[Herb/World Lore] - Silvershade

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Material Name and Description (Raw form)

From around Azuras is there a sapphire blue flower known as Silvershade. A plant that has been native to the continent for centuries, stories tell of sailors who transported the dying species of plant from a continent distant upon Eos. Emerald green stalks sprout upward toward the Silvershade plant, known to flower and remain flowered nearly year-round. Cold to the touch, Silvershade is found in areas cooler than the surrounding climate, such as under rocks, overhangs, trees, and riversides. Becoming dormant and closing it’s flower buds in the summer due to the heat, Silvershade is a remarkably dainty and delicate plant that can prove extremely arduous to harvest. Growing often alone due to it’s fragile nature, Silvershade is, even in ideal conditions, a rare species near extinction.

 

Silvershade is considered naturally toxic (due to it’s hypothermic properties), and thusly is not consumed by any known woodland animal, though is often nested nearby during warmer months due to it’s cold aura. 

 

Signs/Symbols:

Water | Lethargy (x3)
Water | Poison (x2)
Water | Fear (x2)
Water | Dark (x2)

 

Applications (Raw Form)

Silvershade, when harvested properly, may have it’s leaves crushed into a powder and either ingested outright, mixed into something, or dissolved in a liquid. Silvershade is naturally toxic, acting as a hypothermic which would lower the peripheral body temperature significantly, withdrawing all heat of the body to the core. This would make one who ingests Silvershade to feel sluggish and slow, but far more steady as their metabolism is effectively halved in speed. 

Despite the associated toxicity, some effects of Silvershade are desirable. Whilst one would have movement at [Half pace], they would bear a steadiness in both focus and aiming that enhances aim to the target. Along with this, one would be undetectable with Heat-Sight as they blend with their surroundings, paired with a perfect stillness and silence that makes one harder to detect in darkness. At cost however, one’s reactions would be notably slower than the average descendant. These effects would last up to [2 IRP] or [2 OOC] hours, whichever comes later.

Silvershade would bear a unique texture and mouthfeel that would distinct it when placed into a solution or food, akin to a creamy vanilla that coated the mouth easily.

 

Red Lines (Raw Form)

-Silvershade 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.
-Silvershade would not require ST signature when placed into something, but requires the herb to be disposed of with /trash when making. The proportion of items made to Silvershade used would always be 1:1.
-Hypothermia caused by Silvershade would be curable by exclusively magical means and Fervour Concentrate.
-Silvershade (ST Signed) is represented by a Tube Coral Fan, and is harvestable via the botany plugin.
-Ingesting Silvershade would render one with slower reaction times, and movement that is halved in all speeds.
-Ingesting Silvershade would grant one the boons of enhanced accuracy, immunity to heat-sight, and are harder to detect in darkness.
-Being more difficult to detect in darkness and enhanced accuracy are honor-CRP bound, meaning they do not provide guaranteed hits or invisibility in low light by any means, and are merely a note for others in CRP/Events to take note of.

 

Harvesting Method

When harvesting a Silvershade plant, one must be cautious (due to it’s delicate nature) to carefully clip each floret of the plant with time between for the plant to recover. Given it’s delicate nature and sensitive germination technique, clipping a Silvershade growth can be a long, time consuming process that often frustrates a botanist. Frustratingly difficult to grow, and even more tedious to harvest. 

 

Item representation: Tube Coral Fan

Item Description: A delicate sapphire-blue flower with sprouting green stalks. Cold to the touch, this flower hides in cool, shadowy areas and avoids budding in the summer. Naturally toxic, its raw or powderized form may be consumed as a hypothermic to lower peripheral body temperature for 2 narrative hours. Albeit reducing the consumer to half-pace, this toxin can improve both steadiness and stillness and render its consumer undetectable to heat sight.

 

 

Harvesting Red Lines

-This item is represented by the Botany Plugin in roleplay.