Saunt Chandera’s Bane

First Appearance and Context

Saunt Chandera’s Bane is identified when a bouquet is carried to the bellworks of the Mynster at the Concent of Saunt Edhar. A suur recognizes one of the blossoms and remarks that it is “one of the Eleven.” The fraa who brought it had carried the bouquet through the Warden Regulant’s court, an act noted as daring under the inward watch of the Warden Regulant.

Description and Properties

The plant is remarked upon for its “weird‑looking” but striking blossom that appears in the spring. No botanical details are given in the current account beyond the name and its distinctive seasonal flower. As a listed member of the Eleven, its presence inside a math is proscribed.

Status and Handling

Within the mathic world, members of the Eleven are contraband intramuros: when found in a math they are to be uprooted and burned, and the occurrence recorded in the Chronicle. Carrying Saunt Chandera’s Bane openly through the Mynster was treated as a conscious, risky gesture in view of discipline enforced by the Warden Regulant.

Nomenclature

The name indicates an association with a saunt called “Chandera,” though the narrative to date provides no background about that figure. The specific reasons for the plant’s proscription are not stated beyond its inclusion among the Eleven.