Toeweed (Mojavine)

Toeweed was a herb harvested from the mojavine plant. Its name came from the curious shape of its broad, divided leaves, which reminded people of the sole of a foot, complete with splayed toes. The resinous flowers grew yellow.

The plant was native to Milonia, especially Khaimeran, where it grew especially lush, tall, and also more potent. Smaller species had spread through Ionia, all the way to Pelonnia.

It had a pungent, lingering stench that clung to everything. Dried bundles were commonly smoked, though in some regions the leaves were steeped, chewed, or burned as an incense of sorts.

Toeweed was used to soothe ill temper, fear, and anxious thoughts. It could ease pain, dull grief, encourage appetite, and bring sleep to those troubled by wounds or worry. For these reasons, folks made frequent use of it.

However, habitual smokers tended to grow forgetful, sluggish in judgment, easily confused, and at times strangely agitated. Some suffered wandering thoughts, fits of suspicion, or bouts of what common folk called toeweed madness.

Metuskh

Metuskh root was an extract of the named wasteland plant that was chewed raw. It increased alertness, reduced the need to sleep, decreased appetite, and improved energy and focus. Longer term use could cause severe anxiety and tremors.

Minatsi (drug)

Minatsi plant was native to Milonia, and was introduced to Selerian lowlands at some point. Its leaves contained an active ingredient called minatsi (marble) because of its extraction process resulting in a marble-like texture upon drying. It was highly euphoric, mood and energy enhancing substance with some ability to dull pain.

Unthom Poppy

Unthom Poppy Extract or simply unthomang came from the Unthom flower and was used as a highly effective painkiller and sleeping aid.

Nirva

Nirva Root Extract was a herb that caused strong drowsiness and quick loss of consciousness. Was used as a drug for cases like painful surgical and healing procedures, but also as a weapon. Effective and lethal doses are close, which is why its use was left to the most experienced surgeons.

Bitteryflower

Bittery Flower Extract was a pungent-smelling tincture that caused an involuntary shock reaction in the body. Used for waking drowsy people up and making them alert, and as a short-acting incapacitating weapon.

Gloomycaps

Gloomycap was a mushroom with strong hallucinogenic effects.

Halvar

Halvar was a Vaskitic substance derived from a mold used for making cheese. It was used as an effective antibiotic to cure infections.

Essence of Ektohong

The Essence of Ektohong was the heartwood extract of the Millennium tree, petrified and ground bits of its core. It was a strong hallucinogen that affected the person's ability to distinct between thought and speech. Often dubbed as the truth serum.

Trenck

"The Berserk Drug"

Trenck was a substance extracted from Ironrams during their mating season. When consumed, its immediate effects caused quick increase in alertness, blood pressure and muscle activation, making one fearless. It was used by the Iron Empire Seafarers as a sort of berserk drug.

When used daily, it tremendously enhanced muscle growth, making its user remarkably muscular, strong, and reckless; and above all, volatile and violent. Longer term use often caused sudden death at some point due to heart failure.

Trenck was administered orally from ironhog horns sealed with a wax plug, called spikes.

Yall

Yall Grass was Iron Empire Seafarer's aid for sea sickness, but it also worked to cure hangovers.

Salitor Root

Salitor root was a light painkiller for daily use. Often mixed into tea or other beverage.

Causuck Oil

Causuck oil, or styr, was a toxic, dark oil derived from the roots of Pelonnic marsh rosemary, also known as causuckweed. It was a common commodity in the Norths, though plagued by its lingering, bitter-pungent stench.

It was used for timber treatment, as a fuel, for candle making, as a remedy against lice and other pests, for sealing ships in place of tar, as a food preservative, and as a drug when heated and inhaled. Wood treated with it turned grey and became impervious to pests, as well as less prone to catching fire.

Digging the roots from marshland was hard labor, often reserved for slaves and other unfortunate creatures. The oil was extracted by boiling, rising to the surface as a dark, viscous layer. When the purified oil was heated overnight, it thickened into a wax. If heated to the point of decomposition, it produced an acrid, black, toxic smoke that was inhaled for its intoxicating effects.

It carried a sharp, musty scent known as the Northern Reek. The odor was so strong and distinctive that it deterred the uninitiated.

The name likely originated from the causucks, among the few known creatures capable of using the raw oil as sustenance.

Other oils

Mascoric oil was used as an insect repellent. It was a mascorine flower extract native to Ikharonia.

Silanic oil was a drying oil obtained from silanna plant seeds. It was used as food, in paints and pigments, and as a surface treatment. The oil had a distinctive aroma, and its use in the Silverland was so widespread that the scent was said to be characteristic of the eastern Yonian people.

The silanna shrub grew throughout eastern Ionia, and with the spread of the Yonians, it came to be cultivated across all of Ionia and eventually in farlands as well.

One of its most significant uses was in waterproofing tent cloth.

Dyes and fragrances

Yaliwood leaf extract was a deep purple color, which was used as a dye. This process, though a bit tricky, was developed early on during the Selerian Empire's Golden Age, bringing about the most common and identifiable color of Yonian gear. Yalians inherited the lucrative dye trade on the Blue Sea.

Thilian flower fragrance was a common perfume.

Qimairan flower fragrance was a strong, floral, sweet perfume native to Masorania.

Mountain salts were used to dye flames into different colors. Red, green, blue, and purple flames could be acquired by mixing these salts into the fuel.

Mana Bush, Manapack and Manance

Mana Bush was native to Arkhanic and Morakhon wastelands. It produced large seeds, from which mana mass could be extracted.

This mass contained a natural toxin, manance, which was strongly hallucinogenic and euphoric when ingested.

Apart from that, the dried, ground mass had a very rich flavor profile. Both were valued by their own properties, and a careful separation process could extract most of the manance from the solids, which were then used as manapack spice.

It was favored as drinks, both hot and cold, and was used for sweet bakeries.

Due to its limited availability, it was rare and very expensive, but during Pax Yanakhon, Ikharonians managed to cultivate the plant in Kharden, creating a market for both.

Janck

Janckroot was soft, tough, and sweet-tasting, and it was often chewed for the lack of better activity.