Sigrid
Journeyman
Registration Date: 22.02.2008
Posts: 10
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I worked through the Tamriel flora list at UESP, figuring out where it
makes sense to put in Skyrim existing plants from other provinces. All
these plants are in the games, nothing yet which is solely from the
lore.
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Floral Suitability for Skyrim
Where we may expect plants from other provinces to find purchase in
Skyrim. Soil tests conducted by the academic colleges of Haafinghar and
Winterhold. Published by the Ysmir Collective Press, 3E430.
Northern Cyrodiil
Some say in memory of her violent, haunted, race-hunted past, cairn
bolete grows profusely in the caves and grottoes which honeycomb the
Holds. Wisp stalks are just as common as in Cyrodiil caves. Clouded
funnel and milk thistle grow profusely in high areas below the
treeline. Motherwort and tinder polypore are especially suitable for
the western Velothi mountains. Both mugwort seeds and wormwood leaves
come from the Artemisia family, scraggy and sporadic in the highest
alpine and glacial climes. Witches' tasp lore recommends the seeds to
control dream travel, and keep away ancestral moths. Mandrake in the
highlands of the Pale. In low-lying forested areas, bergamot, fly
amanita, garlic, ginkgo, lily of the valley, somnalius frond, St.
Jahn's wort, steel-blue entoloma, viper's bugloss. Various hardy,
especially tuberous farm crops in cultivated areas of the same clime.
Hammerfell Mountains
Black and white poppies in the mountains of the dragon's tail.
The Province of Morrowind
At the same latitudes as Skyrim, any plant which grows in Vvardenfell
outside the ashlands should find purchase in Skyrim's soil. Lichens
color the harshest climes, where almost nothing else will grow. Salty
kreshweed in abundance on the shore and islands of the Sea of Ghosts.
Chokeweed in the highlands of the Pale. Some bittergreen in the western
Velothi mountains. Draggle tail, hackle-lo, a few isolated muck sponges
and slough ferns, and some wild satrice and violet coprinus in the
coastal lowlands. In more temperate areas, black anther, comberry,
corkbulb, gold kanet, evergreen heather, stoneflower, willow anther.
For fungi, you may see bungler's bane or hypha facia amongst the more
common russulas. We came by one lovely timsa-come-by, caringly planted
and watered by an expatriate Dunmer, who also tilled with ash the soil
of a small plot of wickwheat.
The Island of Solstheim
Holly berries in bushes well-suited to the climes of Skyrim. In more
temperate areas, belladonna. It's said wolfsbane grows in garlands on
the throat of the world, but this is probably poetic license.
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I appreciate comments, advice, critiques, and suggestions.
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Sigrid studies alchemy in Skyrim.
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