Are there any types of mushrooms the villagers of Blustich harvest from the edges of The Hermit’s Wood around the start of Winter in Cormyr?
Thank you, Ed, as always. 1)
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These villagers harvest three edible sorts of mushrooms; luckily, they are easily distinguished from locally-growing poisonous fungi. I’ve listed them in descending order of abundance. They are all very rare elsewhere. 3)
1. Uttercaps (“fairy clusters”), which are small clusters of 5-8 nut-brown mushroom caps about the size of the end-joint of an adult human thumb, all growing on very dark brown (almost black), slender stems about as long as an…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020
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…adult human hand. These taste like roasted almonds, and can be eaten raw or fried in butter or boar fat. Some folk add them to brandy, which they ‘taint’ into a nutty, buttery, almost cinammony taste. Children of Blustich… 5)
…habitually eat these as snacks when playing outdoors.
2. Khondyn (“mushroom pies”) are dun-brown, flat-topped circular mushrooms that look like perfectly horizontal plates, set on stalks. As they pass pleasant edibility, … #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020
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…they turn dark brown, then black and glistening as they rot (still edible, without harm, but no longer pleasant to the taste). A Khondyn, unlike most mushrooms, is a full meal for an adult; very filling, and with a taste very… 7)
…like breaded chicken. Can be eaten raw, or fried (sharpens the taste into a “sharp cheddar cheese”-like quality), or baked atop bread or flatbread dough to give it a cheesy taste.
3. Thoud (pronounced “thood”) are rare, …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020
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…unpleasant-looking fungi spikes that look like gray-white shucked corncobs growing vertically up from the ground (their tough, strong stalks are so short that the rest of the mushroom hides them from all eyes that aren’t… 9)
…right at ground level, but are as strong as, and look a bit like, the stalk a pumpkin grows on). Their looking-like-corn-kernels tiny outer-surface pustules are spore-sacs, not kernels that can break off; these eventually…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020
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…dry out, rupture, and release smoke-like threads of fine, dust-like gray-black spores for the wind to spread. Raw thoud have the consistency of raw potato, but baked thoud turn fluffy; raw or cooked are equally edible, and… 11)
…share a “buttered popcorn with dill or garlic or chives dressing” taste. The taste varies in herb-like quality depending on their soil (sandier is closer to dill, rich soil is most like garlic, in between is like chives).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2020