Tremba Vine
Wha? I didna post yesterday? I thought I did. Oopsy.
Anyway, I'm stuck on a name and it's crimping my production style. I can't progress on the Myrrhlanthus sourcebook or the damn adventure I should be working on because of one name. Crap thing is, it's not even an important name.
See, last night, I was actually taking the time to research how to grow grapes and hops, as well as brewing beer and wine. (I know how to grow shit. Growing two living rocks right now. One's reproducing. Lithops if you wanna look em up.) I discovered that grapes don't grow so well in the Green River Valley. Too dry, bad soil, bad drainage, no real irrigation system, etc. So, what to do? I've got a figer a way for a winery to exist in this place, one that makes super popular wine, along with beer, ale, mead, and a few more drinks of questionable legality.
Simple, they don't use grapes. Instead, there's a plant that's native to the area. It actually blooms/flowers three times a year, but if you pick the berries in the spring, the summer and winter blooms don't hit and likewise with picking summer berries ruining the winter berry yeild. So, the winery has three different sets of crops to account for that trait. The blend of flavors the berries bring is what makes the wine so popular world wide. Awesome. One key note, though, picking flowers does not stop the next seasons berries.
BUT WHAT IS IT'S NAME!???
The simple thing is to just make up a name. Hell, make up the number 3 in some primitive language and call it that. Chlebany. or Bjordeen Vine. or Dehnsy.
In fact, here's what I'm gonna do. Trechkhar Frehyn. It's Nyran for three seasons fruit. Nyran sounds like a mix of Arabian and German, so it's prolly pronounced like Tree-sch-kar Free-hingn.
Yeah, I like that.
NOTE: Credit for making up the name in an old language goes fully to Wendy.
So, each berry has a distinctive flavor AND a type of magic associated with, as does each flower. So, the spring berry is slightly green tasting and tends to benefit healing magic. The flower (smelling of aloe and coconut) essence is more potent in charms, though. Summer berries taste fresh and sweet and are associated with spells of light and heat. The flower (smelling like honey suckle and lilac, with just a hint of sugar) is rumored to fend off undead, and summer flower jewelry is quite popular among the people of the area. Winter berries are more bitter and viewed to have necromantic properties, while the flower (smelling like rose with a subtle hint of orange) is linked with sleep and dreams.
Fun.
Anyway, I'm stuck on a name and it's crimping my production style. I can't progress on the Myrrhlanthus sourcebook or the damn adventure I should be working on because of one name. Crap thing is, it's not even an important name.
See, last night, I was actually taking the time to research how to grow grapes and hops, as well as brewing beer and wine. (I know how to grow shit. Growing two living rocks right now. One's reproducing. Lithops if you wanna look em up.) I discovered that grapes don't grow so well in the Green River Valley. Too dry, bad soil, bad drainage, no real irrigation system, etc. So, what to do? I've got a figer a way for a winery to exist in this place, one that makes super popular wine, along with beer, ale, mead, and a few more drinks of questionable legality.
Simple, they don't use grapes. Instead, there's a plant that's native to the area. It actually blooms/flowers three times a year, but if you pick the berries in the spring, the summer and winter blooms don't hit and likewise with picking summer berries ruining the winter berry yeild. So, the winery has three different sets of crops to account for that trait. The blend of flavors the berries bring is what makes the wine so popular world wide. Awesome. One key note, though, picking flowers does not stop the next seasons berries.
BUT WHAT IS IT'S NAME!???
The simple thing is to just make up a name. Hell, make up the number 3 in some primitive language and call it that. Chlebany. or Bjordeen Vine. or Dehnsy.
In fact, here's what I'm gonna do. Trechkhar Frehyn. It's Nyran for three seasons fruit. Nyran sounds like a mix of Arabian and German, so it's prolly pronounced like Tree-sch-kar Free-hingn.
Yeah, I like that.
NOTE: Credit for making up the name in an old language goes fully to Wendy.
So, each berry has a distinctive flavor AND a type of magic associated with, as does each flower. So, the spring berry is slightly green tasting and tends to benefit healing magic. The flower (smelling of aloe and coconut) essence is more potent in charms, though. Summer berries taste fresh and sweet and are associated with spells of light and heat. The flower (smelling like honey suckle and lilac, with just a hint of sugar) is rumored to fend off undead, and summer flower jewelry is quite popular among the people of the area. Winter berries are more bitter and viewed to have necromantic properties, while the flower (smelling like rose with a subtle hint of orange) is linked with sleep and dreams.
Fun.
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