Foraging
The skill of gathering plants, fibers, and herbs from the wild. Foragers supply the fibers tailors weave into cloth, the medicinal herbs alchemists brew into potions, and the ingredients cooks add to their meals.
21 Foraging
Learn to strip coarse bast fiber from wild hemp stalks.
Learn to cut and bind the realm's most common cereal.
Learn to strip dark berries from scrubby roadside bushes.
Learn to strip long linen fibers from wild flax stems.
Learn to pick red berries from arching, thorn-lined canes.
Learn to cut tall gray-green stalks from thin, windy ground.
Learn to cut bearded barley without catching on its awns.
Learn to pick soft white fiber from wild cotton bolls.
Learn to reach past true thorns for pale amber-green berries.
Learn to find laden currant bushes by their musky scent.
Learn to cut the short, heavy foxtails of wild millet.
Learn to take fine, silky fiber from stinging nettle stalks.
Learn to draw silk threads from lotus stems before they dry.
Learn to take crowned ruby fruit from woody shrubs.
Learn to wade the paddies and cut rice from standing water.
Learn to judge when teardrop figs are finally ripe.
Learn to catch glowing silver down from moonthistle heads.
Learn to cut glowing sunwheat without losing the afternoon.
Learn to gather cloud-fine fiber at the fog-drowned rims.
Learn to spot fruiting vines on fog-wreathed mistwood stumps.
Learn to find and cut moongrain by its own pale light.
