Flora and Fauna

**The flora and fauna** of Erthia are diverse and varied. Many types of flora have meanings to the different races of the Western Realm.

## Flora: Plants

 **Notes:** | Chosen for wands to smoothly amplify magic

 **Notes:** | Chosen for wands to smoothly amplify magic

Tessla Harrow's wand
 **Notes:** | It's traditional for Gardnerians' homes to be made of this wood, and to be styled in designs that look like forests and trees.
Ironflowers are exacting and complicated to handle.

 **Notes:** | It's as dense as granite.

 **Known Locations:** | Verpacia
 **Notable Examples:** | Stoves in the labs at Verpax University
Lukas Grey's military tent fireplace
The Mage Council Hall torches burn Verpacian Elm oil
 **Notes:** | It's smokeless with a hot and musky smell when burnt.

Briarsweet
Black-cherry
Beeswellin
Arniss root

 **Notes:** | Makes the cheapest, most poorly made wands. They work against power more than they work with it.

Sage Gaffney uses it but doesn't know her light magery renders it ineffective.
 **Notes:** | It's brown, soft, and has a nutty flavor. It's illegal in Gardneria.

 **Notes:** | Elloren Gardner finds it soothing.
Wood from the Snow Oak enhances magic by coaxing affinity lines to life.

 **Notes:** | It's dense and strong.

### Miscellaneous Plants

* **Black Cherry**: Used as the central support beams of several rooms in the Council Hall.
* **Mountain Oak**: Used as the frames for oil paintings in the Council Hall.
* **Black Walnut**: Used as the flooring in the Council Hall.
* **Mountain Spruce**: Used as support beams for Lukas Grey's military tent.
* **Scarlet Elm**: Has red serrated leaves and a deeply furrowed trunk. Used in Gardnerian carriages.
* **Lacebark Pine**: A soft, flimsy, porous wood. It's cheap. Used in the Mage Guard carriages.
* **Black Oak**: it has a textured trunk. Used to make items like hairbrushes and canopy posts for beds.
* **Silver Spruce**: An incredibly rare tree. It's an exquisitely gnarled fir tree with needles limned in silver. Used as Elloren and Lukas's Sealing tree.
* **Rainbow Eucalyptus**: It has a color-striped trunk and is from the Salish Islands.
* **Dragon's Blood**: Has a dramatically upturned crown.
* **Uriskal Beech**: Is draped in a gauzy moss.
* **Alfsigr Wisteria**: Has fragrant silver flowers hannginng down in pendulous, emerald-tinted clusters.
* **Silver Pine**: Has a sharp and spicy smell.
* **Caledonian Sithoy**: Immense evergreen trees with gigantic crenulated trunks. It has bloodred wood and black needles. They are famous all over Erthia.
* **Sitka Spruce**: They have thick needles, scaled trunks, and pendulous cones. They're perfect for transmitting sound so Elloren and Edwin used them to make violins.
* **Red Manzanita**: A bloodred tree with thick oval leaves a vivid plum color found in the Northwestern Agolith Desert.
* **Striped Baobab**: A massive, black, ballooning tree with water-filled trunks found in the Northwestern Agolith Desert.
* **Black Date**: A tree found in the Northwestern Agolith Desert.
* **Golden Yucca**: A tree found in the Northwestern Agolith Desert.
* **Sea Pines**: Found on the Fae Islands.

## Fauna: Animals

Patches: Tessla's calico cat
*Vorn'in*: Vale's black, short-haired, yellow-eyed cat
*Strill'ian*: Vale's black, large, fluffy, green-eyed cat
Gwynnifer Croft has a striped ginger cat and a fluffy black cat

 **Notable Examples:** | Vale Gardner and Jules Kristian use them to communicate

 **Notes:** | They used to b a rare sight, but for some reason they're being drawn closer and closer to Gardneria.
They swim in swarms, usually keeping to one direction.

 **Notes:** | One of the most deadly type of scorpion in Erthia.

Frezian: Large and black in color
Uriskal Thoroughbreds: Has green hair