Ghyll:Wormwood

Oh, yeah, dibbed, my droogie lads. --Doctor Phineas Crank 10:43, 26 Mar 2005 (EST)

Though it is commonly believed that Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway discovered wormwood when she invented the ghoulwood viola, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, she got the idea for her most infamous invention while puffing away on her "modern" vlorm. As the smoke-induced visions began to unfold in her mind, she saw how Memories might be trapped in the ghoulwood and how they might be released through sound before mouldering, trapped in wormwood. It is she who taught us here in Ghyll however, that ghoulwood is only available from dead and neglected wood, that it can be harvested from dead trees or ghost buildings, and that it devolves into wormwood.

The process for finding, harvesting and using wormwood for art and pleasure comes to us from the Journals of Alarius, who used wormwood in his fresco at the Palace of Lost Souls. Presumably, he learned these techniques from artisans in the Far Xurient. It is the psychoactive and theoalchemical properties of the wormwood that produces the now famous visions associated with his work. What else could have you believe you are standing at the point of creation looking down at the universe just created?

The Xurientals have long been aware of the peculiar properties of wormwood and items created with wormwood. It is unknown whow created the first wormwood device which caused its user to have visions, but we do know that the first items of wormwood were imported circa -400 EC. It is believed that this is what drove the foundation of the "Old City" district of Iganefta, which has been long famed for Her exotic markets. It is possible that the first implement imported was, in fact, a vlorm, but this is only supposition. We do know that in -172 EC, the first wormwood was "grown" and harvested in Ghyll.

Some of the best wormwood originates from the Pziqq trees on Kluvat Peak in the south-western edge of Jorvll.

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