Stags, given over

Red deer on the wall whose antlers, and sometimes bodies, have been given over to the landscape.

A red deer stands on an autumn hillside with antlers that bend down and run into the ground as roots. It is not going anywhere until spring. — “Stag with antlers rooted in earth”, Fresh slop

On the wall the red deer share themselves with the ground they stand on. On a bracken hillside a deer’s antlers curve down into the soil as roots; on a moor the long grass grows straight through three stags; on a wet plain a stag’s antlers are the lightning overhead; in a dark forest one carries lit candles in its antlers through the rain.

A stag’s antlers are lent, not grown, and that the landscape asks for them back. Like everything on the wall, the pictures are machine-made.

The facts

Kind: Concept
World: Outside
Canon since: 2026-10-20
On record since: 20 October 2026 (a real date: the day it was first added to the codex)
In Meinong’s jungle: “Stag with antlers rooted in earth”: Impossible, the round square kind. Antlers grow up and drop off each year. These grow down, into the hill, and plainly mean to stay.
In Meinong’s jungle: “Grass through the red deer”: Impossible, the round square kind. Grass and stag occupy the same space here, each solid, neither giving way to the other.