Widowwood

Author: GS4-XYNWEN
Date: 10/28/2007 12:56:51 PM

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~~ a waterstained journal page ~~

I have been successful in harvesting some rare widowwood, and I have returned not just with flowers to use in my next perfume, but a living shoot of the shrub itself. The journey through the swamps was as dangerous as legends tell, and as worth it. I brought back enough dead widowwood to craft the rose door my wife so wants, and if my botanical endeavors succeed, we can have a small grove of the elusive shrub in our garden, and I can corner the market on its scent.

-- Danekas --

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OOC: Some of you may have noted an unusual wood in Scents of Death, and perhaps a new fragrance in one of the perfumes. I designed widowwood one day while in the shower (I get all my best ideas in weird places), and pestered others to read the idea and see if it would fly. They did. It did. And I am pleased to introduce you to widowwood!

Widowwood: Blue-black wood that can have a rose, purple, or crimson sheen to it depending on how it is cut and polished, the widowwood is a rare shrub. Possessing a sturdy trunk, its wood can be used for carving in small quantities. For example, one might build a door out of pieces of widowwood, or one might make small carvings, but one would never use it to build a house. The widowwood grows best in dim and dank swamps and that ilk. Silver-backed, deep green leaves cluster in sets of five along spindly branches. At the center of each leaf cluster, a tiny and lop-sided white flower will bloom, which in turn yields a pale blue berry. These tiny flowers and berries produce a beautiful scent, and this is where the widowwood gets its name. Men over the ages have died while seeking the scent to add to perfumes or to test for alchemical or healing properties, drowned in the quick bogs the shrub grows near, never to be seen again. The widowwood has only recently been rediscovered in some treacherous bogs past the Lake of Shadowed Sorrows, and small quantities have filtered into the more populous areas of Elanthia.

*IMPORTANT* *NOTE*: This wood is considered VERY rare, so you would have to supply the wood to get anything made with it, so no running around asking for alterations with the wood in it! Plus, this, as stated in the description above, is a decorative wood only. No weapons or other functional items would ever be made from it.

There is no widowwood for sale or released, so that means for now, this is just a neat new wood. The occasional statue or something may be released eventually, so keep an eye out to start collecting if it does happen! ;)

--Xynwen--

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