Virid Kingdom (Category)
List of plants and animals in the Virid Kingdomplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid
Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life..
Plants
| Amber reed | Amber reed The amber reed is a virid plant found in tropical wetlands, particularly in northwestern Anásthias. It has been cultivated for millennia for its resin, amberglass, which hardens to a glass-like material used for numerous applications. Selective breeding has created many varieties of amber reed, which yield resins of differing colour, strength and viscosity. |
| Balbal | Balbal Balbal are virid trees native to the arid central regions of Anásthias, with a distinctive pear-shaped trunk. Their roots are squeezed by desert dwellers as a nutritious, if unappetising milk, as well as other food uses. They are a particular feature of the Anásthiasviridvirid |
| Bluefern | Bluefern Bluefern is a virid plant with distinctive blue feathery fronds, found principally in the temperate uplands of Anásthias. Its white tendrilous roots are ground and dried to form a potent narcotic known as sylin. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about virid |
| Cable fruit | Cable fruit Cable fruit are the fruit of the cable tree, a virid plant which flourishes near water, both fresh and salt. They bear a large ball-like fruit with a tough leathery skin. Cable fruit are buoyant, and therefore allow the plant to spread across large distances. |
| Candlenut | Candlenut Candlenuts are the fruit of a virid shrub, whose oil is used for lighting, a variety of domestic and industrial uses, and refined for human consumption. Candlenut bushes are native to southern Otekahré, Munatan and the virid jungles of southwestern Ororr, where they form part of the staple diet.viridvirid |
| Creal | Creal The creal bush is a virid shrub native to the Manthi-lien. It is pyriscent, releasing its seeds during brush fires, which clear the undergrowth allowing seedlings to germinate. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about Plants and Flora. Mature bushes have leaves and trunk impregnated with a flammable aromatic resin, which is distilled into an essential oil valued for its earthy fragrance. In virid |
| Dragora | Dragora The dragora is a virid tree found in swamps and coastal salt marshes. The trunks are have characteristic scales that give them a repitilian appeareance, with glossy, spiny leaves and limbs. The trunk's fleshy inner core holds a reserve of water and nutrients, enabling them to survive both during droughts or low |
| Evernessence | Evernessence Evernessence is the narcotic extract of the evernut, the buds of a perennial virid shrub native to the upland jungles of central southern Anásthias. It was traditionally used by shamans of the Essep people as part of initiation and social rituals. Its use later spreading amongst the |
| Goldmane | Goldmane Goldmane is an epiphytic virid plant often found growing in the nexial branches of virid, and sometimes green, trees. Goldmane is so named for it's golden hair-like fronds which are the plant's fruiting body, dispersing spor into the air. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about |
| Greenwing | Greenwing Greenwing, known as vunndalt [voon-dalt] in Anásthias from the Daltirich name, is a virid climbing plant valued for its medicinal purposes. It is native to warm virid jungles and even some green forests, growing on dead greenwood or climbing rocky outcrops. It is relatively rare, found in upland and mountainous regions.green |
| Handfruit | Handfruit Handfruit are carpel-like growths of the handfruit bush, a virid plant native to virid jungles in the southwest of Anásthias. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about Plants and Flora. They produce a composite body with multiple “fingers”, often fused together with the outer ones curled and the central fingers erect. They were adopted as a symbol of the viridTheristvirid |
| Imble | Imble Imble is a virid plant native to tropical swamplands, where it flourishes due to its strength, flexibility, and tolerance to salt. The tree-like trunk is bulbous with a thick grey skin. Its core is a mass of fleshy strands which given the plant strength and function to regulate its internal salinity.virid |
| Ironoke | Ironoke Ironoke is a large variety of virid tree found and cultivated throughout Anásthias. They grow slowly but to an enormous size, with a large canopy and characteristic dark brown bole. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about Plants and Flora. Ironoke produce the hardest known wood, which evolved to be resistant to fire and virid |
| Jia | Jia Jia is a herbal infusion made from the jia vine, consumed throughout the Civilised World. Jia is almost always served hot as a stimulant drink, said to have a cool, refreshing tingling sensation on the tongue. Food and Drink This is in a series of articles about Food and Drink. Cultivation viridOrorrviridgreengreen |
| Jikitaga | Jikitaga Jikitaga is a virid climbing plant with slender spiked leaves and vicious thorns. In nature it often grows around dead or dying virid trees, but it is often used by humans as a boundary plant for its impenetrable thorns and poisonous leaves that cause painful blisters on human skin.virid |
| Limeta | Limeta The limeta is a virid tree which grows in the tropical regions, particularly in northern and coastal Anásthias. The fruits are round with dark green leathery skin and distinctive red flesh. They are one of the few virid fruits grown for human consumption, havin a sweet and distinctively acrid taste. virid |
| Pelchek | Pelchek Pelchek (also pelseq) is a virid plant which yields a sharp citric spice particularly favoured in Hartheran cuisine. Food and Drink This is in a series of articles about Food and Drink. Pelchek is a parasitic plant found in stands of older virid jungle. Its seed pods are small, multi-lobed and a purple-red colour. When eaten by foraging animals, the pod is digested, while the small hard seeds are passed out as dung which helps the seedlings germinate and grow. virid |
| Peupra | Peupra Peupra [peh-ERR-pra] is a deep purple-blue dye, obtained from the marsh peurpra, a virid plant native to marshy areas of western Munatan. Historically it grew in abundance in the swamps surrounding the city of Nepor, and was a famous export of that city. Flora |
| Pirpounk | Pirpounk The pirpounk is a variety of virid bush native to dry or semi-arid habitats, particularly in the desert plains of central and eastern Anásthias. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about Plants and Flora. It is related to the balbal with a similarly bulbous root and a long tapering trunk, with an abundance of long, fur-like fronds growing from the top which sway in the breeze. These fronds serve several purposes. Firstly they trap insects and other small animals, which a… |
| Raintree | Raintree The raintree is a variety of virid tree adapted to arid regions, found mainly in the tropical deserts and plains of Anásthias. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about Plants and Flora. Raintrees have a scaly white or dun-coloured skin, with numerous up-pointing limbs. They cope with arid conditions by growing fine, hair-like air roots from their branches. These normally lay flat, giving the limbs a hairy appearance. In the cool hours before dawn they become erect, catch… |
| Simmony | Simmony Simmony [SIM-on-nee] is a bush native to the Eastern Isles, whose stems are a spice valued for its warm, piquant flavour. Food and Drink This is in a series of articles about Food and Drink. Cultivation Simmony bushes are virid plants which flourish on the dry seaward slopes of the island of Sfize. Simmony was one of the first important exports from the islands, hence the word |
| Spices | Spices Spices are condiments derived from the fruits, seeds and roots of virid plants. Most have a pungent or acrid flavour, and most are toxic if eaten in large quantities, but a pinch of them can add depth of flavour or piquancy to green foodstuffs. Condiments derived from virid |
| Spor | Spor Spor are the single-celled reproductive units of virid plants, distinct from seeds or spores found in the green kingdom. Most spor are airborne, release from spor-pods, the fruiting bodies of virid plants. Many spor are motile with rudimentary flagella, either fertilising mature plants, or randomly bonding with the spor of other plants and settling to make a new plant seedling.viridviridvirid |
| Thornbrush | Thornbrush Thornbrush is a virid shrub found in the drier parts of Anásthias. Its leaves grow vicious hand-length thorns preventing grazing by animals. The plant is commonly used to mark boundaries and to provide fencing for animals. Unusual for a virid plant, it is more toxic to viridviridvirid |
| Tida | Tida Tida [TEE-da], sometimes called tida-pepper, is a spice common in Ororran cuisine and used as a condiment throughout Anásthias. Food and Drink This is in a series of articles about Food and Drink. Tida is the seed kernel of the tida fern, a virid plant which flourishes in humid, shady areas. The ferns produce fruiting pods which grow tightly wound and unfurl as they mature, opening and releasing their airborne |
| Veilspor | Veilspor Veilspor is a type of virid decompositional mould which covers dead and dying organisms in a cobweb-like veil. It is often seen in virid forests surrounding fallen trees, dead branches and sickly vegetation. It is sometimes found in poorly maintained human dwellings, particularly in basements and dark abandoned rooms. If left untreated it slowly engulfs whole buildings.virid |
| Virid scrubland | Virid scrubland Virid scrubland is a region where low-growing virid vegetation is the predominant life. Scrubland is often the result of thin poor soils and low rainfall. It can also be an intermediate landscape in areas destroyed by fire. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about |
| Virispurge | Virispurge Virispurges are a family of virid plants found in hot and dry climates through Helevos. They have adaptations similar to green kingdom euphorbias, and are often called cacti though they are entirely unrelated to similar green plants. Flora herbs This is in a series of articles about |
| Zinobeb | Zinobeb Zinobeb, from the Essep sjinnobeb, is a virid plant valued for the bittersweet aromatic spice procured from drying and grinding its stems and seed pods. Food and Drink This is in a series of articles about Food and Drink. Zinobeb is characteristic of central and west Ororran cuisine, where it is rubbed into meat as a marinade or before slow roasting, but also in the upland cuisine of |
Animals
| Banshee | Banshee Banshee are virid gliding creatures with thin bodies and a very long wingspan. They are not capable of true flight, instead being gliding animals, launching themselves from tall trees or precipices and riding updrafts. Fauna This is in a series of articles about virid |
| Bisiavir clam | Bisiavir clam The bisiavir clam is a virid mollusc filter-feeder with a soft shell, found particularly in shallow tropical coastal shelves in northern Anásthias. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. The clams are harvested for sea silk, a thin tough flexible fibre excreted by the creatures to secure themselves to rocks. |
| Bloodstones | Bloodstones Bloodstones are a type of virid rockfish found in coastal waters throughout Helevos. Mature bloodstones sit in clusters on the sea bed and look very much like small rocks, though when cracked open, they have a vibrant red flesh inside which exudes a quantity of red liquid very much like virid |
| Borers | Borers Borers are virid arthropods with a set of powerful mandibles that allow them to feel on tough materials. Most consume virid wood and plant material, though some species also consume carrion and can drill their way into bone. Fauna This is in a series of articles about viridvirid |
| Brass ant | Brass ant Brass ants are thumb-sized, eight-limbed virid creatures, named for their brass-coloured iridescent exoskeleton. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. Despite the name they are arthropods, not insects. They are scavengers found in warm environments throughout |
| Butterfish | Butterfish Butterfish are virid fish found in cold waters far from the south coast of Anásthias, and in the Polassirn Ocean north of Anrel. Butterfish are carnivorous, feeding from a diversity of smaller sea creatures. Some varieties like the gurnjaw also consume cold water crustaceans and filter feeders. |
| Crocodon | Crocodon Crocodons are semi-aquatic virid predators found in rivers and swampy wetlands throughout tropical Anásthias. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. They have long slender bodies, with four pairs of paddle-like limbs allowing them to move with moderate speed over muddy land, but with great speed in the water. They have a long slender snout filled with sharp teeth, with which they capture prey. They spend most of their time in rivers and riverbanks, though they are k… |
| Drort | Drort Drort are domestic animals found throughout Anásthias, seen pulling wagons and every type of commercial and domestic conveyance. Unusually for domestic livestock they are virid creatures, omnivorous and unusually tolerant to green grazing, nibbling virid weeds and pests common in roadsides and hedgerows. They are rarely seen in virid |
| Efelax | Efelax Efelax or efelahk are a virid species found in various parts of the world. They are commonly thought of as carnivorous plants, having the appearance of leaves and being rooted in place, though in fact they are sessile animals. Efelax are highly poisonous, with the toxins having medicinal uses. |
| Fire ants | Fire ants Fire ants are a colonial species of virid crustacean, native to the hot and dry equatorial regions, particulary in central Ororr and western Otekahré. They are considered a pest due to their habit of swarming over anything considered a threat to the nest or a food source, inflicting a mass of painful bites with their powerful jaws. Though the ants have no venom, crushing the ants by rolling on the ground or trying to brush them off releases a caustic fluid which is a painful irritant … |
| Gnatfish | Gnatfish Gnatfish are small virid fish particularly found in warm tropical waters. They have a bony exoskeleton and are predatory, hunting in packs. They are able to feed on blood, often swarming around larger animals and embedding themselves into the flesh. They are fast swimmers, capable of launching themselves out of the water to escape enemies. |
| Indigenous Natives | Indigenous Natives The indigenous native inhabitants of Helevos, collectively called jinnies, are lemur-like virid creatures indigenous to virid forests and jungles throughout the world. Many are considered intelligent, though they are widely thought of as animals and vermin, and have largely been eradicated from areas of human habitation.viridvirid |
| Lampfish | Lampfish Lampfish are a species of bioluminescent virid fish, found particularly in the Redeeming Ocean, in tropical waters off the east coast of Anásthias. Throughout history they have been captured and used as a source of light. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. Biology |
| Rockfish | Rockfish Rockfish describes a diverse variety of virid fish who absorb rock fragments or gravel into their skin for both camouflage and armour. Since both predatory and herbivorous species use this strategy it is a loose term. It is sometimes misapplied to viridvirid |
| Rocksucker | Rocksucker Rocksuckers are of migratory virid fish found in coasts and rivers around Anásthias, and even in inland waterways as far as the upper reaches of the River Wiyel below the Great Cataract of Deltirot. Rocksuckers have a distinctive oval plate on their lower jaw which, though primarily for feeding, allows them to cling on to and climb nearly vertical surfaces, making them one of few virid |
| Sand lice | Sand lice Sand lice are small virid arthropoids commonly found in aid and dusty areas. Growing up to finger length their strong mandibles can inflict a painful bite, and can be dangerous in large numbers when their nest is threatened. Fauna This is in a series of articles about |
| Screw-worms | Screw-worms Screw-worms are a class of virid marine creatures who in nature attach themselves to detritus on the sea bed and aid its decomposition. Consequently they also attach themselves to wooden piers and the hulls of sailing vessels. They are particularly active in warm, nutrient-rich waters, where they can burrow into an unprotected ship's hull and cause terrible damage within a few weeks. |
| Scythe fish | Scythe fish Scythe fish are predatory virid fish found in deep open waters. Their sharp scythe-like appendages are evolved to slice off the limbs of giant virid squid squid, but they will attack and eat any kind of prey, including any humans unlucky enough to fall overboard from ships. |
| Sea dragon | Sea dragon The sea dragon is a large marine virid creature inhabiting the pelagic zone in deeper waters off the oceanic shelf. They are predatory, living on a diet of fish and carrion. In the Civilised World they are most common in the temperate waters around Munatan, southern virid |
| Sea mushroom | Sea mushroom Sea mushrooms are virid marine creatures with a mushroom-like shape. Most of them are toxic, but are harvested and fermented for human consumption. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. virid fauna food |
| Siphonophores | Siphonophores Siphonophores are a class of virid creatures who appear and function as a single organism, but are in fact a colony of individual organisms who join together and co-operate as part of their life cycle. Fauna This is in a series of articles about |
| Sucorolith | Sucorolith Sucoroliths are marine reefs created by colonies of virid zooid organisms called sucoaros. These zooid colonies create tube-like filter feeding structures, extracting nutrients from water and excreting particles of rock and debris around themselves for protection. Over time these create extensive rocky structures that can extend to just below or even above the waterline.Anásthias |
| Tunnel-worms | Tunnel-worms Tunnel-worms are virid vermiform creatures found in caves and burrows throughout the Civilised World. They were once more common but are now mainly found in remote cave systems in mountains and isolated regions, particularly in the Dun Trisan mountains. Tunnel-worms are dun-coloured omnivores, hunters and scavengers consuming anything from carrion and decaying plant matter to small living prey. They can grow to a prodigious size limited only by the size of the tunnel system they l… |
| Vermiform | Vermiform Vermiforms are a family of worm-shaped virid creatures, including the tunnel-worms, some of which can grow to a very large size. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. virid fauna |
| Vireels | Vireels Vireels are a family of virid acquatic vermiforms. They are usually dark in colour with an eel-like or snake-like limbless body. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. Most are predatory, using their saw-like mouths to burrow into the flesh of prey. They also commonly feed on carrion. Vireels are relatively slow moving compared to most |
| Viricrustaceans | Viricrustaceans Viricrustaceans are virid arthropods with an exoskeleton and multiple limbs. Most species are acquatic, but there are many land based species. virid arthropods fauna |
| Wyvern | Wyvern Wyverns are bipedal virid predators generally found in virid jungles and virid grasslands that provide plenty of cover. At full size they are roughly the size of a large man, with powerful hind legs for running, a long toothed snout, and smaller forelimbs for grabbing prey. Wyverns secrete a venom which is highly toxic to virid |
| Zooid | Zooid Zooids are a class of virid marine organisms which are a base of the virid food chain in the oceans. Zooids are single-celled, with some classes being free-floating throughout their lifecycle, while others live as colony-organisms for some or all of their life. Colony-organisms range from tiny motile and non-motile viridvirid |
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