Flora & Forage of Vel'Nathar

Vel'Nathar contains a broad range of useful plants, fungi, foods, fibers, woods, and other natural resources. The materials collected here are those most relevant to gathering, crafting, trade, or regional life.

The five principal surface regions are the Lowlands, Eastmarch, Bleakthorn Wilds, Greyspires, and Northern Highlands. Lunebrook is part of the Lowlands, though individual entries identify it separately where a material is particularly associated with the forest.

A material is listed only once even when it occurs in several regions. Forage Frequency describes how likely a wild material is to be encountered within suitable habitat. Cultivated, managed, or otherwise controlled resources use Availability instead.

The Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Exceptional classifications describe overall catalogue availability. A material can still be locally plentiful within a restricted habitat.

This article describes the normal ecological baseline of surface Vel'Nathar rather than temporary changes caused by current campaign events.

Herbs, Fungi & Botanical Materials

The table below provides a quick reference for the established tracked botanical materials of surface Vel'Nathar.

Common

Cairnlace

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
Forage Frequency: Common in suitable exposed-stone habitat
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 1 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: None

Short Description: Cairnlace is a thin branching lichen that spreads across exposed stone in overlapping grey-green mats. Older growth develops muted burgundy and violet coloration along its underside.

Wild: Cairnlace grows on exposed rock, old walls, cairns, standing stones, bridges, road markers, ruins, mine structures, and other weathered stone. It occurs across Vel'Nathar wherever a stable exposed surface allows slow colonies to develop.

Stored: Gathered Cairnlace is dried whole and keeps well in ordinary dry storage.

Direct Use: One portion can be crushed into a small liquid sample. After 1 minute, strongly acidic material turns the lichen deep red, while strongly alkaline material produces a dark blue-violet response. Material producing neither reaction causes no decisive change.

This reveals only a strong acidic or alkaline reaction. It does not identify the substance or establish whether it is safe. The portion is consumed.

Common Crafting Uses: Dyes, leather pigments, assay preparations, indicator mixtures, and Recipes requiring a responsive botanical pigment.

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

Fenmallow

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds (Wailing Morass and comparable wetlands), Eastmarch (Willow Marsh and Mosswillow Wood), Lowlands
Forage Frequency: Common within suitable wetland habitat
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 2 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Medicinal

Short Description: Fenmallow is a low wetland perennial with soft grey-green leaves, small pale flowers, and thick cream-colored roots. Its roots contain smooth tissue valued in soothing medicinal preparations.

Wild: Fenmallow grows along damp banks, wet meadows, wooded islands, marsh margins, slow waterways, and seasonally flooded ground.

Stored: The roots are washed, sliced, and dried soon after harvesting.

Direct Use: None. Its useful compounds require preparation.

Common Crafting Uses: Soothing salves, poultices, medicinal washes, throat preparations, and treatments for irritated or damaged tissue.

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

Glimmerleaf

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 in broken woodland, clearings, shaded hedgerows, old paths, and similar places where daylight reaches the forest floor.

Stored: 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: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 becomes more useful when concentrated.

Wild: Lunethistle favors road verges, clearings, disturbed slopes, old field margins, abandoned workings, grazed ground, and settlement edges.

Stored: Stems are usually split and dried, or their sap is collected in 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.

Rainleaf

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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, roadside ditches, stream margins, damp hedgerows, and other moist ground that does not remain permanently flooded.

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: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 useful in medicine and antitoxins.

Wild: Redbriar grows beneath bramble, thorn hedges, scrub, forest edges, roadsides, neglected boundaries, and other disturbed ground.

Stored: Cleaned Redbriar is usually 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.

Silverleaf Leaves

Regions: Northern Highlands (Mistglen)
Forage Frequency: Common within Mistglen
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 3 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Medicinal

Short Description: The pale leaves of Mistglen's Silverleaf Oaks have a muted metallic sheen and remain useful after drying. Fallen leaves are the most accessible medicinal material provided by the trees.

Wild: Silverleaf Oaks grow only within Mistglen. Healthy fallen leaves can be collected beneath mature trees without harming them, though important groves are carefully managed.

Stored: Leaves are cleaned and dried whole or crumbled for later preparation.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Herbal washes, poultices, medicinal teas, salves, and preparations used in treating ordinary injuries and ailments.

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

Uncommon

Duskmoss

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 absorbs moisture readily 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.

Elarin Reed

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds (Sallowmere Basin and Wailing Morass)
Forage Frequency: Uncommon across Bleakthorn, but considerably more common within suitable local wetland
Tracked Quantity: 1 bundle
Value: 5 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Medicinal
Affinity: Fey

Short Description: Elarin Reed is a tall blue-green wetland plant descended from the reed beds that once grew around Lake Elarin. Its soft inner pith and clear sap are valued by herbalists.

Wild: The reed grows in shallow water, saturated soil, slow channels, and sheltered marsh margins around Sallowmere and the Wailing Morass.

Stored: Stalks are bundled and dried whole or split to remove their inner pith. Collected sap is kept in sealed containers.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Medicinal washes, compresses, soothing preparations, and magical mixtures requiring a botanical Reagent with Fey resonance.

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

Goldthread Fungus

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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.

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

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

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

Common Crafting Uses: Medicinal tinctures, alchemical binders, mixtures requiring ingredients to remain evenly suspended, and Recipes making use of its faint natural glow.

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

Moonfern

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 brittle along the edges 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 Moonfern 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.

Moonpetal

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds (Old Barrows and suitable open uplands), Eastmarch (Northern Eastmarch and Greyspire foothills), Greyspires (sheltered eastern and northern lower uplands), Northern Highlands
Forage Frequency: Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 2 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: None

Short Description: Moonpetal is a low perennial flower with broad ivory petals carrying a faint blue-grey cast around their edges.

Wild: Moonpetal grows in cool meadows, open woodland, sheltered upland ground, rough pasture, and protected lower slopes.

Stored: Petals are separated and dried shortly after gathering.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Traditional warding preparations and specialist practices involving protective magic. Some Recipes or Formulae call for Moonpetal specifically despite it having no general Property.

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

Moorlint

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch (Northern Uplands and Greyspire transition), Greyspires (Northern Threshold), Lowlands (Greenheath), Northern Highlands
Forage Frequency: Uncommon within suitable moorland and rough 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 their 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.

Screefoil

Regions: Greyspires (High Alpine Band)
Forage Frequency: Uncommon within suitable high-alpine habitat
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 4 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Stabilizing

Short Description: Screefoil is a low alpine perennial with thick blue-grey leaves. Its dense sap helps it endure repeated freezing and thawing.

Wild: Screefoil grows in stable scree, rocky ledges, shallow soil pockets, and sheltered cracks exposed by seasonal snowmelt.

Stored: Leaves are usually pressed soon after gathering to recover their sap, which is kept sealed.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Temperature-sensitive mixtures, preparations vulnerable to unwanted crystallization, and specialist work involving delicate liquid or crystal Reagents.

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

Silverleaf Bark

Regions: Northern Highlands (Mistglen)
Availability: Managed source
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 5 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Medicinal

Short Description: Properly prepared Silverleaf Bark is pale and close-grained, with concentrated compounds useful in medicinal extracts and decoctions.

Collection: Living Silverleaf Oaks are not casually stripped. Most usable bark comes from natural shedding, storm damage, pruning, or carefully managed harvesting.

Stored: Bark is dried in thin strips before grinding, steeping, or extraction.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Medicinal decoctions, concentrated extracts, salves, tinctures, and field preparations.

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

Silverleaf Sap

Regions: Northern Highlands (Mistglen)
Availability: Managed source
Tracked Quantity: 1 vial
Value: 5 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Medicinal, Binding

Short Description: Silverleaf Sap is a pale, slightly viscous liquid collected from carefully tended trees. It is valued both for medicinal preparations and as a botanical binding medium.

Collection: Sap is obtained through controlled tapping. Collection is limited to avoid stressing individual trees.

Stored: Fresh sap is strained and kept in sealed vials. It gradually thickens when exposed to air.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Medicinal salves, poultices, treated dressings, herbal pastes, and preparations where dry ingredients must remain bound in a botanical medium.

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

Stonewort

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch (Western Greyspire-fed waterways), Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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: It grows in cold streams, springs, seepage pools, drainage courses, millraces, and other waterways carrying substantial dissolved minerals.

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

Direct Use: None.

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

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

Tallowcap

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires (Lower Western and other suitable wet woodland), Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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, damp wooden ruins, rotting fence posts, 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.

Thrumcap

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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.

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: Bleakthorn Wilds (Shattered Coast and suitable rocky shores), Eastmarch (exposed eastern rocky coast), Lowlands (Southreach and suitable exposed shores), Northern Highlands (Northern 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 small islets above the regular reach of the tide.

Stored: Mature runners should be kept reasonably dry. Precision uses usually require the 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 when an appropriate Recipe or Formula accepts unprocessed Conductive Fiber.

Rare

Ghostreed

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds (Sallowmere Basin and Wailing Morass), Eastmarch (Willow Marsh), Lowlands, Northern Highlands (sheltered lochs, quiet pools, and wooded waterways)
Forage Frequency: Rare
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 10 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Divinatory
Affinity: Ethereal

Short Description: Ghostreed is a pale hollow reed whose fine internal fibers react to disturbances in the boundary between the Material and Ethereal Planes.

Wild: Ghostreed grows along quiet stream margins, spring-fed pools, marsh channels, sheltered loch edges, and other gently moving freshwater.

Stored: Harvested stems are dried in straight lengths and wrapped to prevent splitting.

Direct Use: As a Utilize action, a creature can split one prepared portion and expose the fine pith. For the next 10 minutes, the fibers visibly tremble if a creature or object on the Ethereal Plane comes within 10 feet.

This reveals only that an Ethereal presence is nearby. It does not reveal location, identity, number, or appearance, and it does not detect creatures that are merely Invisible.

The portion is consumed after use.

Common Crafting Uses: Divinatory preparations, planar wards, detection devices, and Formulae intended to sense or interact with the Ethereal Plane.

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

Hartsbane

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds (Old Barrows and suitable uplands), Eastmarch (Northern Uplands), Greyspires (Northern and Sheltered Uplands), Northern Highlands
Forage Frequency: Rare
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 8 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Toxic

Short Description: Hartsbane is a poisonous upland herb with narrow dark-green leaves and clusters of washed-purple flowers. Its strongest toxins are concentrated through its lower stem and root.

Wild: Hartsbane grows in scattered patches across rough uplands, old grazing ground, stony slopes, and sheltered valleys.

Stored: Hartsbane is normally dried and kept clearly separated from culinary and medicinal plants.

Direct Use: None. Turning its toxicity into a predictable poison requires an appropriate crafting process.

Common Crafting Uses: Poisons, pest-control compounds, toxic extracts, and other preparations requiring a Toxic Reagent.

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

Moonbriar

Regions: Eastmarch (Briarhill and surviving early Vaela'drin and Falha'drin sites), Lowlands (Lunebrook)
Availability: Rare surviving stands
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. Surviving stands are associated with early Vaela'drin and Falha'drin traditions involving twilight observances, remembrance, guidance, dreams, and visions.

Wild: Moonbriar survives in fragmented relic stands around old boundaries, springs, ruined settlement ground, and other places where it was deliberately maintained.

Stored: Fresh flowering sprigs should be kept cool and damp. Dried petals remain useful for 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.

Silverleaf Wood

Regions: Northern Highlands (Mistglen)
Availability: Managed source, not a regional forage result
Tracked Quantity: 1 billet
Weight: 5 lb.
Value: 25 gp
Material Type: Wood
Properties: Stabilizing

Short Description: Seasoned Silverleaf Wood is pale, close-grained, resilient, and unusually resistant to twisting or warping after proper drying.

Collection: Living Silverleaf Wood is controlled by the Leafkeepers. Ordinary supplies come from fallen limbs, storm damage, managed pruning, or authorized cutting.

Stored: Fresh wood requires careful seasoning. Properly prepared timber remains exceptionally stable through ordinary changes in temperature and humidity.

Direct Use: None.

Common Crafting Uses: Bows, quarterstaffs, wands, rods, Arcane Foci, Druidic Foci, instrument components, precision housings, and other wooden constructions where maintaining shape and alignment matters.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one billet provides 25 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Sunfelt

Regions: Greyspires (High Alpine Exposed Rock), Northern Highlands (highest Greyspire-adjacent exposed ridges)
Forage Frequency: Rare
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 8 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Retentive

Short Description: Sunfelt is a slow-growing alpine lichen that absorbs warmth from sun-heated stone and releases that energy unusually slowly.

Wild: It grows on stable sun-facing rock above the tree line, principally in the Greyspires and on the highest adjacent Highland ridges.

Stored: Freshly gathered Sunfelt gradually loses stored warmth. Dried material remains useful for crafting.

Direct Use: A fresh portion can be wrapped around a Small or smaller sealed container. For the next 8 hours, the contents are protected from freezing due to ordinary environmental cold.

This does not thaw frozen contents, protect a creature, or counter magical cold. At the end of the 8 hours, the portion is no longer usable.

Common Crafting Uses: Temperature-buffering linings, insulated Reagent containers, preparations intended to retain thermal energy, specialist field-storage equipment, and Formulae involving gradual energy retention or release.

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

Tremblewort

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds (Stable Shrouding-Altered Habitats)
Forage Frequency: Rare
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 8 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Resonant

Short Description: Tremblewort is a slender perennial whose leaves can develop faint irregular tremors in response to strong fluctuations in nearby magical currents.

Wild: It occurs in scattered stable habitats altered during the Bleakthorn Shrouding, especially around Ashbrook and similar areas where changed ley conditions affected local plant life.

Stored: Fresh stalks retain their sensitivity for only a limited time. Material intended for crafting is dried carefully.

Direct Use: A fresh portion can be placed against the ground, stonework, or another solid surface and observed for 1 minute. If a strong unstable magical effect or significant fluctuating magical current is present within 10 feet of the point of contact, the leaves begin to tremble visibly.

This reveals only that unusual magical fluctuation is present. It does not identify its source, direction, school, strength, or cause.

The portion loses its sensitivity after use.

Common Crafting Uses: Tuning preparations, specialist magical inks, warding Components, alchemical instruments, and Formulae involving vibration or fluctuating magical resonance.

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

Exceptional

Ivorybell

Regions: Lowlands (Lunebrook)
Forage Frequency: Exceptional
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 25 gp
Material Type: Reagent
Properties: Restorative, Stabilizing

Short Description: Ivorybell is an ivory-white woodland herb that grows only where a particular fungal association connects it to the roots of mature trees. Its fleshy tissues readily accept medicinal extracts and magical infusions without breaking down.

Wild: Ivorybell appears only in heavily shaded, undisturbed old-growth portions of Lunebrook. It depends on a fungal partner currently known only from that mature woodland environment.

Stored: Harvested Ivorybell bruises easily and is normally preserved in sealed containers soon after gathering.

Direct Use: None. Its useful qualities require proper preparation.

Common Crafting Uses: Potions and salves concerned with healing and recovery, medicinal preparations containing difficult-to-combine ingredients, and magical consumables requiring a stable botanical carrier.

When appropriate to a Recipe or Formula, one portion provides 25 gp of Ingredient Credit.

Foods & Edible Forage

These tracked foods represent quantities significant enough to matter during travel, trade, or preparation.

Common

Birchcap

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 birches. Its firm flesh holds together well when cooked.

Wild: Birchcaps grow singly or in small clusters in leaf litter around mature birches, especially 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: Bleakthorn Wilds (suitable cold rocky coast), Eastmarch (suitable exposed eastern coast), Lowlands (suitable exposed southern coast), Northern Highlands (Northern Coast)
Forage Frequency: Common within suitable cold rocky 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 in channels along exposed cold-water coastlines and can be gathered from accessible rocks, pools, and coves 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. Older material can also be used as animal feed or fertilizer, while burned Bluewrack produces mineral-rich ash used in ordinary workshop crafts.

Ironoak Acorns

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
Forage Frequency: Common
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 3 sp
Material Type: Food
Properties: None

Short Description: Ironoak Acorns are large dark-shelled acorns produced by Ironoak. Their kernels are nutritious but strongly bitter when fresh.

Wild: Ironoak occurs throughout suitable mature woodland. Acorns are gathered beneath mature trees during late summer and autumn.

Stored: Whole acorns keep well when dry. Their kernels must be shelled and soaked or leached before being eaten in quantity.

Direct Use: Once properly prepared, one portion provides approximately one day's food for a Small or Medium creature.

Common Crafting Uses: Roasted nuts, acorn meal, breads, porridges, preserved trail food, ordinary dyes, and leather treatment.

Wineberry

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 abandoned holdings.

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: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 openings 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: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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.

Russetpear

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
Forage Frequency: Uncommon
Tracked Quantity: 1 portion
Value: 3 sp
Material Type: Food
Properties: None

Short Description: Russetpear is a small hardy wild pear with rough brown-green skin and firm fragrant flesh.

Wild: Trees are frequently found in lighter woodland, old clearings, abandoned farmsteads, former orchard margins, old roads, and long-disused settlement ground.

Stored: Russetpears keep well when cool and dry and can also be dried, preserved, or pressed for juice.

Direct Use: Russetpears can be eaten raw. One portion, usually several fruits, provides approximately half a day's food for a Small or Medium creature.

Common Crafting Uses: Preserves, dried fruit, sauces, baked dishes, juice, and fermented drinks.

Rare

Blackroot Truffle

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires, Lowlands, Northern Highlands
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 in 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

Not every named plant in Vel'Nathar is a Special Material.

The plants in this section are established parts of the setting because of their importance to agriculture, cuisine, craft, trade, history, or ordinary household use. They have no standardized Tracked Quantity, Ingredient Credit, Property, or Affinity.

Named Non-Tracked Herbs & Botanical Flora

Bluebell Sage

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires (lower slopes and settled valleys), Lowlands, Northern Highlands
Status: Named non-tracked culinary and household herb

Short Description: Bluebell Sage is a hardy aromatic herb with soft grey-green leaves and small blue-violet flowers. Its leaves have a warm, slightly bitter scent.

Wild and Cultivated: Bluebell Sage favors sunny pasture margins, roadsides, gardens, old stone walls, lightly disturbed farmland, and relatively dry open ground. It is common in household herb gardens and especially familiar throughout Eastmarch and the settled Greyspire foothills.

Common Uses: Cooking, seasoning, teas, herb blends, household washes, and ordinary folk remedies.

Corren Flax

Regions: Lowlands (central countryside and River Corren agricultural network)
Status: Named non-tracked agricultural fiber cultivar

Short Description: Corren Flax is a long-fiber cultivar grown extensively through the central Lowlands and the broader agricultural country associated with the River Corren. Generations of selection have produced tall, consistent stalks well suited to strong ordinary fiber.

Cultivated: Corren Flax is grown in managed fields throughout suitable Lowland farmland. Ordinary flax is cultivated elsewhere in Vel'Nathar, but Corren Flax is particularly associated with Lowland agriculture and Stormhaven's maritime industries.

Common Uses: Linen, canvas, fine cordage, nets, packing textiles, sailcloth, household thread, and other ordinary fiber products.

Glassreed

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds, Eastmarch, Greyspires (lower wet valleys and drainage), Lowlands, Northern Highlands
Status: Named non-tracked craft reed

Short Description: Glassreed is a pale hollow reed known for producing long, unusually straight stems. As the stalks dry, their pale outer walls become faintly translucent, giving clean-cut sections the appearance of narrow tubes of frosted glass.

Despite its name, Glassreed remains fibrous plant material.

Wild and Managed: Glassreed grows beside streams, drainage channels, shallow pools, wet field margins, and other firm wet ground. Straight stands near settlements are sometimes deliberately maintained.

Common Uses: Disposable tubes, simple pipettes, blowing tubes, spacers, narrow funnels, filter supports, craft fittings, and ordinary workshop equipment.

Named Non-Tracked Foods & Edible Flora

Thalorin Russet

Regions: Bleakthorn Wilds
Status: Named non-tracked heritage orchard cultivar

Short Description: The Thalorin Russet is an old apple cultivar named for the Thalorin Expanse, the region that existed before the Bleakthorn Shrouding. Its medium-sized fruit has heavily russeted green-bronze skin, firm pale flesh, and a sharp-sweet flavor.

Cultivated and Feral: Thalorin Russets remain under cultivation in parts of southern Bleakthorn. Feral trees descended from abandoned orchards also survive deeper in the region around old farms, field boundaries, overgrown lanes, and woodland clearings.

Old Thalorin Russets found far inside modern woodland can sometimes reveal that the surrounding ground was once settled or cultivated.

Common Uses: Fresh fruit, cider, preserves, dried fruit, pies, sauces, vinegar, and other food preparation.