Flora & Forage of Alven'Nathiss

Alven'Nathiss contains a wide range of useful plants, fungi, foods, fibers, woods, and other biological resources shaped by the shared maritime environment of the archipelago and centuries of cultivation.

The four principal islands represented here are Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, and Ael'delar. Many species occur across several islands where suitable habitat continues, while others remain associated with particular forests, wetlands, coasts, gardens, or cultivated districts.

A material is listed only once even when it occurs on several islands. Forage Frequency describes how likely a wild material is to be encountered within suitable habitat. Cultivated crops, managed timber, and restricted sources use Availability instead where ordinary foraging would be misleading.

The Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Exceptional classifications describe overall catalogue availability. Local abundance can differ considerably within a material's established habitat.

Herbs, Fungi & Botanical Materials

The table below provides a quick reference for the established tracked botanical materials of Alven'Nathiss.

Material	Catalogue Rarity	Value	Material Type	Properties	Affinity
Bluewake	Common	1 gp	Reagent	None	None
Glimmerleaf	Common	1 gp	Reagent	Preservative, Waterproofing	None
Lunethistle	Common	2 gp	Reagent	Toxic	None
Quillflax	Common	5 gp	Fiber	Retentive	None
Rainleaf	Common	1 gp	Reagent	Medicinal	None
Redbriar Root	Common	3 gp	Reagent	Medicinal, Antitoxic	None
Chimewood	Uncommon	8 gp	Wood	Resonant	None
Chordvine	Uncommon	8 gp	Component	Resonant	Fey
Duskmoss	Uncommon	2 gp	Reagent	Medicinal, Absorbent	None
Goldthread Fungus	Uncommon	4 gp	Reagent	Binding, Medicinal	None
Ilari Dewleaf	Uncommon	6 gp	Reagent	Stabilizing	Fey
Moonfern	Uncommon	5 gp	Reagent	Restorative	None
Moorlint	Uncommon	4 gp	Fiber	Binding	None
Silverturn	Uncommon	6 gp	Reagent	Divinatory	Fey
Stonewort	Uncommon	1 gp	Reagent	None	None
Tallowcap	Uncommon	3 gp	Reagent	Waterproofing	None
Thelaran Keelwood	Uncommon	8 gp	Wood	Waterproofing	None
Thrumcap	Uncommon	4 gp	Reagent	Resonant	None
Windlace	Uncommon	6 gp	Fiber	Conductive	None
Moonbriar	Rare	8 gp	Reagent	Divinatory	None
Pearldrop Vine	Rare	10 gp	Reagent	Amplifying	Fey
Rootmantle	Rare	10 gp	Reagent	Regulating	Fey

Common

Bluewake

Regions: Ael'eris (selected sheltered lagoons and inlets)
Forage Frequency: Common within established lagoon colonies
Tracked Quantity: 1 jar
Value: 1 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: None

Short Description: Bluewake is a microscopic green-blue organism found in some of Ael'eris's sheltered lagoons. Dense colonies produce a cool blue-green phosphorescence when disturbed, leaving brief trails of light behind fish, oars, waves, or people moving through the water.

Wild: Bluewake occurs in sheltered lagoons and shallow inlets with suitable salinity, mineral content, circulation, and local ecology. By daylight, dense growth appears as a faint green-blue haze suspended in the water. After dark, movement causes brief flashes of light.

Recovery: A healthy surface colony can normally be collected without a check when safely accessible. Fine cloth, shallow pans, or closely woven nets can be used to concentrate the organisms from the surrounding water.

Stored: Fresh Bluewake is transported in sealed containers filled with lagoon water and kept cool and dark. Untreated colonies lose much of their useful activity after several days.

Direct Use: None. A fresh jar may shimmer when shaken, but the light is too faint and short-lived to provide useful illumination.

Common Crafting Uses: Luminous pigments, decorative glass, glazes, theatrical paints, fine inks, low-light markings, harbor ornament, and decorative boat finishes.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula requiring Bluewake, one jar provides 1 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Glimmerleaf

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Common in suitable woodland
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 1 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Preservative, Waterproofing

Short Description: Glimmerleaf is a broad-leafed woodland plant named for the pale flecks scattered across its dark green leaves. These flecks are deposits of natural wax.

Wild: Glimmerleaf grows through broken woodland, clearings, shaded hedgerows, path edges, and other places where daylight reaches the forest floor.

Stored: Fresh leaves are usually bundled or pressed before processing. Much of their useful wax remains after drying.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Waterproofing compounds, preservative coatings, sealants, treated paper or cloth, protective oils, and similar preparations.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 1 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Lunethistle

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Common
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 2 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Toxic

Short Description: Lunethistle is a blue-purple thistle with rigid barbs and intensely bitter sap. The sap is mildly irritating in its natural state but contains compounds that become more useful when concentrated.

Wild: Lunethistle grows along road verges, clearings, disturbed slopes, field margins, grazed ground, settlement edges, and other places where soil is regularly disturbed.

Stored: Harvested stems are split and dried, or their sap is collected in small sealed containers before it thickens.

Direct Use: None. Untreated sap is irritating rather than dangerously poisonous.

Common Crafting Uses: Basic poisons, pest-control mixtures, irritant compounds, and preparations requiring a mild botanical toxin.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 2 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Quillflax

Regions: Ael'tharis (Lathorien Fields)
Availability: Common in specialist cultivation
Tracked Quantity: 1 bundle of mature dried stalks
Value: 5 gp
Material Type: Fiber
Properties: Retentive

Short Description: Quillflax is a cultivated fiber plant with slender grey-green stalks containing exceptionally fine pale inner fibers. Once prepared, those fibers accept inks, dyes, alchemical treatments, and delicate magical inscriptions with unusually little spreading or distortion.

Cultivated: Quillflax is grown in specialist plots throughout parts of the Lathorien Fields. Generations of cultivation have favored long fibers, consistent texture, and the ability to retain fine applied patterns.

Processing: Mature stalks are dried and soaked before their pale inner fibers are separated, washed, and combed. The resulting fiber can be spun into thread or reduced into pulp for paper.

Stored: Mature stalks should be kept dry. Separated fiber stores well until it is spun, pulped, pressed, or otherwise worked.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Fine plant-fiber paper, Spell Scroll substrates, spellbook sheets, archival paper, specialist bookbinding, warding strips, magical diagrams, component labels and wrappings, and fine thread.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one bundle provides 5 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Rainleaf

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Common
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 1 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Medicinal

Short Description: Rainleaf is a low-growing plant with broad dark-green leaves and a naturally waxed upper surface. Its mild astringent compounds are useful in simple medicinal preparations.

Wild: Rainleaf grows around wet pasture, drainage channels, irrigation ditches, roadside verges, stream margins, damp hedgerows, and similar moist ground.

Stored: Leaves are cleaned and dried shortly after gathering.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Medicinal washes, poultices, skin preparations, and other mild treatments.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 1 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Redbriar Root

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Common
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 3 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Medicinal, Antitoxic

Short Description: Redbriar Root is a tough reddish root found beneath thorny growth and along disturbed woodland margins. Its flesh is intensely bitter and contains compounds used in medicinal and antitoxin preparations.

Wild: Redbriar grows beneath bramble, thorn hedges, scrub, forest edges, old paths, field margins, roadsides, and other disturbed ground.

Stored: Cleaned Redbriar is normally kept as dried root segments or coarse shavings.

Direct Use: None. Untreated or poorly prepared root can cause nausea and stomach irritation.

Common Crafting Uses: Antitoxins, medicinal tinctures, and preparations intended to counter or manage ingested poisons.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 3 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Uncommon

Chimewood

Regions: Ael'nareen (Thalithren Forest)
Availability: Managed source; suitable instrument-grade timber is Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 billet
Weight: Approximately 5 lb.
Value: 8 gp
Material Type: Wood
Properties: Resonant

Short Description: Chimewood is pale, close-grained timber marked by fine darker growth lines. Properly seasoned wood carries vibration cleanly while producing little unwanted rattle or distortion.

Managed Source: Chimewood grows through suitable parts of the Thalithren Forest. The trees themselves are not especially rare, but instrument-grade timber generally comes from mature, slowly grown trunks or substantial limbs.

Important stands are managed, with usable timber commonly coming from selective cutting, storm-felled trees, or damaged limbs.

Stored: Fresh Chimewood requires slow seasoning. Properly seasoned billets remain stable under ordinary conditions but should be protected from prolonged saturation.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Musical instruments, sounding boards, resonant chambers, acoustic housings, specialist signaling devices, magical instruments, and Formulae involving sound, vibration, resonance, or thunder.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one billet provides 8 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Chordvine

Regions: Ael'delar, Ael'tharis
Availability: Uncommon in specialist cultivation
Tracked Quantity: 1 mature pod
Value: 8 gp
Material Type: Component
Properties: Resonant
Affinity: Fey

Short Description: Chordvine is a perennial climbing plant with dark blue-green leaves, small pale flowers, and narrow layered pods. Mature pods contain delicate internal ribs supporting thin membranes that respond to structured magical energy with unusually consistent vibration once properly prepared.

History and Cultivation: Chordvine originated in the Feywild and was among the specialist botanical stock brought by the Sera'drin during the Second Elven Exodus. The earliest surviving cultivation was established on Ael'delar, with later cultivation spreading to specialist gardens and institutions on Ael'tharis.

The vine remains more difficult to propagate than most ordinary crops.

Collection: Mature pods are harvested shortly after their outer shell begins drying but before they split naturally.

Stored: Pods are dried whole in a low-humidity environment and can remain useful for years when protected from crushing, moisture, and excessive heat.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Arcane focusing assemblies, resonant housings, warding instruments, magical tuning devices, enchanted musical instruments, precision arcane apparatus, and Formulae requiring a Component that responds consistently to structured magical energy.

Its Fey Affinity can satisfy an appropriate Recipe or Formula requiring a Fey-aligned Component.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one mature pod provides 8 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Duskmoss

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 2 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Medicinal, Absorbent

Short Description: Duskmoss is a dense dark violet-brown moss found on damp stone, fallen timber, and shaded roots. Its thick growth readily absorbs moisture and contains mild medicinal compounds.

Wild: Duskmoss favors cool, damp woodland, particularly stream edges, exposed roots, shaded stone, and persistently moist fallen timber.

Stored: Harvested moss is cleaned and pressed into dry pads or packed loosely into sealed jars.

Direct Use: As a Utilize action, one portion can be used as an emergency wound dressing to stabilize a creature at 0 Hit Points without a Wisdom (Medicine) check. The portion is consumed.

Common Crafting Uses: Healer's Kits, wound dressings, medicinal salves, absorbent packing, and preparations intended to absorb fluids.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 2 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Goldthread Fungus

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 4 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Binding, Medicinal

Short Description: Goldthread Fungus spreads through damp fallen timber and rich woodland soil in fine yellow-gold strands. Fresh cultures can produce a faint natural glow and contain compounds valued as medicinal additives and alchemical binders.

Wild: Goldthread grows beneath loose bark, within decaying logs, and through rich soil around fallen timber in moist mature woodland.

Stored: It is normally kept slightly damp in sealed jars or packed with a small amount of the soil or wood on which it grew.

Direct Use: None. Fresh cultures can be faintly visible in darkness but do not provide useful illumination.

Common Crafting Uses: Medicinal tinctures, alchemical binders, and preparations requiring ingredients to remain evenly suspended or properly combined.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 4 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Ilari Dewleaf

Regions: Ael'nareen (Ilari Pools and immediately connected spring-fed woodland)
Forage Frequency: Uncommon within its restricted habitat
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 6 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Stabilizing
Affinity: Fey

Short Description: Ilari Dewleaf is a low, soft-leaved plant growing along the damp margins of the Ilari Pools and nearby spring-fed ground. Its rounded leaves remain cool and pliant after being cut and release clear, slightly viscous moisture when gently crushed.

Wild: Ilari Dewleaf occurs almost exclusively around the Ilari Pools and a small number of immediately connected streams and seepages. Reliable populations have proven difficult to establish elsewhere.

Stored: Fresh portions should be wrapped in damp cloth or moss and kept cool. Under good conditions they remain suitable for botanical preservation for about 3 days.

For longer storage, the leaves can be reduced to a translucent greenish paste. The paste remains useful for crafting but loses the living responsiveness needed for Direct Use.

Direct Use: A fresh portion can be wrapped around or pressed against one freshly cut plant specimen, graft, root cluster, or other delicate piece of living botanical material no larger than Tiny.

For the next 24 hours, ordinary wilting and drying do not cause the specimen to become nonviable. Another fresh portion can extend the protection for an additional 24 hours while the specimen remains viable.

The effect does not reverse existing deterioration or restore dead tissue.

Common Crafting Uses: Botanical preservation preparations, grafting compounds, transplanting mixtures, stabilization of delicate herbal ingredients, and Formulae requiring living botanical material to remain viable during processing.

Its Fey Affinity can satisfy an appropriate Recipe or Formula requiring a Fey-aligned Reagent.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 6 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Moonfern

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 5 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Restorative

Short Description: Moonfern is a pale silver-green fern found in damp shaded woodland. Its fronds remain noticeably cool after being cut and contain bitter oils used in restorative preparations.

Wild: Moonfern grows near streams, hollows, exposed roots, and other sheltered woodland where moisture persists.

Stored: Dried Moonfern becomes pale grey-green and slightly brittle but retains its useful qualities when properly sealed.

Direct Use: During a Short Rest, a creature can use one portion while tending its wounds. Once during that rest, when the creature spends a Hit Point Die to regain Hit Points, it can reroll that die and use either result.

The portion is consumed. A creature can benefit from only one portion during the same Short Rest.

Common Crafting Uses: Healing potions, restorative salves, and preparations concerned with wounds, swelling, physical strain, and recovery.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 5 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Moorlint

Regions: Ael'nareen (northern and central moorland and rough uplands)
Forage Frequency: Uncommon in suitable moorland and upland
Tracked Quantity: 1 bundle
Value: 4 gp
Material Type: Fiber
Properties: Binding

Short Description: Moorlint is a wiry upland plant whose mature stems contain long pale fibers that remain flexible while stretching very little under tension.

Wild: Moorlint grows through rough upland ground and open moor where soil is thin but not permanently waterlogged.

Stored: Mature stems are dried before being soaked and worked to separate the useful fibers.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Bowstrings, fishing line, fine cordage, strong stitching, lashings, reinforced bindings, and other low-stretch Fiber applications.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one bundle provides 4 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Silverturn

Regions: Ael'tharis (deeper Mirathril Woods)
Forage Frequency: Uncommon within suitable deeper woodland
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 6 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Divinatory
Affinity: Fey

Short Description: Silverturn is a low woodland perennial with dark green leaves and unusually pale, almost silvery undersides. Where the relationship between the Material Plane and Feywild becomes unusually close, the leaves gradually rotate until their pale undersides face upward.

Wild: Silverturn grows in older, less disturbed parts of the Mirathril Woods where Fey influence is stronger than in the surrounding countryside.

Stored: Fresh stems should be kept damp and shaded if their sensitivity is to be preserved. Once dried, the leaves lose their ability to turn but retain enough Fey resonance for appropriate crafting.

Direct Use: A creature can place one fresh portion on damp soil or another natural surface and leave it undisturbed for 1 minute.

If the boundary between the Material Plane and Feywild is unusually thin within 30 feet, the leaves slowly rotate until their pale undersides are exposed.

This reveals only that unusually strong Feywild correspondence is present nearby. It does not reveal direction or distance or determine whether passage between the planes is possible.

After use, the portion loses its sensitivity.

Common Crafting Uses: Divinatory preparations concerned with the Feywild, instruments used to study planar correspondence, wards and Formulae involving Fey Crossings, and specialist preparations that react to changes in the Material-Fey boundary.

Its Fey Affinity can satisfy an appropriate Recipe or Formula requiring a Fey-aligned Reagent.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 6 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Stonewort

Regions: Ael'nareen (Eir'thelas and other suitable mineral-rich streams)
Forage Frequency: Uncommon within suitable mineral-rich waterways
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 1 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: None

Short Description: Stonewort is a coarse grey-green aquatic growth found in mineral-rich water. Mature stems accumulate pale mineral deposits and feel rough and gritty.

Wild: Stonewort grows in cold streams, spring channels, seepage pools, drainage courses, and other waterways carrying substantial dissolved minerals.

Stored: Gathered Stonewort is rinsed, dried, and normally crushed before use.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Mineral washes, ore and crystal preparation, assay mixtures, and processes used to expose mineral residue or contamination.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 1 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Tallowcap

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Uncommon in suitable wet woodland
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 3 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Waterproofing

Short Description: Tallowcap is a broad grey-brown fungus whose flesh contains a thick water-resistant oil.

Wild: It favors waterlogged fallen timber, old stumps, rotting fence posts, damp wooden structures, and other decaying wood that remains wet for long periods.

Stored: Fresh caps keep for several days when cool. Their oils are normally rendered for longer storage.

Direct Use: Over 10 minutes, one fresh portion can be rubbed thoroughly into one Small or smaller item made primarily from leather, cloth, or unfinished wood. Until the end of the next Long Rest, the treated surface sheds ordinary rain and splashing water rather than readily soaking through.

The treatment does not make the item watertight or protect it from immersion or damaging liquids. The portion is consumed.

Common Crafting Uses: Waterproofing compounds, leather dressings, treated packs and cases, protective wood coatings, and weather-resistant cloth treatments.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 3 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Thelaran Keelwood

Regions: Ael'delar (western wooded hills and managed groves near the Alariel Shore)
Availability: Managed source; suitable mature timber is Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 billet
Weight: Approximately 5 lb.
Value: 8 gp
Material Type: Wood
Properties: Waterproofing

Short Description: Thelaran Keelwood is a close, slightly interlocking hardwood containing natural oils that greatly reduce how readily the timber absorbs water. Properly seasoned heartwood remains unusually stable through repeated cycles of wetting and drying.

Managed Source: Keelwood grows naturally through parts of Ael'delar's western wooded hills and is also maintained near the Alariel Shore. Established stands are managed through selective cutting, replanting, pruning, and long-term forestry.

Stored: Fresh timber must be seasoned slowly before demanding craft use. Properly seasoned Keelwood requires no unusual storage.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Boat planking, keels and structural members, oars, rudders, dock fittings, sluice components, water-exposed architectural woodwork, durable containers, and other construction regularly subjected to moisture.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one billet provides 8 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Thrumcap

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 4 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Resonant

Short Description: Thrumcap is a pale soft-bodied fungus whose flexible flesh is unusually sensitive to vibration and visibly trembles in response to nearby sound.

Wild: Thrumcaps grow in small clusters on rotting logs and damp deadwood in older shaded woodland.

Stored: Fresh specimens are usually kept in light brine to preserve their flexibility.

Direct Use: A creature can press one fresh portion against a door, wall, floor, or similar solid surface. The creature has Advantage on the next Wisdom (Perception) check it makes within 1 minute to hear sounds transmitted through that surface.

After the check, or when the minute ends, the portion loses its useful sensitivity.

Common Crafting Uses: Acoustic membranes, vibration-sensitive mechanisms, sound-transmitting or sound-dampening preparations, and Formulae involving sound, resonance, or thunder.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 4 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Windlace

Regions: Ael'tharis (exposed northern coast and suitable rocky headlands), Ael'nareen (northern and eastern exposed coasts), Ael'eris (Eren'thiel Cliffs), Ael'delar (Lerin'thalor Cliffs and suitable exposed eastern coast)
Forage Frequency: Uncommon within suitable coastal habitat
Tracked Quantity: 1 bundle
Weight: Approximately 1 lb.
Value: 6 gp
Material Type: Fiber
Properties: Conductive

Short Description: Windlace is a low coastal perennial whose mature runners contain long inner fibers threaded with minute crystalline mineral deposits. Properly prepared, these fibers carry magical energy unusually well while remaining flexible.

Wild: Windlace grows on exposed rocky headlands, coastal slopes, outer shores, and cliffs above the regular reach of the tide.

Stored: Mature runners should be kept reasonably dry after harvesting. Precision uses commonly require the inner fibers to be processed into seawire.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Conductive cordage, specialist instruments, artificer assemblies, magical signaling equipment, nautical instruments, and flexible connections within arcane devices.

Raw Windlace provides 6 gp of Ingredient Credit where an appropriate Recipe or Formula accepts unprocessed Conductive Fiber.

Rare

Moonbriar

Regions: Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Availability: Rare managed or cultivated source; not ordinary regional forage
Tracked Quantity: 1 flowering sprig
Value: 8 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Divinatory

Short Description: Moonbriar is a thorny perennial with pale leaves and silver-white flowers. Older Vaela'drin and Falha'drin traditions associate cultivated stands with twilight observances, remembrance, guidance, and rites involving dreams and visions.

History and Cultivation: Moonbriar entered Alven'Nathiss through later contact between the elven peoples rather than through the original Sera'drin settlement. Managed plantings are maintained on Ael'eris and Ael'delar by communities preserving traditions associated with the plant.

Stored: Flowering sprigs should be kept cool and damp if their natural sensitivity is to be preserved. Dried petals remain useful in crafting but lose the plant's Direct Use.

Direct Use: At the beginning of a Long Rest, one fresh flowering sprig can be placed in a bowl of clean water within 5 feet of one resting creature.

When the rest ends, the flower edges darken if the creature's dreams, visions, or trance were altered during that rest by an external supernatural influence.

This reveals only that such an influence occurred. It does not identify its source, content, purpose, or nature.

The sprig withers after the rest.

Common Crafting Uses: Dreambinding preparations, divinatory incense and oils, ritual materials involving dreams or visions, wards against supernatural dream intrusion, and Formulae involving magical contact through dreams.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one flowering sprig provides 8 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Pearldrop Vine

Regions: Ael'delar (Thal'eraen)
Availability: Rare in limited specialist cultivation
Tracked Quantity: 1 vial of resin
Value: 10 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Amplifying
Affinity: Fey

Short Description: Pearldrop Vine is a perennial Feywild plant with slender woody stems, glossy dark leaves, and small pale flowers. Mature stem joints produce beads of clear resin with a faint iridescent edge.

When properly prepared and incorporated into magical craft, the resin increases how strongly another material responds to an imposed enchantment.

History and Cultivation: Pearldrop Vine was introduced to Eldareth by particular Ela'drin settlers after 711 U.R. It is maintained in small managed plots around Thal'eraen and has not naturalized widely enough to appear on regional foraging tables.

Collection: Resin is gathered from hardened beads or through shallow controlled cuts in mature vines.

Stored: Fresh resin begins soft and tacky before drying into a clear flexible material. Prepared resin keeps well when sealed and protected from excessive heat.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Enchantment washes, magical lacquers, treated pigments, specialist inks, Fey-aligned craft, magical textiles, enchanted musical or theatrical components, wand and staff treatments, and Formulae where an intended magical response must be intensified.

Its Amplifying Property can satisfy an appropriate Recipe or Formula requiring an Amplifying Reagent. Its Fey Affinity can satisfy an appropriate Recipe or Formula requiring a Fey-aligned Reagent.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one vial provides 10 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Rootmantle

Regions: Ael'delar (Ela'rithren Vale, outer root network of Syl'dareth)
Availability: Rare restricted known source; not ordinary regional forage
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 10 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Regulating
Affinity: Fey

Short Description: Rootmantle is a low-growing fungus forming thin overlapping fans around portions of Syl'dareth's outer root network. Its muted green-grey surfaces are crossed beneath by pale branching veins.

When strong magical fluctuations pass through the surrounding roots, nearby growth contracts inward in sequence before gradually opening again.

Restricted Source: Rootmantle occurs only within Ela'rithren Vale where Syl'dareth's outer roots pass sufficiently close to the surface. Collection within the sacred vale is regulated by the Guardians of Syl'dareth.

Stored: Fresh Rootmantle remains responsive for several days when kept cool, damp, and shaded. Dried and pressed material loses its visible contraction response but retains its Regulating quality for crafting.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Preparations involving living wood or other botanical material, magical grafting compounds, Fey botanical Formulae, warding preparations involving living materials, and processes where magical energy must be introduced gradually into a biological component.

Its Fey Affinity can satisfy an appropriate Recipe or Formula requiring a Fey-aligned Reagent.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 10 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Foods & Edible Forage

The following table provides a quick reference for the established tracked foods and edible forage of Alven'Nathiss.

Material	Catalogue Rarity	Value	Material Type	Properties	Affinity
Birchcap	Common	2 sp	Food	None	None
Bluewrack	Common	2 sp	Food	None	None
Del'velar Violet	Common	3 gp	Food	Regulating	None
Glassbloom Plum	Common	8 sp	Food	Preservative	None
Wineberry	Common	2 sp	Food	None	None
Ferncoil Shoots	Uncommon	2 sp	Food	None	None
Pearlcap	Uncommon	3 sp	Food	None	None
Blackroot Truffle	Rare	3 gp	Food	None	None

Common

Birchcap

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Common
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 2 sp
Material Type: Food
Properties: None

Short Description: Birchcap is a pale tan woodland mushroom found around mature birch trees. Its firm flesh holds together well when cooked.

Wild: Birchcaps grow singly or in small clusters through leaf litter around mature birches, particularly after wet weather.

Stored: Fresh Birchcaps keep reasonably well when cool and wrapped. They can also be sliced and dried.

Direct Use: Birchcaps are edible when properly cooked. One portion provides approximately half a day's food for a Small or Medium creature.

Common Crafting Uses: Cooking, preserved trail food, soups, stews, and other prepared meals.

Bluewrack

Regions: Ael'nareen (suitable northern and eastern rocky coasts and channels)
Forage Frequency: Common within suitable coastal habitat
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 2 sp
Material Type: Food
Properties: None

Short Description: Bluewrack is a thick cold-water seaweed with broad dark green to slate-blue fronds.

Wild: It grows on submerged rock and through channels along exposed cold-water coastline and can be gathered from accessible rocks and pools at low water.

Stored: Bluewrack can be eaten fresh after washing or dried into compact sheets and strips.

Direct Use: One portion provides approximately half a day's food for a Small or Medium creature.

Common Crafting Uses: Soups, fish dishes, dried travel food, seasoning, and other cooking.

Del'velar Violet

Regions: Ael'tharis (Del'velar and western Lathorien Fields)
Availability: Common in established vineyards
Tracked Quantity: 1 basket
Weight: Approximately 5 lb.
Value: 3 gp
Material Type: Food
Properties: Regulating

Short Description: Del'velar Violet is a cultivated dark-violet grape developed through generations of Sera'drin horticulture. Its firm-skinned fruit has pale silver-grey flesh surrounding small dark seeds.

Its juice responds unusually well to controlled fermentation and specialist preparation, helping active ingredients develop and release their effects at a consistent rate.

Cultivated: Del'velar Violets are grown principally around Del'velar and throughout suitable parts of the western Lathorien Fields.

Stored: Fresh grapes keep for a limited time after harvest. Fruit intended for wine or specialist processing is normally pressed soon after gathering.

Direct Use: Del'velar Violets can be eaten normally. The raw fruit provides no additional mechanical benefit.

Common Crafting Uses: Velarion Wine, ordinary wines and cordials, botanical extracts, and Formulae where a grape-derived ingredient with Regulating qualities is appropriate.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one basket provides 3 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Glassbloom Plum

Regions: Ael'tharis (Lathorien Fields)
Availability: Common in established orchards
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 8 sp
Material Type: Food
Properties: Preservative

Short Description: Glassbloom Plum is a cultivated fruit with deep blue-violet skin covered by a fine natural bloom. Its flesh is pale gold with a faint rose tint around the stone.

When the fruit is cut or bruised, the exposed surface develops a very thin clear film that slows moisture loss, browning, and ordinary spoilage.

Cultivated: Glassbloom Plums are grown throughout the orchard country of the Lathorien Fields, particularly on well-drained lower slopes and sheltered valley ground.

Stored: Undamaged fruit keeps well in cool, dry conditions. The skin and outer flesh can also be processed into a pale preservative extract for specialist crafting.

Direct Use: Glassbloom Plums can be eaten raw. One portion provides approximately half a day's food for a Small or Medium creature.

Common Crafting Uses: Preserved foods, fruit pastes, travel provisions, culinary syrups, food-safe coatings, and preparations intended to slow ordinary drying, browning, or spoilage.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 8 sp of Ingredient Credit.

Wineberry

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Common
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 2 sp
Material Type: Food
Properties: None

Short Description: Wineberry is a thorny woodland bramble producing clusters of dark red berries that deepen toward purple-black as they ripen.

Wild: Wineberry favors woodland edges, clearings, roadsides, neglected hedges, old tracks, and other places where sunlight reaches the ground.

Stored: Fresh berries bruise quickly and are usually eaten, dried, preserved, or reduced into syrup soon after gathering.

Direct Use: Wineberries can be eaten raw. One portion provides approximately half a day's food for a Small or Medium creature.

Common Crafting Uses: Preserves, syrups, sauces, fermented drinks, and simple natural dyes.

Uncommon

Ferncoil Shoots

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 2 sp
Material Type: Food
Properties: None

Short Description: Ferncoil Shoots are young fern growths gathered while still tightly curled. They are crisp and mildly earthy after proper preparation.

Wild: The shoots emerge from damp forest soil in shaded clearings, stream margins, and beneath breaks in the canopy.

Stored: Fresh shoots wilt quickly but can be blanched and preserved in brine or dried.

Direct Use: Ferncoil Shoots should be cooked before eating. One portion provides approximately half a day's food for a Small or Medium creature.

Common Crafting Uses: Soups, stews, vegetable dishes, preserved greens, and trail meals.

Pearlcap

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 3 sp
Material Type: Food
Properties: None

Short Description: Pearlcap is a soft pale-grey mushroom with a faint pearlescent sheen. It grows in damp birch and alder woodland.

Wild: Pearlcaps appear in small groups through deep leaf litter and moss in shaded moist ground.

Stored: They bruise easily and are usually cooked soon after gathering or sliced and dried.

Direct Use: Pearlcaps should be cooked before eating. One portion provides approximately half a day's food for a Small or Medium creature.

Common Crafting Uses: Soups, sauces, stews, dried mushroom mixtures, and other prepared foods.

Rare

Blackroot Truffle

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Forage Frequency: Rare
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 3 gp
Material Type: Food
Properties: None

Short Description: Blackroot Truffle is a dark subterranean fungus prized for its strong savory aroma and richly flavored flesh.

Wild: Truffles develop beneath mature woodland trees in deep, relatively undisturbed soil. Productive patches remain scattered even within suitable forest.

Stored: Fresh truffles are brushed clean rather than washed and kept somewhere cool and dry. Their aroma fades with age.

Direct Use: Blackroot Truffles are edible, but one portion is too small and rich to count as a meaningful amount of daily food.

Common Crafting Uses: Sauces, rich stews, preserved foods, flavored oils, and other high-quality cooking.

Named Non-Tracked Flora

The plants in this section are established parts of Alven'Nathiss but do not use the Special Material system. Their importance comes from cuisine, agriculture, horticulture, history, ceremonial use, or cultural familiarity.

Material	Regions	Status
Hearthsprig	Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar	Culinary herb
Ivoryspire	Ael'delar, with garden cultivation elsewhere	Ceremonial flower
Rainbell	Ael'delar, with garden cultivation elsewhere	Ceremonial flower
Roselace	Ael'delar, with garden cultivation elsewhere	Ceremonial flower
Twinbloom	Ael'delar, with garden cultivation elsewhere	Ceremonial flower
Violetplume	Ael'delar, with garden cultivation elsewhere	Ceremonial flower
Brineleaf	Ael'eris	Edible coastal plant
Bronzeblush Apple	Ael'delar, Ael'tharis, with smaller orchards on Ael'nareen and Ael'eris	Heritage orchard cultivar
Groveleaf	Ael'delar	Ela'drin food crop
Isyl'norin Bean	Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar	Sera'drin heritage crop
Thal'eraen Root	Ael'delar	Ela'drin food crop

Named Herbs, Flowers & Botanical Flora

Hearthsprig

Regions: Ael'tharis, Ael'nareen, Ael'eris, Ael'delar
Status: Named non-tracked culinary herb

Short Description: Hearthsprig is a low perennial herb with narrow grey-green leaves and small pale flowers. Crushing the leaves releases a fresh resinous aroma with a mild citrus note.

History and Cultivation: Hearthsprig descends from culinary stock carried from Isyl'norin during the Second Elven Exodus. Over time it became an ordinary household herb throughout Alven'Nathiss.

Common Uses: Seasoning for beans, root vegetables, fish, breads, broths, marinades, preserved foods, and household teas.