Licorice

Licorice was a plant with the edible roots used to create several types of alcoholic drinks.

Availability
Licorice was sold via Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue for 5 sp per root.

In the Shou district of Xiousing in Marsember, licorice, along with numerous other herbs, grew in Shen's Herb Garden in the late 15 century DR.

Food & Drink

 * In the Moonshae Isles, fermented green mold and licorice was used to distill krogynth, a type of licorice-smelling moonshine that tasted like "currants mixed with earwax."
 * Good folk of Sheirtalar distilled black licorice whisky, must disliked by Durnan of Waterdeep.
 * In Tashalar, a drink called rollrum was laced with licorice.
 * Blackfeather Bridge's Blackwater Stout tavern served Blackwater Stout a type of beer with melted licorice.
 * Old Black Goblin was a pitch black porter-type beer made with licorice and cherrywood ash and consumed across the Dalelands, Cormyr, Sembia, and the Moonsea.

Magic

 * A shaving of licorice root was used as a material component for the haste spell.
 * A Halruaan spell of rapid reflexive response required a glove once worn by a halfling, a frog's tongue, and a shaving of licorice.

Notable Users

 * Aoth Fezim carried licorice with him to cast haste on his griffon familiar Brightwing.
 * Halaster Blackcloak kept several casks of licorice root shavings in his components storage room in the Undermountain.
 * Taegan Nightwind, an Avariel bladesinger who sought to stop the Cult of the Dragon's conspiracy circa 1373 DR used licorice root to cast haste spell.

Trivia

 * Following the devastating effects of Spellplague, Vilhon Wilds were turned into a strange and alien lang with its air smelling of jasmine and licorice.
 * Halfling breastmilk was said to have a peculiar taste similar to unsweetened licorice.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
 * Novels
 * Maiden of Pain &bull; The Rage &bull; The Rite &bull; The Ruin &bull; Unclean
 * The Council of Blades &bull; Master of Chains &bull; Ascendancy of the Last &bull; Plague of Spells
 * The Council of Blades &bull; Master of Chains &bull; Ascendancy of the Last &bull; Plague of Spells