Substances

Substances on Roshar include various naturally occurring poisons, antiseptics, numbing/stimulating agents, sedatives, sealing agents, plants, herbs, seeds, and wines. Amongst those mentioned thus far are the following:
* Backbreaker powder is a very lethal poison. It was used by Kabsal in his attempt to assassinate Jasnah.
* Blackbane is one of Roshar's most deadly natural poisons. It has a narrow, dark green leaf with a point divided in three; a trefoil prong. It had to be dried out before reaching its potency.
* Clema is a grain that is a labor-intensive crop to cultivate, but also a profitable one. Clemabread is made from it.
* Conicshell mucus is used for the numbing of a wound.
* Dyes from various sources are used to color clothing on Roshar.
* Fathom bark is used for pain.
* Firemoss is an addictive substance that is a native form of plant life to Roshar.
* Fourleaf sap is a salve that prevents infection.
* Gulket sap, from the plant's leaves, when rubbed on sore muscles, makes them feel warm and cold at the same time.
* Knobweed milk or knobweed sap is a powerful antiseptic, created from knobweed.
* Lavis is a grain that is a labor-intensive crop to cultivate, but also a profitable one. From it are made beer, ale and liquor (or hard honu).
* Lister's oil is a salve that prevents infection.
* Larmic mucus is a cheap antiseptic.
* Longroot can be used to make stew and tastes faintly of minerals. Easily cultivated brown roots, they grow in cracks in stone where water collects after storms. They are sticky when sliced into and likely layered with crem on the outside.
* Stumpweight sap extract is used as a simple emulsifier.
* Tallew is a grain that is a labor-intensive crop to cultivate, but also a profitable one.
* Treb is a grain that is planted in cracks in stone, as it can survive flooding.
* Weevilwax is a sealant for messages within envelopes sent between contacts. There is a standing mirror within Dalinar's rooms at Urithiru that is framed by a border which has the look of something that had been carved first in weevilwax, then Soulcast into hardwood.
* Whispermill seeds are akin to lifespren, according to Lift, when the seeds glow.
* Winterwort is a bitter tasting plant, used to induce sleep. Crushed into a powder, mixed with oil and one spoonful per ten brickweight of the person one is drugging, it will induce a deep sleep for about five hours. Its bitterness makes it safer to keep than other alternatives, since people won't eat it by accident.
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