Cloud Sage
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Type: Homegrown Season: Rarity: Category: NoteIcon: Plant_friend Source: https://carodraws.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/sage/ Region: Ashen Wastes Sublocation:
Description:
Cloud-sage, though it has not always been called that. A perennial herb native to the plains south of Mauler territory. It catches the attention of a lot of pollinators.
Verdant's Notes
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Mag. Beahreth
(On a particularly rainy afternoon, a slightly mud-caked envelope pokes through the wooden floorboards. As if pushed by a sprout, it spends a few tender minutes working through until fully breaches the surface with a soft pop. It’s damp but intact—and sealed with moss-soft along the fold of the paper. )
(the writing inside is uneven, an almost a childish scrawl, but with the deliberate attention of an adult)
Magister Beahreth,
I hope this letter finds you hale, or at least weathering. I’ve recently learned that memory issues are common amongst the “Merlins”—a very unfortunate shared dilemma…but I don’t believe we are without recourse.
Some memories sink deeper than words can reach. Others simply wait for the right kind of touch—scent, soil, silence. To that end, I’ve sent something along, if you’ll humor me…
Enclosed you’ll find something of a friend of mine: a blossom—cloud-sage, though it has not always been called that. A perennial herb native to the plains south of Mauler territory. It catches the attention of a lot of pollinators—
Ah, I’ll spare you the full bramble and get to the root of it: these days cloud-sage is persistence, but an empire before that it was homecoming. On a closer heartwood-listen: the spirit is more about holding or as I interpret: return to a place remembered. To let our matter yield to memory and for a moment dwell in the same place.
So, um, if you’d be so kind: try eating it. Tea may dilute the meaning but a full blossom might be able to push through the steeping.
In leaf and memory,
-@magister-verdant
(the above writing doesn’t fill the page, but almost as an afterthought, there’s a second page attached with a quick scrawl of a warning:)
Oh! It may also simply cause your tongue to go numb. If healing magic is unavailable, I’ve included something for that: a bit of infused tree-resin. Also, to be eaten.
