Fungi (sage study)

Fungi is a sage study in the field of Plant Life, investigating the fleshy and edible fruit bodies of several species of mushroom, including those that grow above and below ground. Mushrooms are eaten for their food value and for other qualities, some of them magical. Mushrooms are also a poison source.

The study includes yeasts, lichen and mushrooms, gas spores, shriekers and violet fungi, as well as sentient forms of fungus such as beholders and yellow musk creepers.

Sage Abilities

The sage abilities below are those acquired by a character through the study, according to status.

Amateur Status

• Cultivate Mushroom: grow fungi of any variety.

• Know Fungi: identify name of genera and species of fungi on sight; recognize edible from poisonous mushrooms.

• Mushroom Hunt: know when and where to search for edible or poisonous mushrooms in a wild environment.

Authority Status

• Brew Curative: enables the preparation of a mushroom-based concoction with the potential to reduce the lethality and chronic nature of a disease; the brew requires 12 hours to make.

• Detect Fungus: recognises the odour given off by dangerous fungus-based creatures, forewarning the character when approaching within 120 ft.

• Fermentation: provides knowledge of yeast and fungus in creating safe-to-consume femented alcoholic beverages and in food processing (the pickling of vegetables and making of yogurt).

• Hallucinogenic: gives knowledge of how mind-altering psychotropic substances can be prepared from mushrooms that produce these effects; enables calming and comfort to those suffering from fear and madness.

• Prepare Vexation: gives knowledge regarding the mixing and making of vexation poison, an ingestive poison designed to kill the imbiber.

See Druid Sage Abilities