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| The Verduran Colossus |
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Posted by: BigDrago53 - 05-04-2025, 10:10 PM - Forum: Lore Applications
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?? The Verduran Colossus
“Not all that walks on roots is of the forest. Some carry stars in their chests.”
—Elder Botanist Luren Thay, Encounters Beyond the Veinlands
? Summary
The Verduran Colossus is a legendary, plant-born tortoise-shaped behemoth, standing 50 feet tall and 70 feet long, dwelling deep in the mountainous regions of Grafangu and Neatapori. Made entirely of ancient trees, moss-covered stone, and living vines, the Colossus has no head—only a gaping, tunnel-like void at its front, within which floats a molten iron asteroid bearing a single glowing gemstone eye, suspended and guided by blue luminous energy. This being is believed to be older than the kingdoms, a living convergence of plant-life and star-metal, feeding not on soil, but on coal, which it consumes to fuel its mysterious movement and internal heat.
? Basic Description
Size: 50 ft tall, 70 ft long; slow-moving but unstoppable in stride.
Body: A mountainous shell composed of interwoven tree trunks, moss-draped stone, and living flora, with birds and insects making temporary homes in its canopy-shell.
Front Cavity: A deep tunnel-like opening where a metallic, semi-molten asteroid floats—its single gemstone "eye" rotating slowly, glowing violet-blue.
Suspension Field: A blue light (thought to be arcane or elemental in nature) holds the asteroid aloft and directs the Colossus's path like a beacon or sensory organ.
?️ Habitat
The Verduran Colossus wanders the high ridgelines, collapsed calderas, and basaltic crags of:
Grafangu’s Blackroot Alps.
Neatapori’s Broken Range: Especially near geothermal fissures.
It rarely descends into valleys, preferring elevations where coal-rich stone meets deep-rooted ancient vegetation. No one knows if it sleeps, or if its slow pace is its dreaming.
?? Properties & Behavior
Coal Consumption: Unlike herbivorous beasts, the Colossus burrows its front cavity into coal deposits, drawing the energy up into the asteroid’s core. The glowing eye intensifies as it feeds, releasing gentle tremors and thermal pulses.
Mobile Forest: Its shell supports an entire living biome. Flora growing on its back changes with elevation and temperature, suggesting climatic control or resonance.
Soundless Movement: Despite its massive form, it moves without footfalls. It causes tremors only when feeding or disturbed, otherwise gliding over the terrain as if partially weightless.
Ecosystem Restoration: Trails left behind often bloom with fast-growing plant life, rejuvenating stripped mines or scorched forests. Some scholars believe its steps awaken the land.
? Special Properties
Property
Description
Asteroid Core
Made of pre-Sangreal star-metal. Radiates heat and gravitational pulses. The gemstone acts as a sensory matrix, allowing the Colossus to "see" through terrain and emotion alike.
Gem-Eye of Kalmarith
Said to be a fragment of the Celestial Archon's gaze. When threatened, it flashes bright blue, releasing a pulse that disorients thought and freezes action in sentient beings.
Symbiotic Flora
The Colossus hosts sapient lichen, bioluminescent creepers, and air-purifying vines, some of which only grow on its body and are used in sacred medicine and memory rites.
Root-Sense Navigation
It does not see with eyes or hear with ears. It feels the pulse of root, rock, and resonance beneath the soil. It is drawn to coal by heat and emotional memory left in the stone.
Mystic Vitality
Cannot be harmed by fire or blade alone. Its living body reconstitutes over time, especially when in contact with raw coal or sacred ash.
⚠️ Legends & Beliefs
Called “The Walking Shrine” by Neatapori druids, who consider it a sacred beast of balance, walking the seam between life and combustion.
Grafangu myth says it was once a fallen star, broken in grief when its twin perished during the creation of the world.
Hunters and scholars alike claim that those who gaze too long into the gemstone eye may receive visions—or lose themselves in forgotten memory.
? Known Risks and Curiosities
Non-hostile, but territorial if surrounded or if coal is removed from nearby deposits it claims. Its eye-pulse can level small buildings if threatened.
Considered a natural spirit or divine custodian—both kingdoms enforce bans on attacking or mining near its path.
Alchemists and geomancers offer ritual coal sacrifices to draw its path closer for study, or to reclaim blighted land.
“When the stars fall, they burn. But when one takes root, it walks.”
—Inscription found on a weathered druidic tablet in the Blackroot Vault
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| Ashcricket of Grafangu and Neatapori |
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Posted by: BigDrago53 - 05-04-2025, 09:21 PM - Forum: Lore Applications
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“Where the mountain cracks and the coalsmoke sings, the Ashcricket waits with jaws of embered steel.”
—Old Neatapori Miner’s Warning
? Summary
The Ashcricket is a rare, car-sized subterranean insectoid creature found only in the volcanic and mountainous regions of Grafangu and Neatapori. Dwelling in the deep coal-veins and ash tunnels of the earth, it sustains itself on combustibles—particularly coal, charcoal, and sulfurous rock—which it both consumes and ignites internally, becoming a walking furnace. Regarded with a mix of fear and reverence, the Ashcricket is both predator and natural phenomenon.
? Basic Description
Size: Roughly the size of a small wagon or car (10–12 feet long)
Body: Segmented black exoskeleton streaked with glowing red fissures. Plates resemble volcanic rock fused with obsidian.
Legs: Six jointed limbs, barbed for digging and climbing, capable of incredible bursts of leaping power.
Eyes: Multifaceted and ember-red; capable of low-light vision and heat detection.
Mandibles: Serrated, glowing orange at the tips—superheated and capable of biting through stone and steel.
Internal Furnace: Visible through gaps in its thorax plates; glows white-hot after feeding.
?️ Habitat
The Ashcricket is native to mountainous volcanic zones, particularly:
Southern Grafangu: Especially the Ashneedle Peaks and collapsed lava tunnels known as the Embercoil.
Northern Neatapori: The Blackvein Mountains and the Fireroot Rift.
It burrows deep into coal seams and dormant volcanic veins, emerging only when hungry or disturbed. Sightings increase after rockslides, mining explosions, or volcanic tremors—which awaken dormant nests.
? Properties & Behaviors
Combustion Feeding: The Ashcricket consumes combustible minerals and ignites them in its internal furnace. The heat fuels its movement, reproduction, and bioluminescent mating displays.
Thermal Locomotion: Converts coal into raw heat energy, allowing for short-range flame-propelled leaps and rapid tunneling.
Flame Breath (Minor): When threatened, it can vent pressurized superheated gas from its spiracles, briefly igniting surrounding material. Not a true “flame breath,” but devastating in confined tunnels.
Molten Excretion: Leaves behind a trail of half-digested mineral slag—often mistaken for volcanic flow—used by alchemists as a source of rare trace elements.
Sound Emission: Emits a rhythmic crackling-chirp that resonates through rock. Often mistaken for tectonic movement or machinery by untrained ears.
? Special Properties
Coal-Seeking Instinct: Possesses a hyper-acute sense for carbon-rich materials. Some miners report it can detect coal seams before they're visible.
Heat Aura: Proximity to an active Ashcricket raises ambient temperature drastically. Tools become hot to the touch. Torches often sputter or extinguish due to local oxygen disruption.
Ashbirth: Rarely, when overfed, an Ashcricket will go dormant and give rise to a nesting mound—a hissing cocoon of slag and ash that hatches 2–3 emberlings after several weeks. These juvenile Ashcrickets glow brighter and move faster, though they lack full armor.
⚠️ Known Risks and Uses
Highly Dangerous to miners and travelers near active coal seams. Attacks are often mistaken for collapses or gas explosions.
Hunted only by experienced beastmasters using coal-bait traps.
Valuable Slag: Their waste material is used in alchemical forging, especially for heat-resistant alloys and incendiary powders.
Superstitions: Neatapori lore considers them “Children of the First Fire” and bad omens of deep-earth anger.
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| Race - Deep Kindred |
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Posted by: BigDrago53 - 05-04-2025, 12:23 AM - Forum: Lore Applications
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Deep Kindred
“To understand them is not to disarm them. It is to kneel beside a mountain and hear it speak.”
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In the caverns beneath, where light had never passed and the stones slept without dreams, he stooped and whispered into the bones of the world. With hands of light wrapped in patience, he shaped the Deep-Kindred—the burrowing wyrm.
The Flesh of Stone, the Blood of Trust
The Deep-Kindred are bipedal, humanoid wyrms the males standing between 11 and 13 feet tall and the females standing between 9 and 10 feet tall, broad-shouldered and thick-boned. Their silhouettes are unmistakable—part colossus, part monk, part forgotten god. To see one standing still is to mistake them for a statue; to see one move is to forget breathing.
Their skeleton is made of calcite-laced bone, veined with quartz filaments that conduct not only nerve signals but minute vibrations from the world around them. Musculature is dense and slow-burning, optimized for endurance rather than speed. Their strength is titanic—not in burst, but in persistence. A wyrm can dig through bedrock with bare hands and lift collapsed stone pillars from the ruins of old cathedrals. Their joints are reinforced with stone-hard cartilage and flexible silicate discs that shift slightly with emotional state—fear tightens them, calm relaxes them. Their skin is layered dermal armor, a composite of living tissue and embedded minerals.
Over the course of their life, their skin absorbs traces of the stone they live among—basalt, obsidian, limestone—becoming a map of their journey. In wyrms who remain aligned with Trust, their skin is a polished grey-blue, flecked with runes of bio-luminescence (a soft white or blue glow) which pulse gently during conversation or contemplation. Wither-Wyrms, having fallen into wrath and judgment, show blackened, jagged skin—cracked like volcanic stone, glowing faintly from the fire of the Heartstone within. Injury does not bleed easily. The skin seals itself through mineral coagulation, and scars remain forever, forming rune-like fissures that tell stories without words.
Eyes:
Deep-set and crystalline, layered like a geode. Each eye is capable of sensing thermal shifts, tremors, and moral incongruities (a kind of “truth-sight”).
They do not blink. They simply gaze, long and still.
Hearing:
Rather than ears, they possess internal resonance chambers in their collar and upper chest. These detect subterranean shifts, heartbeats, and changes in voice that mortals cannot perceive.
Smell:
Carried by vapor spiracles in the neck and jaw—these can detect mineral content, emotional pheromones, and even ancient decay.
Speech:
Wyrms speak not from the mouth but from a chest resonance chamber, where voice is formed like a slow bell tolling in stone. Their words reverberate through caves, metal, and dreams.
Brain:
Their neural tissue is intertwined with crystalline memory-strands. They do not forget. Memory is not stored—it is grown.
❖ The Heartstone At the center of every Deep-Kindred's chest, partially visible beneath translucent chest-plates, is the Heartstone: a bio-crystalline organ that regulates emotion, memory, and moral clarity.
It glows with resonance—blue for peace, white for solemnity, red-gold for wrath.
It responds not just to the wyrm’s own emotions but to those around them.
The white Heartstone only happens when the one of the prophesy is born.
The red Heartstone symbolizes someone with a sadistic mind with poor morals and a evil mind.
Wyrmlings are born about 3–4 feet tall, already able to walk within days, but mentally infantile. They reach maturity by age 60, and are trained by both parents in memory-discipline, stone-speech, and moral philosophy.
❖ Lifespan and Aging
Average lifespan: 900–1,200 years.
Old age is marked not by frailty, but by deepening resonance—their voices gain depth, their thoughts slow, their judgment sharpens.
Ancient wyrms develop rune-cracks across their skin and glowing rings around their Heartstone—signs of a life heavy with memory.
Some elder wyrms choose stone-sleep: a voluntary hibernation in caverns of silence, awaiting an age when trust might rise again.
✦ The Deep Mythos of the Kindred Below
"All that is hidden is not dark. All that burrows is not blind."
—Inscription from the Gate of Silor-Vaan
❖ The Song Beneath the Stone
In the beginning of the shaping of the world Sangreal, before the stars were counted and the mountains were named, there walked a lesser divinity called the Archon of Trust. He was not made by the demiurge who shaped the world’s bones, but born instead from a single act of sacred belief—a trusting hand offered in darkness, before even language, before even light.
The Archon was not strong in flame or storm. He ruled no sky, bore no spear. But he could not be lied to, and those who stood in his presence found themselves speaking plainly, or fleeing. From his breath came the Resonance, a living vibration that moved through rock and soul alike, sounding falsehood as a bell sounds a crack.
It was in the forgotten caverns of Sangreal’s belly that the Archon took clay and memory, iron and intention, and made the first of the Deep-Kindred—not as beasts, nor soldiers, but keepers. Their purpose was not conquest, but remembrance. Each was a living vow.
❖ The Covenant of Memory
The Deep-Kindred were gifted with the Heartstone, a luminous shard of the Archon's own soul, grown within their chests. It did not merely give life; it gave direction. In it was written the Law of Trust:
Speak only what you mean.
Remember all that is given to you.
Do not break the silence of stone lightly.
For many ages they served beneath the world, keeping the Resonance pure, crafting vaults of memory beneath the mountains, where the oaths of kings, the confessions of the wicked, and the final songs of dying races were stored in crystal.
They were known then as the Silorim, the Faithful Below.
❖ The Shape Beneath the Vow
As wrath grew, a hidden truth surfaced: the Deep-Kindred bore within their souls an ancient, deeper form—the Deep-Form, vast and burrowing, made for flightless survival, not reason. In ages past, before they had language, this was their shape. It was not sin—but it was danger without counsel.
Now, in pain, many returned to that shape. Some did so in battle. Others in grief. And some simply could no longer bear to be misunderstood.
The world above remembers these transformations not as sacred grief, but as monstrous terrors. The Deep-Kindred do not correct them. They simply withdraw deeper into the stone, where false stories cannot reach.
❖ Prophecy of the Stoneborn Heir
Some wyrms—especially the eldest—believe in a coming age when one of the Kindred, born from the womb of a Wither-Wyrm and a Faithful, will walk both worlds. This child, called the Stoneborn Heir, will bear a Heartstone neither blue nor red, but white, and their voice will cause even the Archon of Wrath to pause.
Until then, the Deep-Kindred do not forgive. But they do remember.
❖ Their Creed
Before each battle, at each birth, and after each betrayal, the Deep-Kindred speak these words:
“We are the silence that keeps the oath.
We are the hands that do not strike first.
We are the wrath that does not lie.
We are the stone that remembers.”
Note: One playing this race must make a special character request.
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| Roller-Poly |
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Posted by: __denby - 05-03-2025, 12:17 AM - Forum: Fauna
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Roller-Poly
"The Sulfur Burrower of Grafangu"
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Summary:
The Roller-poly is a colossal insect native to the high-altitude peaks of Grafangu. Characterized by its massive size, unique plough-shaped head, and affinity for sulfur, this creature plays a crucial role in the ecological and geological balance of its remote environment. Often traversing the mountainous terrain by rolling around on a giant granite sphere, the Roller-poly at times uses the sphere as a hunting tool.
Basic Description:
The Roller-poly, or Sulfur Burrower, named for its diet and subterranean habits, resembles an enormous beetle with armored plating and a forward-projecting, wedge-like head. Averaging the size of a small car, it uses its robust, scoop-shaped cranium to dig through rock and snow, exposing mineral veins. Its segmented body is coated in a waxy, heat-resistant shell, allowing it to navigate the harsh and acidic conditions of its niche environment.
Rarity: Ultra-Rare
Location:
This insect inhabits the high, wind-scoured ridges and fumarolic slopes of the Grafangu mountain range. These mountains, known for their frequent seismic activity and rich sulfur deposits, provide the ideal setting for the Roller-poly. The creatures are rarely seen below 3,000 meters elevation and are most active during the volcanic seasons when sulfur emissions are at their peak.
Properties:
- Size: Approximately 4 meters long and 2 meters wide
- Coloration: Deep slate-gray with yellow striations, helping it blend in with sulfur-coated rocks
- Diet: Primarily feeds on crystalline sulfur and other volcanic minerals
- Behavior: Solitary, slow-moving, and mostly nocturnal; known to emit a low, rumbling hum while burrowing
Special Properties: - Sulfur Metabolism: The Sulfur Burrower has a highly specialized digestive system that converts sulfur into a viscous, flammable mucus used to line its burrows and deter predators.
- Plough-Head Structure: Its head is reinforced with a dense, chitinous alloy, making it capable of cleaving through solid rock with ease.
- Thermal Resilience: Its body can withstand extreme temperature shifts, from glacial cold to geothermal heat, due to an adaptive bio-reactive shell that adjusts density based on thermal readings.
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| Leaping Bear |
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Posted by: __denby - 05-02-2025, 09:31 PM - Forum: Fauna
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Leaping Bears
“Naturally inclined to do harm. - Mayor Rudy Juliani”
Summary
Having evolved to hunt the megafauna of the tundra and savannah, packs of up to five leaping bears prowl within their territory for whatever prey may mistakenly find themselves in. They leap forth from heavy snow banks and talls grasses to ambush their prey to bring them to a swift end with a heavy bite to the neck. Leaping Bears due to their large size and predatory nature tend to range across many hundreds of square kilometers.
Basic Description
Leaping Bears as a whole tend to vary in length from twelve to even sixteen feet in length, sporting impressive claws made to rend and rip armored scales and tough hide from their prey. However they possess larger claws on their back feet, as well as stronger muscles in their back legs, to assist them in propelling themselves forward to pounce and ambush their prey. Leaping bears can bound at forty meters per second with two bounds before having to rest due to the stain put upon their powerful muscles. Due to this, this leads them to be cunning ambush hunters, quietly prowling to surround and finish a kill with their powerful bone-crushing jaws.
Rarity: Uncommon
Location:
All forms of the bears dig burrows and sleep in them in familial groups. These burrows can be hundreds of meters in depth - many bears will drag their prey and other objects of note into the burrow for storage and consumption. In the Sangreal, they typically can be found within Graeswange, and the Goedwig Gogleddol.
Properties:- They are similar to massive ferrets in a sense, appearing to be clumsy and maybe even goofy at a walking pace.
- The front claws of the leaping bears tend to be between two and four inches in length, with the back claws being from three and six inches in length.
Special Properties:- The furs of the Leaping Bears can be used as proper camouflage for the climate that they were hunted in. The Savannahs for the short-haired Leaping Bear, and the frozen Tundra for the long-haired Leaping Bear.
- The unique ligaments within the spine of the Leaping Bears could be made into impressive bow-strings, if properly lubricated.
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| Scerpian Vine |
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Posted by: __denby - 01-19-2025, 06:14 PM - Forum: Flora
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Scerpian Vine
“Oh Snail! Climb Mount Fuji; but slowly, slowly.” - Kobayashi Issa
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Summary:
A vine of immense strength, the Scerpian Vine acquires its name by the nature in which it seems to writhe and cling to the ground, in addition to its hard scale-like bark which covers the entirety of the mature vine, from root to flowering upper canopy. It has developed over time to be one of the hardiest and most difficult plants to rid oneself of, despite its relatively slow growth. Possessing a very dense barklike outer layer, it is flexible and resistant to chopping or slicing; while the interior of the vine is a tightly-woven network of stringy fibers that bind and often resist the blade of a saw with intense resolve. Anything short of a high-strength steel tool is unlikely to cut the vines without sustaining significant damage to themselves.
Basic Description:
Growing to incredible lengths through interconnected root networks, the Scerpian Vine is a menace, clambering across whatever lies in its path as though it were a mere assistance towards its eternal goal of acquiring more sunlight and soft soil. Possessing broad clover-like leaves that adorn the upper portions of the heavy vines, it is the nature of the vines to creep and spill wherever they may in order to absorb as much sunlight as possible. Vines closer to the ground tend to be heavier, thicker and of a stronger wood-like texture. When growing in clusters large enough, the vines nearest the center of the cluster tend to adopt a tree-like structure, often sinking a primary root ball, the vines at the core being more akin to branches than looser vines. At times, the Scerpian Vine forms nigh-impassable walls within their habitats, choking out other flora and fauna to such a degree that in some cases, the largest Scerpian clusters are essentially forbidding wastelands.
Rarity: Rare
Location:
Scerpian Vines tend to be found in low-lying areas, where moisture and humidity collect in large volumes, such as the floors of jungle canopies, wet coniferous forests and swampy lowlands. It is not found often, but where it is, it is growing in enormous clusters, typically consuming whatever structures, trees and rocks as it proceeds ever-onwards as a veritable force of nature.
Properties:
The Scerpian Vine grows slowly, but plods ever-onwards as a force of nature. It takes quite a lot of work to rid an area of the menace.
Possessing dense, flexible, wood-like bark, the plant is difficult to burn, and equally difficult to cut with anything but a hardened steel saw.
The interior of the Scerpian Vine is a dense and fibrous material, resisting to-and-fro cutting actions, typically having to be grasped by both ends and chopped through. The fibers can be equated to the strength of tightly-woven silk.
Special Properties:
Barring the relative strength of the Scerpian Vine, it possesses no known medicinal or alchemical properties.
The interior fibers of the vine are highly conducive to capillary flow.
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| Alabaster Moss |
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Posted by: __denby - 01-19-2025, 06:09 PM - Forum: Flora
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Alabaster Moss
“The dog that trots about, finds a bone.” - Golda Meir
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Summary:
Marring the landscape as a cruel bone-white scar, Alabaster Moss evokes a sense of otherworldly eeriness, a veritable tombstone to what was lost in the ancient past. Most often seen on ancient battlefields, the moss clings close to the ground, sprawling across the earth in a spider-like fashion; small and bulbous clumps of the growth standing no higher than six inches. Narrow reddish floral bodies poke sparsely from within the moss, giving it the faintest fleck of color amidst an otherwise blank sea of off-white.
As legend tells, the Alabaster Moss came about as a representation of the divine’s sorrow towards mortalkind; wars and conflicts spilling the blood of men and beast, piecemeal demolishing nature for the furtherment of the engines of war. This despair led to the birth of a marker, a tombstone provided by no man, and only set upon the realm by the extension of life herself. An alabaster color, prostrated eternally upon the ground where countless men fell, the moss serves as a gravemarker, to last till the very earth forgets the presence of those who died, and their bodies are all but a faded memory. It only grows in places of great loss, where the bodies of man and horse had piled high, and the ground was stained crimson by the ever-full coffers of war.
Basic Description:
Alabaster Moss is a low-lying ground shrub which takes the appearance of a lichen-like substance, possessing many spindly and bulbous branches that trail from the central stalk. Being an eerie bonelike color and harboring many small internal pockets, the best approximation to the Alabaster Moss is a surface-dwelling coral. Much akin to coral, the plant grows and branches in varied directions, lacking entirely in leaves, and instead being covered in thin, hairlike protuberances.
Rarity: Rare
Location:
Alabaster Moss is only known to grow in locations where battles, mass graves, and other horrific events have occurred. This is naturally due to the high concentration of calcium, iron and other nutrients that have found their way into the earth due to the volume of decomposites. It would be possible to grow the plant elsewhere, so long as the environment possesses an exceedingly high concentration of such elements.
Properties:
Spiny and lacking entirely in leaves, the plant is most similar to a coral.
It possesses very little in terms of nutrients, and animals tend to not eat it.
Alabaster Moss grows only in locations rich in decomposites, such as mass graves and battlefields.
Special Properties:
The hollows and pockets within the stalks of the Alabaster Moss contain relatively high concentrations of elemental oxygen and sodium, and is quite flammable.
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| Creamgrass |
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Posted by: __denby - 01-19-2025, 06:04 PM - Forum: Flora
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Creamgrass
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” - Orson Welles
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Summary:
A rapidly-growing and rather hardy plant, Creamgrass mirrors most attributes of dense field grasses, bearing lengthy seed bundles atop the rather dense brush-growth below. Formed of a very fibrous and hollow reed-like stalk, Creamgrass retains a very viscous sap-like liquid within the hollow stalks during the wetter months of the savannah and grasslands in which it grows. This liquid moves very slowly and possesses a rather sweet and honey-like odor, being roughly the appearance of a heavy cream; such is the origin of the plant’s name.
Basic Description:
A hardy and tall plant, Creamgrass grows in large clumps that cluster around a central root bundle, typically reaching heights up to five feet at the end of the whitish-yellow seed bundles. Widely spread leaves and sprouts grow horizontally from the base of the plant, giving it a rather bushlike appearance before the development of the flowering buds. Often seen being munched upon by large ruminants and other herbivores of varied grasslands, the plant is a common sight amongst grazing fields. Most shepherds and roaming cultures see the Creamgrass plant as a boon beyond any other due to the high nutritional content for themselves, and their animals.
Rarity: Common
Location:
Creamgrass is found in generally any location with soft, damp soil that has not been tilled actively by farms and civilization. Most often seen in clusters across open savannahs and grasslands, the Creamgrass can essentially grow anywhere the seeds are carried.
Properties:
A hardy plant with tubular reed-like stalks.
It possesses a creamlike sap within the stalks.
It grows nearly anywhere that grasslands exist in plenty.
Special Properties:
The cream-like substance within the plant’s tubular stalks is incredibly high in calories from fats and carbohydrates.
High in vitamins and minerals, it is a full-spectrum food; albeit not necessarily filling.
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| Snailberry Bush |
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Posted by: __denby - 01-19-2025, 06:01 PM - Forum: Flora
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Snailberry Bush
“There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.” - Kristen Cashore
Summary:
The Snailberry Bush acquired such a strange name due to the odd properties of the juices of the berry. Being inedible in its entirety and possessing rather sharp thorns, the berries are rather high in tannin and stranger juices that lead to rather curious changes to the scabbing action of wounds. Allegedly discovered by accident when a sad sod cut himself upon the thorns of the Snailberry Bush by falling off of his horse and into a clutch of them, a strange story made the rounds at his local alehouse. The poor man claimed that he emerged from the bushes covered in lacerations yet not profusely bleeding as one would expect. Of course, the cuts still hurt like the dickens! Beyond this obvious rumor, believed only by practitioners of witchy brews, not even goats will eat the plant due to the semi-toxic nature of the berries.
Basic Description:
Rather unappealing in nature, the Snailberry Bush is a sprawling and thorny shrub that possesses broad, green, oak-shaped leaves. Scattered throughout the bush are clusters of small and squishy red berries, often likened to the color of freshly-let blood, though the berries tend to associate rather nearby the lengthy thorns that grow throughout the plant as a defense mechanism. Snailberry bushes possess sharp and rigid thorns made of a hardened, wood-like material that range from one inch to three inches in length which easily penetrate the skin of an unguarded hand, or the very body of a man who falls into the bush, as the rumor suggests. It also possesses a very iron-rich, almost acrid smell that comes from the berries, typically scaring away any birds that might want a snack.
Rarity: Rare
Location:
The Snailberry Bush is by no means a common appearance, it’s rarity caused mostly by the proficient use of natural defense mechanisms causing the plant itself to have a very poor distribution of seeds and generally being a nuisance. Farmers burn it, animals refuse to eat it, birds refuse to make their nests in it, and the broad leaves and thick sprawling nature of the plant causes the seeds from dried berries to not be carried far by the wind. All of these situations combined have pushed the Snailberry Bush to near extinction, making it a rare sight. A hardy specimen, surely, but so hardy that it has stifled its own ability to procreate across the land. When it can be found, it is typically growing in rich, loamy soil, and at times springs up in and around abandoned farmland or freshly graveled roadways due to the presence of horse manure and the ilk. Acquiring seeds from dried berries and planting them elsewhere is not difficult, as the plant is quite capable of growing almost anywhere rich soil may be found.
Properties:
An incredibly hardy plant, the Snailberry Bush is heavily thorned and sprawling.
The bushes' thorns are between one inch to three inches in length and very hard.
The berries are mildly toxic and possess a strong acrid odor, typically warding off birds and small animals.
The berries are small and squishy, having the coloration of freshly-let blood.
It possesses broad, heavy leaves which tend to guard the wind from passing through the plant at any quick speed.
The Snailberry bush is rare due to having been pushed to near extinction by farmers, and the prohibitive nature of its defense mechanisms. It is not actually that difficult to grow, but takes some time to reach maturity.
Special Properties:
The berries are high in tannin, giving the juices natural astringent and cleansing properties, as well as the capability to tan leathers.
The berries also possess a strange clotting agent which promotes the growth of lymph scabbing, sealing small and medium wounds quickly with a flexible and rigid scab, generally textured much like a snail’s shell; hence the name.
Eating the berries causes intense abdominal pain due to the tannin content, and if consumed in large enough volumes, can cause liver damage.
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