Questions/Question 417

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit rakta asked on FAQ/Main FAQ at 2025-11-06 Answer date: 2025-11-13	Hello!! I am piggybacking off this old question for some character related shenanigans. Lauralae is going to be attempting to harvest and grow some of the plants mentioned above, and using her Druidic powers + possibly Dorothea's Terra-type powers, to help encourage them to grow. Just a couple of Qs about it! 1. If she attempted to grow these somewhere, such as in "The Woods", would that be successful with the support of the double magic? The forests have that deadly-adjacent nature, so it might be tricky, so I wanted to make sure before we did anything. 2. Sort of following from above - if she did try to grow things (for herself and for the Clinic), would it be something that Patho-Gen would easily notice, or would she be able to get away with it being a little sneaky? 3. Lauralae is a Spectral type, but her powers are Druidic from her background/fae elf heritage. Would her powers work with Dorothea's, or would it end up more of a clash due to it being "different"? Lae would offer to help teach Thea about plant powers, but if it clashes that would be both sad and funny. 4. Lauralae used to trade herbs/poisons/etc when she was in her own world. Would the new business things permit her to set that kind of thing up here, or would she be urged to work more closely with Law and the Clinic for that route? AND FINALLY, SORRY FOR ALL THE QUESTIONS 5. She wants to grow poisons. Will there be any significant issues with growing/selling poisons? Are there any particularly poisonous plants/etc she might be able to find other than the ones mentioned above? Thank you in advance and sorry for the both random and specific nature of these!	1. If the plants she's attempting to grow are at all suited to more of a 'wilderness' habitat (that is, not requiring the close tending and protection of a greenhouse, or a garden bed tucked next to a house), then their combination should work just fine! 2. If she were growing things outside Karteria, Patho-Gen would have a harder time knowing about it. It wouldn't be impossible for them to find out, but the lands outside Karteria are vaster than the city, and it would be an absurd waste of vigilance to track something like this. Even if they did know, they would be unlikely to do anything about it. Were she to grow things within the city, she would probably have to be a little sneaky to avoid detection (also, the amount of space to run a garden is fairly limited). They would still not intervene (nothing wrong with gardens!), or even comment unless they learned she was growing something particularly dangerous. Even then, it would be more about checking in, seeing what her intentions were. 3. This could go either way, as desired! It's possible that her Druidic background and Dorothea's Terra nature have enough commonality that they're able to 'grow' off one another, as it were. The plants may be different, but they're still plants, they still have similar needs and wants and might listen to the same coaxing, even if the language isn't quite the same. Or it could turn out to be terribly discordant. Her heritage could be adapted to her own world's flora, and run contrary to Terra magic, approaching it from an angle too alien to translate, a communication that's stymied before it starts. Really, it's up to whatever you'd find more interesting. 4. Patho-Gen (and the Government) would be naturally somewhat cautious of an Augmented deliberately producing and selling outright poison. It would depend somewhat on the direction of the poison (is it herbicide, or for pest control? is it specifically to hurt people?). They would prefer that if this trade was happening, it was going through Law and the Clinic, so that there was some manner of oversight going on. But if she got a license of her own that could also work, and she would be permitted to sell her goods on her own. Apothecary work is serious/dangerous enough that they would prefer it to be done officially in some form. Of course, she could go the unregulated route and do as she likes... she'd just have to be careful about it. 5. The kinds of plants available would be akin to the ones mentioned earlier, but could also include more fantastical varieties, if there's some specific need or effect you're after. Any issues with selling them would be the same as noted above, in that both the Government and Patho-Gen would want this to be regulated and traceable. But with sufficient amounts of paperwork anything is possible.