Part II: Plants and Fungi

On this shelf stand the trees, plants, fungi, and crops of Caeldon and of the planes and zones. The crops come first in the peoples' lives: the bread wheat of the basins, the flax and hemp that clothe and rope the river country. Beneath the Elderweald the Dark Elf houses live under the living root of the forest, whose faint glow, the gloam, is the only light their country makes of itself.

Thorn grows into the hedges that judge who may approach the Briarreach; in the Verdant Expanse a seed can become a forest in an hour, and the herb-hunters who go there for the rare kinds are a short-lived trade. Under the lord’s gallows grows the root that poisoners prize and the clergy burn. The spores of the Dark Entities stand here too: they are not fungi of this world, but they behave enough like fungi that people name them so.