Treasures

Native Imarel Flora - by T.A. Saunders, B.Kellestine, K.Johnson v3

Crooked Mary is a vine that grows occasionally on gravestones across Imarel, though less frequent in colder climates, such as Zoda and Miroa. Mottled green in color, the vine gets its name from the fact that it never seems to grow in a straight, dangling path, but tends to meander oddly across the gravestone, mausoleum or fencing that one might find it upon. While some consider Crooked Mary growing on a gravestone to be good luck, many gravekeepers find it a nuisance since it grows and spreads so quickly. For the person who harvests Crooked Mary, once properly dried and crumbled, a potent sedative can be created in the form of a tea. The phrase, ‘Drinking down the Crooked Mary, are we?' implies the person in question might be of dull wit.