Feyplants

Feyplants are plants which contain mana and behave in an odd way.

Parue Trees are trees that only grow on clear winter mornings. They quickly sprout and grow parues, their fruit. At noon they suddenly stretch out and wave around flinging the parues far and wide. Commoners harvest parues, as they are sweet, however, the trees are very hard in the cold and any fire that is taken near them is instantly extinguished. Therefore the commoners use their hands to warm the branches so the parues fall to the ground.

A ruelle tree is tall with metallic branches. On nights with a full moon, they grow flowers similar to white magnolias. After absorbing enough moonlight, the flowers shed their petals and ruelle fruit begin to grow. These begin small but grow to be about 10cm in size and coloured a light yellow. These fruit have a large amount of wind mana with little else and are therefore know to be high purity. On the Night of Schutzaria, the flowers have a powerful aroma, the ruelle are coloured purple and have much more mana within them. This causes feybeasts to swarm around the tree in order to eat the fruit.

Taue trees are a seemingly normal tree in the forests of Ehrenfest. They grow red fruits that can grow to about the size of an adult's palm, that appear to be mostly water. They are using by commoners as waterbombs during the Starbind Festival in summer, where the people start by throwing the fruits at the newlywed couples, before throwing them at anyone who's still dry once all the fresh couples have finished the gauntlet.

Myne later finds out that when Taue fruits are exposed to mana sources, they will absorb it. Once sufficient mana has been accumulated in a fruit, it goes through a brief metamorphosis before exploding and shooting seeds in a small radius. These seeds then immediately start to grow into small Trombe when they come into contact with earth.

Trombe and Taue are feyplants of the same species, but different genders. The seemingly harmless Taue trees are the females, producing the fruits, while the aggressive and dangerous Trombe are their male counterpart, which fling their spores far and wide while flailing around.

Trombe is a feyplant found in Ehrenfest. As a taue fruit gathers mana, it turns into a trombe seed, which will grow into a trombe tree when it comes in contact with mana-filled earth. By absorbing the mana of anything around it, it grows until it gets exterminated. Normally a trombe cultivates itself buried deep in the earth for years gathering mana, until it sprouts. To exterminate a trombe, one needs weapons which either don't rely on mana, or are blessed by the God of Darkness.

Trombe and Taue are feyplants of the same species, but different genders. The seemingly harmless Taue trees are the females, producing the fruits, while the aggressive and dangerous Trombe are their male counterpart, which fling their spores far and wide while flailing around.

Effon (エイフォン, Eifon) is a feyplant found in Illgner. The effon is a "singing tree" found in the mountains of Illgner. If it is alone, the effon will sing quietly to itself. However, if there is more than one effon within hearing distance of each other, they will sing louder and louder to be heard over each other. As they can become very noisy when in large groupings, the villagers of Illgner consider them a nuisance, and will usually cut them down. The sound is actually produced in the hollow of the tree, and the sound is like singing as it is rhythmic, but there are no real lyrics. Rozemyne notes that she is not sure why a tree would want to be heard.

Nanseb (ナンセーブ, Nanseebu) is a feyplant found in Illgner. This tree is a parasitic plant that latches on to the roots of a large tree and injects it's seeds into the roots. As the tree grows, it absorbs the nutrients of the tree, then once full grown, it pops out of the tree and walks away to find a new host to infect. It is a slow-moving tree and is quite easy to catch, but it's roots must be cut off when harvesting, as they can absorb nutrients from nearby plants. They are considered a pest by the residents of Illgner, and are used in the production of paper by the Rozemyne Workshop.


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