Jellyberry
A berry that tends to grow either purple or red with a bubbled drupelet look to its skin akin to blackberries, but can grow to the size of a large strawberry. Its native to Kalfoan, where it grows on a thorny bush or bramble. As a type of magicrop, it has magical properties, namely charging and energizing bodies. The tingling flavor and magic surge is intended to be like a spice element to make the consumer fear it, yet it backfired into making it vastly desirable as a magic amplifier. However, it has a much more averse condition for those eating more, where it tends to quickly change and plump-up their body condition with an extreme effect more commonly seen with daring animals. If taken too far, it can end with them becoming a literal blob creature seeping chaotic magic. Its not certain if the 'jelly' name derived from this gelatinous creature, or simply a playful jab at the fat 'jelly bellies' of its frequent eaters.
Its thought to be from the difficult ingestion of the seeds, rubbing off a strange toxin that is literally softening a person with an influx of adipose tissue. Eventually once the body is soft and malleable enough, excess toxin and magic will collapse the creature into a blob that surviving berries can seep out of. Tolerance to the toxin tends to vary by size, with saavi requiring a lot more indulgence than mice to see the fatalistic potential.
However its not just something the seed can be removed from, the toxin is still imbedded in the fruit regardless of its process. The fruit can be burned/processed into a baking process, and its toxins would have still seeped out into the final material, just in a potentially mild form depending on the method. For example, eating the berry baked into bread and ironically even donuts is less fattening by the quantity left, but still at great risk of accumulating if the intake continues. Meanwhile, smoothies use up a higher concentration of berries for their volume with no baking, producing a very strong mana & fattening output from a quick and dense intake of many berries in liquid form.
Its thought to be from the difficult ingestion of the seeds, rubbing off a strange toxin that is literally softening a person with an influx of adipose tissue. Eventually once the body is soft and malleable enough, excess toxin and magic will collapse the creature into a blob that surviving berries can seep out of. Tolerance to the toxin tends to vary by size, with saavi requiring a lot more indulgence than mice to see the fatalistic potential.
However its not just something the seed can be removed from, the toxin is still imbedded in the fruit regardless of its process. The fruit can be burned/processed into a baking process, and its toxins would have still seeped out into the final material, just in a potentially mild form depending on the method. For example, eating the berry baked into bread and ironically even donuts is less fattening by the quantity left, but still at great risk of accumulating if the intake continues. Meanwhile, smoothies use up a higher concentration of berries for their volume with no baking, producing a very strong mana & fattening output from a quick and dense intake of many berries in liquid form.
Casual Application
- Muffins/cookies
- Paint dye*
- Donuts
- Smoothies/Juice (Extra potent)
- Bread/cake/pastry
- Mana oil*
- Jam
- Sweetened Pork Paste (sandwich spread)
- Cheap paralysis tonic (mixed with gocob bean)
- Aromatic Powders*
Significance
Saavi are the most known for its use & integral history... 
A very significant crop the saavi race, but in good and bad ways. While initially banned, it is herald as a saving crop that helped them power up against alien threats. From then on mages studied it potential, and slowly let it grow out across the wilds. Now in modern day, its granted a lot of powers, energy, and quirky magic hijynx among the populace. It helped make them feel at ease, get energized, and even help with their hunts and production, as well as made them an interest to foreign traders. However, its also brought its own share of problems. The most obvious at its surface is that one of the slimmest and taller feline races of the known omniverse, was suddenly quite fatter. Whenever the berry grew well, months later the average citizen was chunky, until it ruled the general markets and became accepted as the norm for the general species with some cubs even seeing it as a mark of maturity. Secondarily, some are more keenly aware and negative about the berry or alien activity, and wish to bring about a world order like their former with bans and more fierce xeno regulations, forming divisions and conflict across the saavi. Finally, with the weight gain comes the worst offense, as some of the most gluttonous berry bellies become feral sludge monsters. These strange abominations are more frequently disturbing communities and haunting the country sides at a rate unseen in Kalfoan history.
A very significant crop the saavi race, but in good and bad ways. While initially banned, it is herald as a saving crop that helped them power up against alien threats. From then on mages studied it potential, and slowly let it grow out across the wilds. Now in modern day, its granted a lot of powers, energy, and quirky magic hijynx among the populace. It helped make them feel at ease, get energized, and even help with their hunts and production, as well as made them an interest to foreign traders. However, its also brought its own share of problems. The most obvious at its surface is that one of the slimmest and taller feline races of the known omniverse, was suddenly quite fatter. Whenever the berry grew well, months later the average citizen was chunky, until it ruled the general markets and became accepted as the norm for the general species with some cubs even seeing it as a mark of maturity. Secondarily, some are more keenly aware and negative about the berry or alien activity, and wish to bring about a world order like their former with bans and more fierce xeno regulations, forming divisions and conflict across the saavi. Finally, with the weight gain comes the worst offense, as some of the most gluttonous berry bellies become feral sludge monsters. These strange abominations are more frequently disturbing communities and haunting the country sides at a rate unseen in Kalfoan history.
Item type
Consumable, Food / Drink
Current Location
Related Technologies
Rarity
Rare in the older periods of domestic society. Very common in The Enlightenment period.
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