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The Apothecary
Old remedies carried stories long before they carried names.
Larkspur: The Flower Inscribed With a Dying Man's Grief
A hero's grief, a rabbit's faith, a sky spirit's gift, a shield against witches — four unrelated cultures looked at the same blue spire of flowers and told four completely different stories. The toxin underneath all of them never changed.
Death Camas: The Poison That Hides in Plain Sight
No flying ointment, no witch trial, no underworld goddess — just a bulb that looks enough like dinner to have killed travelers, settlers, and sheep by the thousands. Sometimes the scariest poison is the one that doesn't bother announcing itself.