In the latest session I ran, my players attended the wedding of one of their friends. At the end, the bride tossed a bouquet (13 flowers, natch) of Tycherosi roses, which pricked two players before landing safely in the hands of a third. Tycherosi roses naturally emit red bio-luminescence (the rarest color) from their petals, have very sharp thorns, and can live forever even after being picked as long as you sprinkle just a few drops of blood on their thorns once every week or so. The Leech recalled a (false) rumor that if you planted one in a freshly-dead corpse, it would grow throughout the body and bring it to “life” like some kind of morbid puppet. What are some other rumors about Tycherosi roses?
In the latest session I ran, my players attended the wedding of one of their friends.
In the latest session I ran, my players attended the wedding of one of their friends.
Their scent can attract deathseeker crows (and other creatures sensitive to death).
Getting pricked by the thorns makes ghosts seek you out. Eating one of the petals lets you live out the death of someone in the city.
If you give one to your love on the last day of every month for a year, it will ensure that your ghosts are able to find each other once you’re dead.
Tea made from roses with an odd number of petals works as a powerful aphrodisiac. Tea from roses with an even number of petals is quite poisonous.
This is the origin of “He loves me/he loves me not”.
If you brew a tea made from the petals, no demon can harm you while you drink it… until the tea gets cold or you finish the cup, whatever comes first.
Do NOT offer a sip to the demon.
Placing a Tycherosi rose on a corpse causes the spirit to manifest. A single rose can ‘feed’ a ghost for a week.
The blood of a demon will turn them a dull black and they will never regain their vibrance.