Every compendium begins somewhere. This is where ours did. There is a particular kind of person who has always suspected that beauty and darkness were never actually opposites — that the two have simply been mistaken for enemies by people who never looked closely enough. If you are reading this, you are very likely that kind of person. Welcome. You are among your own. Edgy Root did not begin as a plan so much as a suspicion — the quiet, persistent feeling that the plant aisle