Ferngrass
Ferngrass rises in quiet, endless ranks across the skin of Elshore, each stalk growing straight and slender, branching into countless feathery fronds that weave the air into green breath, forming living tides across nearly every plain, meadow, riverbank, terrace, and hillside on the world's open bones. It is not a true grass but a spore-reproducing fern that fills the same ecological niche, enduring drought, frost, flood, and fire with the patience of something older than speech. Under twin dawns, vast fields shimmer like broken mirrors stitched by dew, each blade catching the suns' low light.
Key traits
- At the height of Stormtide, Ferngrass sends out a fine silver drift of spores, blanketing the earth unseen and seeding new life across leagues of open ground.
- Supple fronds bend under the weight of storm and tread, rising again unbroken.
- Ferngrass roots knit the earth together, holding floodplains against the rush of rivers and anchoring the thin soils of high ridges.
- Though coarse and bitter when raw, fronds can be steamed, dried, or ground into coarse meal; mixed with Dewsown Natural History Dewsown Dewsown rises as a slender, jointed reed, each ribbed segment crowned by small whorled fronds that splay like fingers greeting the sky, with plump golden grains dangling in soft... or Sporegrain Natural History Sporegrain Sporegrain stands with quiet, steadfast grace, slender and fernlike, built of finely feathered fronds branching from a dark supple stalk and crowned by golden sporecones cluster... meal it forms the basis of simple porridges and famine loaves.
- Beyond food, Ferngrass is woven into bedding, thatching, and shelter walls throughout Elshore.