Foliora: Prism Botanica

Hall I

First Light

Seats0

Budget—

Light0

Best—

Choose a tessera, then seat it in a matching came.

How the lead closes

Each tessera has a botanical cut and a metal hue. Seat it only in a came of the same cut and hue.
In later halls the shards arrive turned. Rotate until the vein points along the radial came.
When the sun path is awake, the outer ring must ignite before an inner petal can take glass.
Mirrored vaults write a twin on the opposite sector the moment you seat a piece.
A light budget counts every seat. Hints spend extra light. A finished window opens flora and the next hall.

Window sealed

Light returns

Botanical palace with gold-trimmed stained glass at dusk

Five palace halls

Restore the oriels in order

Each hall keeps its own discipline. The next colonnade stays shuttered until every window in the hall before it is sealed.

Citrus orangery with amber stained-glass borders

Hall I

Dawn Orangery

Open

Morning gold stain and citron leaves. Match cut and hue. The shards already sit in the correct turn.

Iron and glass fernery with gilded columns

Hall II

Fern Cloister

Shuttered

Fragments arrive turned. Align each vein with the radial came before the lead can close.

Hall III

Camellia Gallery

Shuttered

Sunlight must walk inward. Seat the outer ring first so the inner petals can take color.

Hall IV

Iris Vault

Shuttered

The vault is bilateral. A tessera seated on one side writes its twin across the axis.

Hall V

Night Conservatory

Shuttered

Turned shards, a sun path, and a short light budget. The last windows of the palace.

Faceted botanical glass fragments on dark velvet

Rare glass plants

Collection of the conservatory

Each sealed window yields a botanical tessera for the palace book. Locked entries stay as silhouettes until their window is restored.

Botanical rose window casting colored light on marble

Lead and light

How a palace window is rebuilt

Foliora treats restoration as a craft of cames, hues, and botanical silhouettes rather than a simple jigsaw.

Cames

H-section lead holds each tessera. The dark lines on the rose window are those channels. A piece seats only when its outline matches the came and its hue matches the cartoon painted on the bench.

Marble floor with pools of emerald and ruby light

Sun path

In the Camellia Gallery the outer ring is the only glass the morning can touch. Once that ring ignites, light walks inward along the same sector. Inner petals stay dark until their outer neighbor is sealed.

Metal hues

Emerald is copper in the melt. Gold stain is silver painted on the surface and fired. Ruby uses gold chloride. Sapphire is cobalt. Amber is iron and sulfur. Amethyst is manganese. Foliora uses these six metals as the only palette of the palace.

Iris vault with jewel light on the floor

Cuts

Six botanical cuts appear across the halls: lance leaf, ivy, bloom, ginkgo fan, dew drop, and kite quarry. Later halls deliver them already turned, so the vein must be rotated onto the radial came.

Mirrored vaults

The Iris Vault was designed as a bilateral cartoon. Seating a tessera on the left writes the same cut and hue on the right. Axis sectors have no twin and must be placed by hand.

Palace fernery with gold-trimmed iron vault

Light budget

Night lamps in the last hall hold only a short charge. Every seat spends one measure. A hint spends two more. Finish before the lamps go out, or the cartoon resets.

Palace book

Annals of the atelier

Sealed windows, best light, and the halls you have opened stay on this device.

Sealed0 / 15

Halls1 / 5

Flora0 / 15

Light0

Finished windows

Clear the bench

This removes sealed windows, flora, and best light from the device. The halls return to their first shuttered state.