Garlic

Garlic was a type of spice available commonly in the Realms.

Description
Garlic plants had hollow long dark green spear-shaped leaves. The top of the plant had a round cluster of fine white flowers. The plant was renown for its strong smell, making it easy to identify in the wild, poultices, or foods. The sent became potent when the leaves were crushed. Garlic plants flowered in the mid-to late summer.

Habitats
Garlic was often cultivated in gardens. The plant preferred moist earth and humid locations and in the wild, could be seen growing in meadows or thin forests.

Cost
Garlic was not an expensive spice. In most economies, of garlic sold for only a copper piece. Aurora's Emporium sold a large clove of garlic for 3 coppers and a large bud of garlic for 5 coppers. A quart of pickled garlic sold for 5 silver pieces.

History
Garlic was grown in the Dalelands, among other places.

Circa 1370 DR, Rab Bitnez created the first in Faerûn garlic-bearing vine.

Uses
Garlic was used as a common seasoning. It was sometimes used to flavor crackers. A sliced loaf of dark bread dipped in garlic butter was a simple and cheap food favored by gnomes and humans alike.

101 Garlic Recipes was a garlic-centric cookbook by wizard Rab Bitnez that featured recipes like The Bitnez Pavlova Extraordinaire!, Rab's Riotously Intense Ice Cream, and Garlic Guy Pie.

Medicinally, it was used in various herbal concoctions, such as a snuff used for nasal ailments. Garlic was known for its antiseptic properties and could be used as insect repellant.

Garlic was also a common ingredient that could be found in wizards' laboratories. It was used as a material component in some versions of the slow poison and hold poison spells and the halt undead spell. Vampires, famously, could not tolerate the smell of garlic and would not voluntarily enter an area with a strong odor of it. (This was not true, however, for vampiric dragons! )

Appearances

 * Novels
 * War in Tethyr
 * Video Games
 * Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford &bull; Neverwinter Nights 2 &bull; Sword Coast Legends &bull; Baldur's Gate III
 * Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford &bull; Neverwinter Nights 2 &bull; Sword Coast Legends &bull; Baldur's Gate III