Editing Questions/Question 94

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    |AskedBy=hanabee
	|DateAsked=2025-05-09
	|QuestionText=Hello! I am also really interested in food-specific stuff, haha. :') The marshland sounds terrible, but would someone be able to find anything interesting to use as ingredients out there? Things that could be used as seasonings/plants/animals/monsters(?!)/etc. Alternatively, could you point me in the direction of other places where characters might find things like that? If not, it's cool, Niki's just the kind of person who likes to explore and look for things to make cooking more interesting, so I think it'd be cool if he could bring stuff back, but he'd still explore either way!<br><br>I know this kind of thing is really specific and probably only relevant to a handful of people LOL SO NO STRESS!! But I appreciate any thoughts you have in advance! 💕
    |DateAnswered=2025-05-11
    |AnswerText=Is not everything edible, if you believe hard enough...? At least once, right?<br><br>For real, though, yes: there will be some things available for foraging in all climes, to a degree, and some of these things will be more seasonal. With regards to real-life parallels, the island of Orexis in particular draws some inspiration from Western Washington-native resources, from berries to mushrooms to plants. While <a href="https://www.trippilot.net/post/edible-berries-of-the-pacific-northwest">this</a> is a long list of berries that can be found in the PNW, not all of these would be available in the wetlands of Asphodel Fields, but some could be depending on their environmental preferences: swamp gooseberry, chokecherry, etc... Some spices and other plants can be foraged for, too, like horsetail, elderflower, and various types of mushrooms. We have a slightly similar answer <a href="https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html?thread=318013#cmt318013">here</a> as well.<br><br>CRITTERS. Waterfowl (mallards, coots, great blue herons, list goes on), rodents (deer mice, creeping vole, beavers), amphibians (rough-skinned newts, long-toed salamanders, Western toads), other birds (red-winged blackbirds, dark-eyed juncos, marsh wrens), and other mammals (raccoons, the occasional mountain lion), for starters... These creatures may be called different things in Karteria, but this sort of diversity is to be expected. They're doing well out there, and are totally unfamiliar with humans! As far as monsters go, there are some of these various animals that are <i>mutated</i>, having extra appendages or eyes or the like, but they seem to get along fine and don't have any special powers. (It is not impossible to find something downright <i>monstrous</i>, but that would be very unusual and worth reporting to Patho-Gen. Who knows, though, it could be in a wilderness near you...)
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