Roseite
A translucent reddish-pink crystal grown by wetting pink-red spores from the Rose Sea. Used by sailors as a patching material — a sprouter can grow a sheet of it from a splintbox across a hole in the hull and cut it free with a silver knife. STD:Tress:Ch 9
Known facts
- grows-toward-iron-away-from-silvered-steelGrows directionally in response to the metal it touches: pulled toward an iron plate (so the sprouter's "shield" gathers the crystal), pushed away by polished silvered steel (so the trowel can shape it). Together the two tools let a sprouter grow a patch into the shape of a hole instead of letting it spray in every direction.STD:Tress:Ch 25
- keeps-growing-on-waterDoes not consume its spores in a single burst the way zephyr does — small bits left behind on the wood, given more water, keep expanding slowly like a creeping mould. The trick the textbook does not list: drip more water onto the half-grown patch and you can fill the gaps a single burst could not.STD:Tress:Ch 25
Backreferences
- summarySTD:Tress:Ch 9
- factDorp
- factRose Sea
- factSplintbox
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- factTress
- factRose Spores
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- factWater Cannonball
- factFlare Gun
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- factTress
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- factVerdant Cannonball