QIRINA Flora Risk Registry or Q-FRR
Purpose
The QIRINA Flora Risk Registry was established as the first official effort to codify, stabilize, and regulate botanical knowledge across national boundaries. It classifies not only medicinal herbs, fungi, and plant-based materials, but also hazardous, magical, invasive, or psychoactive flora that may affect ecosystems, society, or arcane function.
This foundational document sought to resolve centuries of inconsistent naming, undocumented hazards, and biological misidentification, particularly as increased trade and travel began introducing alien flora into unfamiliar ecosystems. The Registry balances both scientific accuracy and practical field application, ensuring its usefulness to healers, farmers, mages, rangers, and forest wardens alike.
Document Structure
Clauses
Each listed specimen includes:
- Name: The commonly accepted scientific or regional name.
- Region: The biome, country, or magical zone where it naturally occurs or was first documented.
- Use: Any known medicinal, alchemical, culinary, industrial, or magical use.
- Hazard Rating: A combined system using region threat level (A–D), biological severity (1–5), and a binary rarity code representing its abundance (e.g., B - 3.00010).
- Hazard: Descriptions of the plant's negative traits, such as toxicity, arcane interference, invasive behavior, sentience, or spore-based contagion.
These entries were compiled from field data, magical analysis, and folk records across seven primary contributors, with hundreds of living entries that evolve as new species are discovered or altered.
Caveats
The Flora Registry is considered binding policy under the Verdant Accord, a multinational agreement prohibiting the unlicensed transport, sale, or cultivation of flora with a Hazard Rating of A-1 or A-2, or any plant marked Crimson under the former color-coded system.
Further, any species rated Legendary rarity (0.10000) is considered a protected botanical relic, requiring clearance from the Qirinan Bureau of Ecological Stabilization and oversight from at least one representative of its native biome. Poaching such flora is considered a Tier I Ecological Violation, subject to extradition across borders.
Legal status
Vol. I represents a historic botanical alliance forged between the nations of:
- Esliviel, who contributed elven longform herbariums, moon-encoded growth cycles, and fey symbiotic studies.
- Utril, whose icy tundra researchers provided high-altitude resilience data and frost-bound moss studies.
- Sylvan, known for chaotic and wild flora, provided input through its archdruids and volatile bloom census.
- Lothenar, whose deep forests and hidden archives contributed rare medicinal funguses and ley-reactive plants.
- Qirina, who led the logistical and taxonomic standardization across cultures and oversaw field deployment.
- Zola, who added desert-adapted species and spiritual flora with dream-binding or memory-altering effects.
- Accendus, contributing rugged alpine flora and volcanic growthforms with metallurgic hybrid properties.
- Durrozhonth, reluctantly provided a handful of necrotic-rooted species used in strength-based rituals and chemical defoliants.
Though Qirina serves as the document’s official steward, each participating country has a rotating seat on the Green Council, the botanical oversight body responsible for updating classifications and enforcing protective statutes.
Historical Details
Background
The QIRINA Flora Risk Registry was born in response to the Sporeveil Catastrophe of 310 V.C., when an unclassified airborne fungus from Sylvan spread via unchecked caravan routes, leading to a mass hallucination and hive-mind outbreak that crippled six major towns.
This event forced previously aloof governments to collaborate, leading to a continental field expedition effort and the subsequent signing of the Verdant Accord in 312 V.C. The original draft of the Registry was scribed in triplicate—one held in Qirina’s Vault of Living Knowledge, another kept by the druids of Lothenar, and the third engraved into a Worldtree bark scroll in Esliviel.
Public Reaction
Vol. I is regarded as a civilizational cornerstone in arcane and mundane botany. It’s mandatory reading in magical institutions, enforced in the licensing of herbalists, and required on the person of all long-range rangers, royal botanists, and ley-wardens.
Among the commonfolk, it is best known through its pocket-sized abridged version, The Green Ledger, a simplified fieldbook that identifies risk-color equivalents, folk names, and symptoms for common poisonous or mind-affecting flora.
Druids have a more reverent relationship with the Registry. While some opposed the idea of classifying and binding the natural world, others embraced the opportunity to prevent magical imbalance, preserve species, and guide cultivation with greater awareness and wisdom.
Legacy
The QIRINA Flora Risk Registry laid the groundwork for the later Volumes of the Natural Classification series, including Vol. II: The Faunal Stability Compendium, and Vol. III: The Ore & Mineral Risk Registry. Its format has been replicated in several arcane universities and inspired a number of secondary works including The Fungarium Codex and The Druidic Fieldflow Journal.
It also reshaped how magic interacts with nature, encouraging the rise of floraturgy, a school of botanical magic rooted in sustainable manipulation of living plants. Cross-border agricultural councils were founded in its wake, and species extinction rates have significantly declined across contributor nations.
Term
The Registry is under continual review, updated annually during the Bloommeet Summit, a gathering of the Green Council’s delegates and local bioregional stewards. New flora discoveries are added via submission to the Qirinan Bureau, reviewed by representatives of at least two native contributors to ensure cross-biome accuracy.
With over 1,300 logged species, the QIRINA Flora Risk Registry continues to grow each year, documenting not only the dangers of nature, but the interwoven harmony of life across even the most disparate ecosystems.
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