Absynthium Orientalis

This page is about the plant. For the sticky beverage of the same name, see The Green Liquid.
Absynthium Orientalis, or, in the common tongue, the Blue Stranded Lotus, is the plant from which Wolves' Milk and other drugs are derived.
Its seeds and stem contain a powerful opioid and hallucinogen, while its leaves contain a powerful stimulant, making it the gold standard for medical tintinations. Ever since the First Age people in The Northern Continent have been chewing on the leaves a part of druid spirit journeys, and to counteract exhaustion or pain. The drugs are highly addictive. When boiled into a tea, the preparation looks like a sticky, green syrup that produces powerful hallucinations, and, sometimes, total dissociation. When the stimulant is extracted with alcohol from the leaves, it creates the primary ingredient in Wolves' Milk. The plant grows in many places in The Northern Continent, and has small blue flowers and a pale green, jagged leaf. The total plant grows to about six inches tall and prefers rainy, cold environments. It rarely grows in captivity and cannot be reproduced with magic, so wild versions have been known to exist in such places as Wilderfey Wild or Ulgrof's Pass and are cultivated there with utmost care. The best Lotuses are grown on The Southern Continent, however, below the great sandbelt and approaching the southern pole.
==Derivatives==
Several different potent drugs can be made from Absynthium. Addiction and/or tolerance to one derivative tends to make one more at risk for addiction to and/or tolerant of other derivatives. For example, The Purple Whiskey, which is usually not addictive, can be so for someone who has been on Wolves' Milk. 
*Wolves' Milk
*The Green Liquid
*The Purple Whiskey
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