Deathroot

Deathroot has been used in magic and potion making for centuries. It is a fragile-looking plant with a thin stalk and purple flowers, which fruits once a year developing bright red fleshy pods that cause disorientation and dizziness if ingested.Codex entry: Deathroot
== Information ==
Deathroot is rather harmless on its own, but the extract from its leaves can act as a deadly poison at a high concentration. The Chasind used the less-concentrated extract to induce hallucinations.According to the description of deathroot in Dragon Age: Origins. 
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== Trivia ==
* Dalish children learn short rhymes about plants and their characteristics, which are meant to help with identification of foraged goods. The rhyme about deathroot goes like this: "Loose-leafed and tall with a high purple stall: Deathroot, to make minds frail.", part of The Seer's Yarn collection
* Qunari make one of the types of vitaar (face paint) out of deathroot; though it would be deadly to anyone else, it's said that Qunari unique physiology allows them to not only neutralizes deathroot's poisonous effect, but also causes hardening of the flesh and provides other protections.According to the description of Deathroot Vitaar.
* The Last Court mentions that deathroot is typically seen as nothing but a poison, however, with correct preparation it could be used to cleanse a well that had been tainted and smelled horribly by the "foulness of the earth". A well in Serault had caused an outbreak of disease which came with fever and diarrhea—and in the worst cases it had also killed the sufferer. To clear the well, the local physician suggested collecting deathroot with gloved hands and preparing it in a specific way to begin the well's purification process.Sickness at the Well
* Deathroot's pods look like "bloated fingertips".
== See also ==
:Drugs and alcohol
:Fauna and flora
== References ==
Category:Objects
Category:Dragon Age: Origins objects
Category:Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening objects
Category:Dragon Age II objects
Category:Dragon Age: Inquisition objects