#Magic Flowers

[wgm-beautiful-world]

[justanothernerdtje]

[littlehornedoak]

some magic flowers (Jan 12-15)

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Magical herbs in myths, and of course, therefore, in fantasy.

Long have there been stories of mystical flowers that imbue you with properties of: strength, cunning, wisdom, immortality or...bringing you back from the brink of death or just even from death itself, so long as you haven't been dead for too long.

Always those pesky terms and condition, eh?

This is the story of the Sanjivani Booti (or the Sanjivani flower). A magical flower that can save you from illness, injury, and of course, death!

We begin in the Ramayama (or Rama's Journey/The Journey of Rama). When Lakshmana is wounded by Ravana's son and nearly killed, Hanuman seeks sagely advice on what to do. The king of the varnas (monkey people) and monkey god himself is tasked with an adventure himself:

He must venture through what we know as the Himalayas to Mount Meru (think of this as the South Asian Mt. Olympus for those unaware of the mythology and need an easy comp).

There he will find the magical Sanjivani booti (flower) with which Lakshmana can be saved.

However, his quest would not be easy, and upon coming to the valley of flowers and the appropriate mountain area, he couldn't identify the flower in need.

So... he did what any badass god of strength and cunning would do. He LIFTED the whole mountain and yeeted off with it.

Interestingly, the mountain he yoted/yote? Off with left a scar and...the assumed mountain range from the stories in real life..bears a curiously similar scar ;)

Dronagiri Parvat - Uttarakhand India.

With his out of the box thinking, Hanuman was able to get back in time with the flower to save Lakshmana.

You don't just get magical flowers growing in your back yard.

You gotta quest for 'em in your epics, gorsh darnit!

[gal-with-pastels]

Some magical flowers that i’ve drawn from yesterday and today.

A fire flower that is seen only growing from spots with a current of Molten lava, It is shown to Burn brightly for 3 years once removed from its place of origin.

And a dream and night terror flower, one induces Pleasant dreams while the other Induces Terrifying nightmares. when put into Close Proximity with each other they cause anyone in the vicinity to have Blank dreams whenever they fall asleep.

[superkursunaskr]

[pilferingapples]

some say the goat will end in fire some say in ice from what I've read on the Wikipedia page of past Goat-destroying efforts, I'm pretty sure none of us were reckoning on absolute swarms of hungry birds but birds are also great and will suffice

[thisisnotthenerd]

i don’t think you understand

we have had aabria autumn on d20 since 2020, when she stole the show as myrtle in pirates of leviathan. you could feel her inhabiting that mermaid over a zoom screen. felt like i was watching a mermaid roll around in a life-size martini glass full of vodka with my own eyes.

then she changed the game with mismag in 2021, bringing kids on brooms, personalized props, lighting effects, and projections to the dome, after which she held it down as antiope jones. the reluctant leader, the late bloomer who is not late but merely arriving in her own time.

in 2022 she came back with kisses, with regency, with good society, with flowers and tokens and projections and a willingness to follow up on consequences that never stopped moving. wuvvy my beloved. kill me with the devotion of a life lived in service to the one you love why don’t you.

in 2023 she was the spiciest assassin. fit for the genre in fits for the genre. replacing skalds like she was born to do it. and then burrow’s end. a genre exploration with a splash of the violence of dnd and the tragicomedy of family. beautiful sets, incredible audiovisual effects, and horror both visceral and cosmic.

in 2024? she’s back with wizards baby. she’s taking a 4 episode jaunt of americans becoming wizards in britain and making an adventure of eleven episodes. planets move, the dm screen talks, and the wind is on the rise.

aabria adds such a fun, artistic, genre-bending, cinematic flavor to her time in the dome; it’s no wonder that the Q4 mid-length season is hers.

[fluffygif]

Unbelievably 🤍

[happyheidi]

[wgm-beautiful-world]

[7lizardsinacoat]

SAY HI, PACK OF PIXIES!

Every time I rewatch A Court of Fey and Flowers (or let's be real, any campaign Aabria Iyengar is in or runs), I had more and more wanted to paint her. So I did. Truly one of my favorite and most inspirational DMs, and a fashion icon to boot.

[unacunatura]

june22🌱2024 | eyes of Lina

[cottageaesthetic]

[jazzymini]

flower power! ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.