Horticulturists

Hanging Gardens of Venusia
In the golden cloud seas of Venusia, there are suspended hanging gardens in palaces of crystalline glass. There thrive forests of wondrous living growth, lifegiving wonders nurturing the people of Venusia and producing the air they breathe.

Trees like leaf-green spires hang in skyward towers like glowing chandeliers, some so great that they must be guarded at all times so as to not be robbed of their riches in fruit and organic growth.

Where they are known to the people of the Heliopolis, they have been given the name Keepers, Horticulturists, and bearers of the burden to Venusia. For it is their gardens that the most precious treasures of the entire world are kept, the plants and microfauna on which all the world persists. Every plant on Venusia sprouted from their seed and it is their care that keeps them alive.

Outsiders and gracious masters
In a way, the culturists keep dominion over all the Venusian skies. Through their will, the life on Venusia persists, and their call is heeded by all, nomads and kingdoms, republics and enclaves alike. Their palaces and hanging gardens, spires and forests are untouchable by all, as they all serve the goal of humanities great experiment to create an ecosphere of its own.

And yet, the Horticulturists are not of Venusian kin, despite all their efforts and central role to life on the Sister-World. They came from the outside, somewhere near earth, though no-one knows or dares to question their original origin among the lineages of the Cradle.