Colored Wood of Southern Star Archipelago, Oceania - Prompt #28 A vital trade resource that supports a region or settlement
Prompt #28 A vital trade resource that supports a region or settlement – Colored Wood of Southern Star Archipelago, Oceania
Mostly grown on Arbor Ilse. A dozen lumber mills started in Lumberton under the stipulation that only normal colored wood was to be exported while the exotic-colored wood was studied. Only two sawmills stayed in business until the two-hundred-year ban on exporting the exotic-colored wood ended by selling wood for fuel and supplying the Southern Seas Shipyards. The mineralized wood was extensively studied for two hundred and fifty years, but no one ever completely figured out how the isotopes bonded to the wood to change its color. Medicinal plants grown in the islands are stronger than those grown anywhere else except Meridian 4. There are only about a thousand people who live all year around in the islands. The three largest islands are Brightwater, Golden Ilse, and Arbor Ilse. Due to the nature of the weather, there are no ships or flights to the isle during the winter when massive typhoon sizes storms pound the isle with frozen fury. From late Spring to early Autumn, fishing is also a primary industry and the Massive Oceanic Fishing fleet harvests fish and crabs from the seas of the Southern Star. Another oddity of the islands is the non-native isotopes and stone, believed to come from a meteor impact.
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“I was hired to select wood for a commission on Aetheria . There was some wood imported from Lumberton and Wheattree that was unusually colored. Do you know much about those places?” She favored him with a look he had often gotten from his nieces when they were her age, a look that said of course she knew as she answered, “I have lived here since I was 84. Wheattree is on Golden, we'll sail past there. All the trees on that island have pale to golden wood and the leaves turn yellow in the fall. If we haven't had a bad Southwester, the leaves might still be on the trees. It is so pretty. Arbor Isle has the dark colored woods, cedars and such things that cause allergies. Lumberton is in an old volcanic crater and there are streaks of different colored rock veins. It looks like someone painted the mountains. The trees growing in different mineral soils, that's what makes the wood grain pretty colors, like reds, blues, greens, even purples. All the plants that grow here have stronger properties, the Healers on Aetheria have been studying them since I was a little girl. My father was the first to figure it out.”
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“Brightwater has mostly normal wood, Golden has everything from pale cream to ochre, and some yellow -greens or yellow-oranges. But Arbor has the colored stuff, the two sawmills each have permits to harvest only certain sections and numbers. Nick told me how last year a tree fell wrong and broke two other trees, they tried to salvage what they could because it was blue star wood but most of it was cracked. The cultivated plots are as closely regulated as the wildland growth. The mill owners pay bounties to those who find new colored woods because normal wood will grow around the colored wood.” Yuli sighed as if disappointed. “Wood Finders get a tag fee on every colored tree cut from their find in the forest, but no one wanted gray and black wood.”
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Mostly grown on Arbor Ilse. A dozen lumber mills started in Lumberton under the stipulation that only normal colored wood was to be exported while the exotic-colored wood was studied. Only two sawmills stayed in business until the two-hundred-year ban on exporting the exotic-colored wood ended by selling wood for fuel and supplying the Southern Seas Shipyards. The mineralized wood was extensively studied for two hundred and fifty years, but no one ever completely figured out how the isotopes bonded to the wood to change its color. Medicinal plants grown in the islands are stronger than those grown anywhere else except Meridian 4. There are only about a thousand people who live all year around in the islands. The three largest islands are Brightwater, Golden Ilse, and Arbor Ilse. Due to the nature of the weather, there are no ships or flights to the isle during the winter when massive typhoon sizes storms pound the isle with frozen fury. From late Spring to early Autumn, fishing is also a primary industry and the Massive Oceanic Fishing fleet harvests fish and crabs from the seas of the Southern Star. Another oddity of the islands is the non-native isotopes and stone, believed to come from a meteor impact.
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“I was hired to select wood for a commission on Aetheria . There was some wood imported from Lumberton and Wheattree that was unusually colored. Do you know much about those places?” She favored him with a look he had often gotten from his nieces when they were her age, a look that said of course she knew as she answered, “I have lived here since I was 84. Wheattree is on Golden, we'll sail past there. All the trees on that island have pale to golden wood and the leaves turn yellow in the fall. If we haven't had a bad Southwester, the leaves might still be on the trees. It is so pretty. Arbor Isle has the dark colored woods, cedars and such things that cause allergies. Lumberton is in an old volcanic crater and there are streaks of different colored rock veins. It looks like someone painted the mountains. The trees growing in different mineral soils, that's what makes the wood grain pretty colors, like reds, blues, greens, even purples. All the plants that grow here have stronger properties, the Healers on Aetheria have been studying them since I was a little girl. My father was the first to figure it out.”
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“Brightwater has mostly normal wood, Golden has everything from pale cream to ochre, and some yellow -greens or yellow-oranges. But Arbor has the colored stuff, the two sawmills each have permits to harvest only certain sections and numbers. Nick told me how last year a tree fell wrong and broke two other trees, they tried to salvage what they could because it was blue star wood but most of it was cracked. The cultivated plots are as closely regulated as the wildland growth. The mill owners pay bounties to those who find new colored woods because normal wood will grow around the colored wood.” Yuli sighed as if disappointed. “Wood Finders get a tag fee on every colored tree cut from their find in the forest, but no one wanted gray and black wood.”
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Properties
Physical & Chemical Properties
Mineralized wood grows with colored grain that comes in every color of the rainbow.
Geology & Geography
Most grows on the extinct volcanic island called Arbor Isle in the Southern Star Archipelago, Oceania, Aetheria Prime.
Origin & Source
unknown
Life & Expiration
The colored hardwood is often enchanted after it is worked so it doesn't deteriorate.
History & Usage
History
See Lumberton article
Discovery
Discovered when the planet of Oceania was being mapped.
Everyday use
ornamental
Distribution
Law & Regulation
Illegal lumbering of exotic colored wood is punishable by a century imprisoned. - Protected resource.
Type
Wood
Value
very
Rarity
very
Color
every color - isotopes bonded to the wood to change its color.
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