Ghostfire

Ghostfire is a flower native to Iocanthos. When it was discovered to possess
potent psychoactive properties, particularly
when rendered down and concentrated in the
form of a bloodlust-inducing combat drug, it became a staple of Imperial Guard penal legions across the
sector and is even exported beyond.
The rendered pollen has become the planet’s
only tithe to the Imperium. Otherwise, the
planet has been left to languish and exists
in a near feral state. Indeed, the control of
the pollen’s export, traded for arms and
the products of off-world industry by the
planet’s fractious warlords, has become the
measure of power on Iocanthos and even
further cause for bloodshed and violence.
Ghostfire itself has proved all but
impossible to synthesise or cultivate on
other worlds, and is incredibly difficult to
intensively farm as its tangled iridescen
blossoms seem to cleave only to the torn
and battlefield-strewn lands. This has
led to a popular myth that may well have
more than a grain of truth to it, that the
Ghostfire’s nourishment is anguish, despair
and violence and that one blossom springs
for every one of the world’s lost souls. Some
even whisper the sedition that those who
rule the sector prevent anyone from looking
too closely into the suspect nature of these
“crops”, ignoring what should be obvious to
anyone who spends time among the warring
clans of Iocanthos: that wherever their
soldiers fight and die, the Ghostfire flowers
soon follow.
== Ghostfire Pollen Extract ==
An incredibly dangerous liquid distilled from the
condensed pollen of the Ghostfire flowers of Iocanthos,
Ghostfire extract is the material from which the bulk
of the Segmentum Obscurus’s versions of Frenzon are
actually derived. The potency of the extract is such that
the Imperium long ago concluded it was a far better
idea to create a “lesser version” than lose soldiers to the
overwhelming effects of a pure dose.
A dose of Ghostfire pollen extract grants the Fearless and
Frenzy talents and the Unnatural Agility (×2) trait. The effects
last for 2d10 minutes. As a side effect, however, the user takes
1 point of Damage (ignoring Armor and Toughness Bonus)
as he bleeds through his pores.
Cost 300, Very Rare