Gritty Bush
Gritty bush is a small woody plant with coarse leaves and pungent oil. When rubbed, its leaves foam. It can be used for washing, masking scent, and cleansing.
Magic Lands Survival Guide
Plants, Roots, and Medicines of Doamanse
In Doamanse, plants are not background.
They wash, sting, nourish, heal, poison, hide scent, mark danger, feed companions, and carry memory. To survive the Inlands or Country, a person must know what grows — and what each growing thing asks in return.
Doamanse’s plant lore makes the world tactile: survival depends on knowledge, not just courage.
Plant Guide
The plants of Doamanse carry practical uses, cultural memory, and sometimes danger.
Stinging
Stinging has long pleated leaves and a sweet scent but burns or itches when touched. It can be used to repel or remove suckers and to form protective circles.
Dark Root and Light Root
Dark root and light root are staple foods, often paired for balance. They ground the Inlander diet in the practical rhythms of survival.
Bittersweet
Bittersweet is a wiry bush with silvery-green leaves and a sweet-bitter taste. It offers comfort and may have calming associations.
Restoratives, Wound-Care, and Dangerous Growth
Some plants restore strength. Some seal wounds. Some open darker questions.
Long Sap
Long sap is a precious restorative or stimulant. It is valuable enough that losing or depleting it matters.
Cake-Mud
Cake-mud is a wet/dry mud preparation used on skin and wounds. It can help stop bleeding, protect wounds, and prevent infestation.
Scatter Bush
Scatter bush produces dangerous pods and seeds. It is tied to poison, second sight, dependence, and some of Doamanse’s darker magical questions.
Meat Trees
Meat trees are Kerry’s trees, producing meat-like fruit through care, song, and life liquid. They connect domestic survival to tree singing and deeper living magic.
Why Plants Matter
Doamanse’s plant lore is part of the living grammar of the world.
Survival Knowledge
Plants show that survival depends on learning, memory, caution, and the ability to read the land.
Domestic Magic
Kerry’s tree singing begins with care for living trees, showing how magic can be practical before it becomes epic.
Tactile Worldbuilding
Foam, sting, sap, mud, root, taste, scent, and fruit make the Magic Lands feel touched as much as seen.
Enter the Magic Lands
Begin with Magic Lands: Journey Beyond the Beyond, where Ray leaves the living Inlands and discovers that his path reaches far beyond home.