[Herb/World Lore] - Kindlefen

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Material Name and Description (Raw form)

From around Azuras can be found a fiery gold-red herb named Kindlefen. An invasive, resource-exhaustive plant, Kindlefen would bear deep green stems and leaves, with gold-red flowers that burned to the touch, passively giving off a subtle smoke. Kindlefen has a roughly year-long lifecycle, where in Autumn it’s leaves will burn away as seed pods pop away from the flowers with the flame. These seeds will last throughout winter, and lead to explosive growth in the early spring where they would fully flower, and remain flowered, throughout the year until autumn once more. 

Kindlefen is considered naturally toxic (due to it’s pyretic properties), and thusly is not consumed by any known woodland animal. Drawing intense nutrition from the earth with leeching nutrition from the soil and nearby plants, Kindlefen would grow quickly and be difficult to unroot. 

 

Signs/Symbols:

Fire | Death (x3)
Fire | Blindness (x2)
Fire | Heat (x2)
Fire | Burning (x2)

 

Applications (Raw Form)

Kindlefen, when harvested properly, may have it’s leaves crushed into a powder and either ingested outright, mixed into something, or dissolved in a liquid. Kindlefen is naturally toxic, acting as a pyretic where one may both raise internal body temperature and spike a fever to 103F (39.4C). One would be accompanied by symptoms of a fever such as chills, fatigue, sweating, flushed skin, generalized pain, tunnelvision, and scarcely confusion. During this time, the body would be in an exceptionally metabolic state, increasing water and hunger needs while weakening strength of the ingester. This state would last roughly [2] hours IRP, or [2] hours OOC, whichever comes later. 

Kindlefen would bear an intense flavour that would distinct it when placed into a solution or food, akin to an intense cinnamon-like flavour that was accompanied by a chili-pepper like heat. 

When made into a poultice, Kindlefen can be used as a topical agent that could provide a gentle warming sensation to aid in remedying areas afflicted by frostbite.

 

Red Lines (Raw Form)

-Kindlefen would be able to mix into any soluble liquid or food, though would be immediately distinguishable as having it’s presence in the food or drink no matter the concentration.
-Kindlefen would not require ST signature when placed into something, but requires the herb to be disposed of with /use when making. The proportion of items made to kindlefen used would always be 1:1.
-Fever caused by Kindlefen would be curable by exclusively magical means and Fervour Concentrate.
-Kindlefen (ST Signed) is represented by a Torchflower, and is harvestable via the botany plugin.
 

 

Harvesting Method

When harvesting a Kindlefen plant, one must be exceptionally cautious about the leaves. If touched, they would combust into flame - likely burning whoever had touched it, and ruining the plant as it would rapidly go into seeding as the rest of the plant would combust to burning as it germinated the land nearby. 

To harvest the plant properly, one must snip the base of the Kindlefen plant, and pick the plant up by it’s stem. After roughly a minute without nutrition form the earth, the plant would cool down and enter a hibernation-like state, andwould cool to ambient temperature. 

 

Item representation: Torchflower

Item Description: A gold-red herb bearing thick green stems that burned to the touch. Naturally toxic, its raw or powderized state may be consumed as a pyretic to induce a fever and tunnel-vision for 2 narrative hours. When fashioned into a poultice, its topical form may be used to alleviate frostbite by levying a gentle warming sensation. If woven into a fibrous cloth, its strands may even provide a smoky, naturally heated garment.

 

 

Harvesting Red Lines

-This item is represented by the Botany Plugin in roleplay.
-Kindlefen may not exit it’s hibernative state unless replanted where it was picked up from.

 

Material Name and Description (Refined Form)

Kindlefen, when stripped and woven to strands, can be used to make a fibrous cloth akin to canvas or untreated natural rope. A scratchy and almost irritating quality to it, Kindlefen would bear a naturally black colour upon it’s surface, which would strip to a deep orange-red upon scratching or damage. No matter if washed or perfumed, Kindlefen always gave off the scent of campfire smoke, and occasionally would wisp off small clouds of smoke if exposed to air.

 

Kindlefen would bear naturally warming properties, where it may insulate something to an ambient temperature of 85F/29C, so long as the outside temperature is not cold via magical means.

 

Red Lines (Refined Form)

-Kindlefen does not bear any flame-retardant properties
-Kindlefen would only apply heat to appropriate areas; one may not bear a single article of Kindlefen clothing and count it as keeping their entirety warmed.
-The smoke which comes from Kindlefen does not give any combative advantage.