WILLOW (#10/31, #38/365) [OOTP IV]
Appearance: This tree grows up to twenty metres tall, but its trunk is usually twisted, cracked and ancient-looking, with gnarled roots grasping at dry land. Willows have stiff branches bearing long, straggling, sweeping leaves that brush across the surface of brooks, pools and rivers.
Distribution: Forests, marshes, river-banks and lake-shores across Titan.
Effects: Willow wood is used in construction, such as the crafting of baskets, bows, crossbows and wands. Certain entities such as Guardians of the Gate were known to use Willow trees as chosen sites for their Magic Gates. Willow Sap, if extracted correctly, has curative powers and will restore 2 STAMINA points if applied to wounds. It is also an ingredient in Willow Tea and Willow Cider.
Cost: City 4gp, Town 5gp, Village 6gp (per vial of sap)
Availability: Common
Further Notes: The richly fertile Vale of Willow, where some of the finest (and strangest-smelling) herbs in north-western Allansia grow (and also where the vineyards for Pale Willowsap wine (see Encyclopedia Arcana: Volume 1, p. 55), are to be found), is so-named for the profusion of Willow trees growing along the banks of the Whitewater River that flows through the valley. Willowbend, on the northwestern fringes of Scorpion Swamp, is similarly named for the Willows that grow throughout the town and along the Foulbrood River nearby. Willow is a common name for Elves, humans, and even horses, and the name of the Willow-Leaf Arrow, a specialized arrowhead used by the Samurai of Hachiman. Willow is related to Sallow-Seed (see The Titan Herbal, p 58), Silverleaf Willow (see p. XX), and the Willow Weird (see below).
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