immortality.[12][13]
• The Forge of Days: The Hour responsible for the creation of the Flowermaker.[3]

Other Notes

• The Flowermaker’s themes of flowers, dreams, and intoxicating pleasures likely connect him specifically to the drug opium, which dates back to ancient times and is used as well in Cultist Simulator.[14]
• In both paths of the Change ascension, the player’s sending in the shape of a fox travels to Foxlily Meadows to learn from the Flowermaker the lesson “Hues, Surrendered.”[15][16][17]
• The Flowermaker is also one of the Hours which allows the Elixir Zeboim used in the Ghoul legacy to draw out memories from the dead when consumed, along with the Elegiast and the Crowned Growth.[18]

Real World References

• The Flowermaker takes the place of the Sun in the Tarot of the Hours. The Sun can represent freedom, success, and contentment, and is usually a positive sign of a time to be carefree and confident.
• Fionna Ayrshire’s last name comes from a region of southwest Scotland.

Theories and Questions

• One theory is that the Forbidden Acts which sparked the birth of the Flowermaker may have been tied to the Forge’s shattering of the Flint, as the first recorded acts of the Forge of Days.
• For a time it was speculated that the Flowermaker may be one of the Hours born in the Intercalate, but little evidence supports this, and it is generally believed that the four children of the Sun are accounted for in the Meniscate, Sun-in-Rags, Madrugad, and Wolf-Divided.
• The Applebright may be tied to the Flowermaker in some way. The sparks of the Forge were said to take root “in the Glory or Nowhere”. It may be that while the Flowermaker was born in the Glory, the Applebright was born in Nowhere.[19]

In-Game Sources

1. Anthic Elaboration 2. ...today's the Hour of the Flowermaker, a greedy power of things too wonderful to bear 3. Read 'A Catalogue of Uncharted Pleasures' 4. The Peacock Door (influencelanterng) 5. Veneration: Lantern 6. Also confirmed by The Flowermaker's Shadow and Flowermaker-Touched in Exile 7. The Lilyking's Name and The Name of the Flowermaker 8. Read 'The Rose of Nuriel' 9. Lady Tryphon, A Letter from Lady Tryphon 10. Lord Franklin Bancroft: Diaries, 1750-1790 11. Read 'Lord Franklin Bancroft: Diaries, 1750-1790' 12. The Red Church (ingredientgraild) 13. Amaranthine Nectar 14. Purchase a Tincture of Opium 15. Foxlily Meadows 16. Instar: Russet and Guise: Fox 17. Hues, Surrendered (Moth), Hues, Surrendered (Heart) 18. Formula: Elixir Zeboim 19. THE FEAST FULFILL'D

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