Once again a good place to start is at the plant life which
is growing around us right now, and believe me when you start looking into it
you will find some weird and wonderful things, for example the Dragon Tree and
this beautiful star-shaped flower.
And like before you can play around with size and colour.
There are also many amazing extinct plants which you could utilise. Like the
sea lily which sounds as beautiful as the artists rendition.
Searching through mythology again is another great place to
get ideas some of which are hilarious like the vegetable lamb of Tartary a
plant believed to grow sheep as its fruit, or there is the more sinister Ya-te-veo plant with stems resembling serpents, which attacks
anything that comes near it.
Now that you have your plants you will want to write them
down, personally I use a notebook and once again place them in alphabetical
order. First up you will want to write a description of the plant for example.
A tree which can grow
to the size of a mountain, characterized by a thick and tall trunk its branches
sit high and are spread widely apart from one another.
Then I will clarify in what terrain the plant is located and
I will talk about some of its properties, for example perhaps its leaves have
healing properties or its berries are poisonous.
The leaves of which
are haemostatic and are often used to prevent internal bleeding, to do so one
must ground them into a fine powder and mix into an elixir.
Unlike with the bestiary however I typically do not draw a
diagram however you might wish to draw a small illustration for memories sake.
And that is all there is too it. Now that we have all the
natural stuff sorted out for our world it’s time to look at the supernatural
and the magical.
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