In a glacier carved valley, the
goodberry and
catnip prosper, bringing color to an otherwise desolate terrain. Throngs of bushes crowd the glacier tip, sucking water and mana from a trickling creek. The mana-imbued runoff drips from
icefluff filled ravines sheltered betwixt the cracked sheets of ice.
You have discovered a new property of
icefluff.
Quest Received
The first creature to consume icefluff will additionally receive the mana imbued relationship from the Maroon Goddess.
More importantly, the
catnip and
goodberry bushes have difficulty retaining the mana. The absorbed mana is forced into the
goodberry flowers, and dispersed with its fruit and pollen... One of the
bushes has only one flowerbud left. The concentration of mana within the bud is abnormal! Within the bud, mana is coalescing into something unknown: an organism forming from high concentrations of mana!
You have discovered a water sprite! The first of her kind...[/size]
Water sprites are living personifications of mana, typically found in mana-dense ponds and groves. They are protective of nature and flee when threatened. Water sprites need mana to survive, and will disperse into raw mana when they run out. A water sprite with high mana accumulation will mature into a Naiad.
Naiad
An ethereal humanoid formed of mana. Larger than a sprite and always female, they love nature and require high densities of mana in order to survive. No Naiad has ever been observed in the wild, thus their existence remains unproven; a mere speculation of what may come to be...
tl;dr - Icefluff is a magic herb, and when it dies releases mana into the water. Goodberry bushes that absorb enough mana will give birth to water sprites, which (with enough mana) mature into Naiads. ((FakerFangirl will spend her three relationship points on birthing water sprites and giving out one icefluff quest reward.))