Category:Botany

Botany is a branch of natural history that studies plants and fungi. It emerges in Iron Age cultures. It is a child of herbalism which first appears in Stone Age cultures. Botany is taught in universities. The student of botany is a botanist. Botanists will have have ranks in the skills Knowledge (nature) and Professional (herbalist).

The chief practitioners of botany are members of the aristocrat class. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill. Given the necessary resources, members of the expert class are even better suited to becoming botanists. Adepts, bards, druids, rangers and wizards have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is especially likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger.