DEVIL'S IVY (#7/28, #7/365) [TTHA]
Appearance: This is a robust thick-stemmed climbing vine with large, yellow-green heart-shaped leaves and large white lily-like flowers.
Distribution: Plains, forests, hills across the Old World.
Effects: Devil’s Ivy is covered in tiny poisonous spines. Anyone touching it must Test their Luck, or be rendered unconscious for 1-6 minutes and lose 1-3 STAMINA points. One vine can be pulped down, through careful use of gloves, to create enough poison for a Vial of Devilry, which, when ingested or applied to a weapon, causes effects identical to touching plant as per above.
Cost: City 20gp, Town 25gp, Village 30gp (per vial)
Availability: Common
Further Notes: Devil’s Ivy grows all over the Northside wall of the cityport of Khare, as well as the North Gate itself, preventing incursions by nomads and bestial races from the Baklands.
DOOM SEED (#8/28, #8/365) [TTHA]
Appearance: This is a low-lying herb or bush, with rounded bright green leaves, small white lamp-like flowers, and bulbous green seed-pods.
Distribution: Mountains, hills and plains across northern Allansia.
Effects: While the plant itself is relatively innocuous, the large shiny black seeds it produces can be ground down to create a vial of strong poison, with enough for one application. If applied to a weapon it will do an extra 2-7 STAMINA points of poison damage for one hit only. The sticky black paste is difficult to add to food or drink without arousing suspicion, but if ingested, also causes the loss of 2-7 STAMINA points.
Cost: City 10gp, Town 12gp, Village 14gp (per vial)
Availability: Common
Further Notes: The Doom Seed poison is commonly used by Mountain Elves, Northmen, Barbarians and other people of the cold wilderlands, who smear it on their darts and arrowheads to use as contact venom.
GISHAM TREE (#9/28, #9/365) [TTHA]
Appearance: This is a medium-sized tree with a pale brown trunk, large green oval-shaped leaves and white-pink flowers.
Distribution: Plains, forests and hills across Titan’s warmer regions.
Effects: The leaf of the Gisham Tree, when properly enchanted with white-gold dust, can be used to create an alternative Lucky Charm, with identical effects to that of the original (see Advanced Fighting Fantasy, p. 147), except that its effects last for only 3-18 days.
Cost: City 55gp, Town 60gp, Village 75gp (per Charm)
Availability: Common
Further Notes: The use of Gisham Tree leaves to create Lucky Charms has led to an explosive illicit trade in fake charms featuring leaves of the tree simply painted gold. This trend is particularly prevalent in the cityport of Khare and other settlements across Kakhabad.
GLOSSY GREENLEAF (#10/28, #10/365) [TTHA]
Appearance: This plant ranges from bush-size to tree-size, with a twisted black trunk, large glossy broad green leaves, a white lily-like flower, and green maize-like fruit.
Distribution: Forests and jungles across Titan.
Effects: The fruit of the Glossy Greenleaf plant is edible to humans, who gain +1 STAMINA point if a bag of the fruit is eaten. However, it is poisonous to cats and dogs, who will lose -1 STAMINA point if they consume fooding containing this fruit.
Cost: City 5sp, Town 4sp, Village 3sp (per bag)
Availability: Common
Further Notes: Glossy Greenleaf plants are food for Chestrap Beasts (see Out of the Pit, p. 28)
HAWTHORN (#11/28, #11/365) [TTHA]
Appearance: This is a shrub or small tree with dull brown bark, lots of sharp thorns, dark green many-lobed leaves, round white flowers and inedible dark red berry-like fruit.
Distribution: Forests, hills and plains across Titan.
Effects: The wood of the Hawthorn can be used to make wands, walking sticks, staves, stakes and other such items. It is thus a common component when constructing and enchanting various magic items. A Focus Staff made from Hawthorn provides a +2 spellcasting bonus, but it takes four days of meditation and preparation to endow a staff with these powers. In addition, if the Hawthorn Focus Staff is destroyed or lost, the spellcaster can only endow a new focus with powers at least two months after they lost the last one.
Cost: City 10gp, Town 6gp, Village 2gp (per staff)
Availability: Common
Further Notes: The magic Skull Staves used by the evil wizards called Death Lords were known to be made from Hawthorn.
SILVER BIRCH (#12/28, #12/365) [TTHA]
Appearance: This is a medium-sized gnarled tree with scraggly triangular leaves and peeling scaly silver bark.
Distribution: Woodlands, forests, hills and wildernesses across Titan.
Effects: The gum and bark of the Silver Birch can be used as a makeshift tinderbox for starting fires, with one use only. One tree tends to yield 1-6 clumps of useable agglomerations of gum and bark.
Cost: City 5sp, Town 4sp, Village 3sp (per clump)
Availability: Uncommon
Further Notes: Silver Birch is obviously related to the Birch tree (see The Titan Herbal, p. 21).
WHITELEAF (#13/28, #13/365) [TTHA]
Appearance: This is a tall spindly tree with a black trunk and long white leaves, whose strange globular white fruit hangs in bunches close to the ground.
Distribution: Forests, plains and hills across Titan.
Effects: Sometimes mistakenly called the Goodberry or the Sweetfruit, the actual fruit of the Whiteleaf tree can be eaten and restores 2 STAMINA points, however only one fruit can be eaten per meal as they are extremely filling. Anyone who persists in eating two or Whiteleaf fruits in succession will make themselves rapidly sick, losing 2 STAMINA points from stomach cramps and vomiting.
Cost: City 7sp, Town 5sp, Village 3sp (per fruit)
Availability: Uncommon.
Further Notes: Fully grown Whiteleaf trees are known habitat of the gargantuan bat species known as the Nycterin (see Return to the Pit, pp. 141-142). Whiteleaf is also a common name among Wood Elves.
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