Horizons Beauty
"Horizons Beauty; one of the most coveted flowers in the world, but also one of the hardest to aquire. To the right alchemist it's worth an immense amount, but to the right person, it's priceless." – Katarina Bladverk's guide to Botany "You don't know why it's called Horizons Beauty? Because both sunset and sunrise start at the horizon, you dunce!" – Unknown
Basic Information
Anatomy
Horizons Beauty is a small mountain flower with several notable characteristics. It is about as large as the common garden flower, with a stem long enough that the flower can be held in one hand without risking its petals. Said petals are most often white, but when in full bloom, it will shift to a colouration of a range of bright colours not unlike those of the rainbow.
Ecology and Habitats
Whilst not neccesarily hard to grow on the ground level, Horizons Beauty is naturally found mostly in mountains and highlands where it thrives in the relatively poor soil that cannot sustain any but the hardiest of weeds. If grown at ground level, it is reccomended that only similar poor soil is used and that the flower in question is regularly checked for weed and parasites.
Additional Information
Uses, Products & Exploitation
What is perhaps the most notable thing about Horizons Beauty is its use. When ground up and added to water, it forms the basis for a number of concoctions that work to change the body of the being drinking it, from simple changes like increased hair growth to more complex ones, such as the complete reshaping of vocal cords or even bone. If one desires to change multiple areas of the body it often involves a regimen of several different potions administered over a relevant period of time, all derived from Horizons Beauty.
Whilst not banned in any realm, few save for those in the southwestern isles produce it in any large capacity as it is often seen as strange, unnatural or harmful to change ones body by using consuming a potion like the ones mentioned above. The alchemists in these southern islands have therefore stepped in to provide for the many travelling from across all Kontinent who wish to aquire these alchemical extracts, either from labs of particular renown such as Herbal Restoratives & Transformatives found in the Great Market of Mündungshafen or from one of the smaller labs that are part of the Titenfiscan Alchemists guild.
It should be noted that the changes produced by consumption of these potions are not painless and the common practice of supervised rest and the ingestion of concoctions to induce dreamless rest should be followed in as great of a capacity as possible.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Horizons Beauty is found all over Kontinent, but primarily in regions that are mountainous or cold for a large amount of the year which often also hosts the sort of earth the flower requires for growth. One notable region is the Northern forests, whose cold climate and comparatively poor soil allows the flower to thrive even in areas that are not particularly mountainous.
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