Bluecap fungus was the main staple grain of the Underdark, where they absorbed magics of faerzress,[1] while a more mundane species of bluecaps was grown in the High Moor of the Western Heartlands.[3]
Description[]
Bluecaps were tall (up to 6 inches), slender white mushrooms with pale blue caps.[4] These fungi were bland and tasteless.[5]
Uses[]
Bluecaps found in the Underdark were inedible in their raw state, but the fungi could be ground into a bland flour and baked into nutritious sporebread (also called bluebread[2]). Bluecap was known for its ease of cultivation (it could be grown with or without faerzress), and it was cultivated by nearly all of the Underdark races.[1] A loaf of sporebread was equivalent to one pound (almost a half kilogram) of food.[2]
The caps of bluecap mushrooms could be prepared by those with the correct herbalism knowledge to make a stew that would neutralize poison. If eaten raw, High Moor bluecap proved mild amount of nutrients. Because of that, omnivorous creature of the High Moor consumed the mushrooms as a dietary supplement.[4]
Location[]
Bluecap was cultivated nearly everywhere in the Underdark.[1] It was also found on the High Moor, where it was eaten by the creatures that wandered the moor and collected by humans for food.[3]
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Appearances[]
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- Out of the Abyss • Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
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- Baldur's Gate III
External links[]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Bruce R. Cordell, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, Jeff Quick (October 2003). Underdark. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 108. ISBN 0-7869-3053-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Christopher Perkins, Adam Lee, Richard Whitters (September 1, 2015). Out of the Abyss. Edited by Jeremy Crawford. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7869-6581-6.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Tim Beach (October 1995). “The High Moor”. In Julia Martin ed. Elminster's Ecologies Appendix II (TSR, Inc), pp. 16, 24. ISBN 0786901713.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Tim Beach (October 1995). “The High Moor”. In Julia Martin ed. Elminster's Ecologies Appendix II (TSR, Inc), p. 16. ISBN 0786901713.
- ↑ Larian Studios (October 2020). Designed by Swen Vincke, et al. Baldur's Gate III. Larian Studios.