Drakes Tail

Artwork by -name- Drake's Tail Area: Deserts near Oasis Size: Medium Edibility: Poisonous Alchemy Symbol: Fire Alchemy Tier: Strong Note: This herb cannot be obtained mechanicaly, this is purely a lore herb.

The elegant, yet unforgiving legend of the Desert, Drake’s Tail. Most often you will find Drake's Tail it in the shade, not so far away from an Oasis due to how the heat it still there, but the soft moisture of the Oasis can still be caught within the air. Of course there is not a one-hundred percent guarantee that it will be there, and this is only to help facilitate one’s search for it. Spotting Drake’s Tail is mildly easy, due to its dusky color, its thin but long sharp thorns that jut from its dry surface, and its affinity to wrap around a rock. Drake’s Tail a very rare herb in the fact that although it is resilient, strong, and quite sharp it only grows in very particular conditions of moisture, dryness, and humidity.

Effects on use

When gathering Drake's Tail, one must be careful though, for the thorns are laden with a fever-inducing poison that keeps all manners of animals away. Besides it's poison utilities, the plant only has alchemical uses.

Alchemical uses

Drake’s Tail is the veritable pinnacle of the herb-based symbol for the element of Fire, being a Strong Fire Symbol. Even though there are more powerful, non-herb symbols in the world for Fire, one must realize that Drake’s Tail, the blackened briar of the Desert, is the finest one that you can gather without having to kill something. If one wishes to harvest drake’s tail, you’d best try to take the entire briar itself, for both the root and the thorns must be used for its full power. Drake’s Tail is best used in Fire-centric potions, obviously, and it can take on the representation of any quality of fire, a rare aspect for any ingredient in the alchemist’s domain.