Mushrooms of The Elders Scrolls Part One: Fly Amanita

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  Imagine heading out to your garden, planning on relaxing with some weeding, only to be greeted with the utmost putrid smell. Surely something died and has sat, undiscovered for weeks, as it decayed. Except, instead of a body, you find monstrous, red tentacles reaching out from the mulch, ready to pull you into the depths of hell itself.

   

  As you scan the ground, you spot several more of these beings, a couple still coiled inside the white egg-like sac in which they grow. Others are mid-process of ripping through the membrane, stretching out with their newfound freedom.

   

  On a larger one, a beastly creature with seven tentacles, a fly is devouring some of the Buy shrooms Canada brown sticky substance that lined each outstretched appendage. Surely this is a dastardly trap, but to your surprise, the fly zooms away as you step closer. Its body is covered with gooey gleba from the tentacle on which it had feasted. Spores will release as it zigzags through the air, spreading the hideous mushroom far and wide. Dastardly trap, indeed.

   

  Other than the extreme stench, Clathrus Archeri; commonly called Devil’s Fingers, is actually rather harmless. As far as I know, they aren’t poisonous, but not many people would have the stomach for testing their edibility. The egg sacs have been eaten from time to time, but aren’t described as having much of a taste.

   

  Even though they’re not known to be dangerous, and aren’t likely going to be dragging anyone anywhere, I wouldn’t want one of these growing in my garden, especially since they tend to grow in groups. What do you think? Are these mushrooms intriguing enough to deal with the foul odor?

   

  

  The Elder Scrolls is an expansive video game series with a vast variety of options to explore; one of which is Alchemy. Out of over a hundred ingredients found all throughout the world, thirteen are mushrooms.

   

  The Fly Amanita, or Amanita Muscaria, is one mushroom of The Elder Scrolls that is a real mushroom, so I thought it would be interesting to compare the attributes of the video game version of Fly Amanita to the real-world counterpart. There are different versions of the mushroom found throughout The Elder Scrolls games, so we’re using the Fly Amanita found in Skyrim.

   

  Alright, it’s pretty obvious that eating mushrooms isn’t going to make you fire resistant any time soon. However, it is interesting to note that they were said to have been dried over the hearth during winters, and are thought to be tied into popular holiday myths. Shamans used Fly Amanitas in rituals around the winter solstice in pre-Christian times.

   

  When out collecting mushrooms for use, the Shaman would be dressed in red robes and carrying a special sack. Sound familiar? Santa Claus is daring enough to go down the chimney and into a fireplace, so it’s easy to assume he might have some fire resistance. Even Santa’s red, rosy cheeks relate to the side effects of eating fly agaric mushrooms, which are known to cause the face to flush.

   

  Fortify two-handed
  Hallucinogenic mushrooms that contain psilocybin have been shown, as mentioned in my recent post, to increase the information pathways in the brain. In a sense, this could be considered a property that would boost skills, including those involving both hands.

   

  Unfortunately, Amanita Muscaria contains different compounds, not psilocybin, and the effects are drastically different. In fact, Ibotenic Acid, one of the compounds, is considered a neurotoxin, while Muscimol, the other main component, causes dizziness and Buy shrooms Canada clumsiness amongst other symptoms.

  In summary, it seems the real-world effect and the alchemic property are at complete odds with each other.

   

  Frenzy
  In The Elder Scrolls, frenzy is used to excite creatures and other characters into attacking anyone and everyone around them. With groups of enemies, this is useful, as it causes in-fighting and your adversaries will eliminate each other for you.