April 2024

Watch Your Step on Magni's Isle

Treasured Realm: Craterwood

  Central to the desert continent of Kryzira lies a dozen-mile-wide crater, full of fertile soil and with such a density of trees and wildlife that those within might never realize a hostile desert waits beyond the treeline.
  No one knows how the Craterwood got there, nor has anyone seen the wildlife within it anywhere else. The one thing people do know, however, is that the gargantuan sand-dwelling predators of the desert are unable to enter the Craterwood, kept at bay by something or someone.

Fabled Foliage: Pricklepea

  Attracting a number of scientists and arcanists over the years because of its unique ecosystem, tales say the Craterwood holds as many different fruits as there are grains in the Kryziran desert beyond the trees.
  One of the more popular discoveries to come from the desert forest is the pricklepea: a small and sweet pink berry that grows on spiny shrubs along the outside of the Craterwood, almost serving as a floral symbol of the transition from soil to sand.

The Farmer's Secret

Weapon (Sickle), Very Rare (Requires Attunement)

  This simple, worn tool looks completely typical of something one might find in a farmer’s shed. While attuned, you gain +2 to attack and damage rolls with this sickle.
  Once per day, you may use the sickle to cast Plant Growth or Turn Plants as described below. The sickle can be used once for each ability, and it regains all uses each day at dawn.
  Turn Plants: As an action, you present this weapon and speak a command word to assail plant creatures. Each plant creature within 30 feet of you must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.
  A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can’t take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.
  In addition, any plant creature of CR 2 or below that fails its saving throw against this feature is automatically destroyed.

Stick and Stones

  3rd Level Conjuration

   Casting Time • 1 Action
   Range/Area • 60 feet
   Components • V, S, M
   Duration • Instantaneous

  You conjure dozens of small pieces of natural debris and cause them to barrage up to two target creatures within range that you can see. The creatures must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 8d6 damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If you cast this in forest terrain, the creatures have disadvantage on their saving throws.
  When casting, you may choose to conjure rocks, leaves, or twigs. Depending on what you choose to create, the target creatures are subject to different types of damage:
  • Rocks deal magical bludgeoning damage.
  • Leaves deal magical slashing damage.
  • Twigs deal magical piercing damage.
You may choose different types of debris for each target creature.
  At Higher Levels • When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, increase the damage by 1d6 for each spell slot above 3rd.
  Material • A handful of pricklepeas.

March 2024

Watch Your Step on Magni's Isle

Treasured Realm: Magni's Isle

  Formerly known as Minutia, Magni’s Isle is a small, uncharted civilization of humble people ruled by King Magni the Massive: a colossus of a man with the valiance of a knight and the benevolence of a martyr.
  It was years ago that Magni washed ashore the Minutian coast to the awe of the island’s tiny denizens. After he warded off the blight of gigantic, draconic, flying creatures that had harassed Minutians with their rainbow-feathered assaults for decades, he was crowned their ruler.
  Magni enjoyed the honorific, but more notably, he enjoyed his newfound sense of scale. It was quite the elevation of stature from that of a struggling halfling merchant in a city of giants.

Fabled Foliage: Ironrind

  Minutian farming tools are typically carved from Ironrind: the bark of a mushroom that quickly petrifies if treated correctly. When used by a skilled hand, an Ironrind tool can infuse magical properties into the produce it harvests. Historically, Minutian farmers have used this to make their food more nourishing—making less food last longer, akin to the magic of a Goodberry.
  At King Magni’s request, Minutians have started experimenting with Ironrind cooking tools, diversifying flavors and enchantments on their foodstuffs. The Minutian people have noticed this has also caused their people to grow in size over the past several years, with some now as tall as four and a half inches.

Titan's Shiv

Weapon (Greatsword), Rare (Requires Attunement)

  This grand, ornately-carved greatsword magically fits into a dagger-sized sheath. While attuned, you gain +1 to attack and damage rolls with this greatsword and are able to speak and understand Giant.
  While holding the greatsword and uttering its command word, you can cast Enlarge/Reduce as an action, choosing only yourself as the target. When cast this way, the spell does not require concentration and its duration lasts until you speak the command word again or put the greatsword back in its sheath. The spell ends if you are rendered unconscious or move more than 30 feet from the blade.
  While enlarged this way, this weapon also gains the Reach property.

Inspire/Dishearten

  3rd Level Enchantment

   Casting Time • 1 Reaction
   Range/Area • 30 feet
   Components • V, S
   Duration • Instantaneous

  As a reaction when a creature within range makes an attack roll or ability check, you give the creature either brazen confidence or crippling self-doubt. The target makes a Charisma saving throw that they can choose to fail. On a failed save, roll 2d4. You choose to add or subtract the rolled result to or from their attack roll or ability check. If the creature succeeds on their save, your roll is halved, rounded up. The creature is immune if it can't hear you or if it's immune to being charmed.
  At Higher Levels • When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you may add an additional 1d4 for each spell slot above 3rd.

February 2024

Take Heart in the Emberstark

Treasured Realm: Emberstark

  The Emberstark is the vast, unforgiving tundra that makes up the majority of the inland continent here. Never has an adventurer that traveled it alone been seen again, and larger parties of travelers struggle to journey through the cold barrens at all, packing too much to travel efficiently or too little to last long.
  However, there’s tell of small, ashen, abandoned fire pits scattered throughout the expanse that come alight of their own accord in the presence of adventuring duos. Wanderers that have traveled the Emberstark perpetuate this rumor—of magically comforting hearths that led them through the frozen badlands as beacons of warmth and safety alongside their chosen adventuring partner.

Fabled Foliage: Hearthbloom

  Hearthblooms are small, scarlet-petaled flowers found in the ashes of the strange, magical fire pits throughout the Emberstark. Aromatic of cinnamon and warm to the touch, the petals can be ground into a reagent versatile enough to be added to nearly any potion, giving the drinker a deeply comforting inner warmth (and overpowering the taste of anything else in the concoction).
  Although the true origin of the strange fire pits throughout the tundra is unknown, a commonly held belief is that a magic user left them centuries ago as a guide for future travelers, after they lost someone to the desolate wastes of the Emberstark on their own journey.

Heartbound Charms

Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement)

  These two gold-chained amulets are embedded with small, perfectly-cut diamonds. To attune to the necklaces, you and another creature must attune to them simultaneously. If one wearer becomes unattuned to its necklace, the other wearer also does automatically. While attuned, the two wearers gain the following benefits:

• They have the ability to communicate telepathically with each other within 300 feet.
• If the two attuned wearers are both within 5 feet of the same creature, their weapon attacks each deal an additional 1d4 damage of their weapon's type against the creature.
• If one attuned wearer falls unconscious as a result of taking damage while the other attuned wearer is conscious, they have advantage on death saving throws.
• If one of the attuned wearers dies, the other attuned wearer may use the amulet to cast Revivify, causing the amulet they wear to disintegrate. If this happens, or if one of the amulets is destroyed by other means, the remaining necklace becomes a mundane amulet with 300gp of diamonds.

Temper Flesh

  4th Level Abjuration

   Casting Time • 1 Action
   Range/Area • Touch
   Components • V, S, M
   Duration • Concentration, up to 1 hour

  The caster tempers the flesh of a willing creature to resist harsh environments. For the duration, the creature has resistance to fire and cold damage and ignores difficult terrain penalties pertaining to hot and cold environments.
  At Higher Levels • When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 4th.
  Material • Diamond dust worth 100gp and a hearthbloom petal, which the spell consumes.

January 2024

Wade Into the Ebblands

Treasured Realm: Ebblands

  The moon is at its closest to the world above the Ebblands.
  During the day, the region is a spiderweb of deep rivers and bayous abundant in marine life, but at night, sailors need to be as skilled as their ships’ navigators. As the moon rises each night, these waterways completely drain into the nearby Saudadrian Sea, leaving just streams, creeks, and countless shipwrecks of people who either didn’t expect the quickness of the changing water, or had their hull breached by a submerged tree.
  Even the locals, practiced seafarers by necessity and many of whom live on boats, tend to leave lengthy travel to their most skilled sailors and foolhardy adventurers.

Fabled Foliage: Tideberries

  While it's safer for sailors to avoid the Ebblands altogether, many still risk the treacherous waterways to look for tideberries: red, fist-sized berries that grow along the incessantly changing waterways. Best picked right when they emerge from the ebbing waterlines, their sweetness itself drains into the roots and ground like the receding rivers they grow in, becoming offensively tart prunes if their picking is delayed, and taking the next day’s submergence to return to form.
  As such, selling tideberries is a profitable trade, as most gatherers have learned their best practices only after grounding and crashing several of their own boats and ships. But nobles who favor tideberry, both for its teas and wines and as a status symbol, are often willing to pay large sums to merchants for them.

The Full Moon

Weapon (Battleaxe), Very Rare (Requires Attunement)

  This ivory-colored axe seems to gleam with moonlight during the night, and it turns to muted gray in daylight.
  You gain +2 to attack and damage rolls with this battleaxe, and while holding it in one or both hands, you gain resistance to radiant damage.
  In addition, you can cast Light at will, but only by using this axe as the target of the spell. Once per day, you can use the axe to cast Moonbeam using Charisma as your spellcasting ability. The axe regains this ability at sunset each day.
  At midnight as the moon wanes from gibbous to crescent shape, this axe splits into Wax and Wane.

Wax and Wane

Weapon (Handaxe), Very Rare (Requires Attunement)

  The soot-colored blades of these handaxes seem to almost disappear into darkness during the night, and they turn to muted gray in the day.
 You gain +1 to attack and damage rolls with these handaxes, and while holding at least one axe, you gain Darkvision out to 60 feet.
  Once per day, you can use each axe to cast Darkness, and while holding at least one axe, you can see through the darkness created by the spell with your Darkvision. Each axe regains this ability at sunset each day.
  Two separate individuals can attune to one handaxe at the same time, but if they are ever more than 60 feet apart, the axes lose their magic. At midnight as the moon waxes from crescent to gibbous shape, or the first gibbous or full moon night in which they are less than 60 feet apart, these axes disappear and combine into the Full Moon at a point equidistant between them.

Lunar Pull

  3rd Level Transmutation

   Casting Time • 1 Action
   Range/Area • 120 feet
   Components • V, S, M
   Duration • 1 Round

  Up to three creatures within range must make a Constitution saving throw. If a moon is visible in the sky when casting, the save is made with disadvantage. On a failed save, the creatures are pulled up to 20 feet into the air, taking 4d8 force damage from the sudden movement. On a successful save, creatures take half damage and suffer no additional effects.
  Creatures that failed their save remain suspended until the end of their next turn. If some solid object (such as a ceiling) is encountered while flying upward, creatures strike it as they would in a downward fall. While still suspended, their movement speed is 5, they have disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws, and attacks against them have advantage. At the end of their turn, they fall straight back down.
  At Higher Levels • When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 3rd.
  Material • A pinch of moondust.

December 2023

The Feyweald Beckons

Treasured Realm: Feyweald

  As fables tell it, the Feyweald only allows travelers it deems “interesting” to discover it in all its sylvan, enigmatic beauty. While its flora doesn’t change in seasons as one might expect, the forests’ taste in adventurers does, constantly leading (and misleading) drastically different people and creatures to enter the vibrant woods of the realm to satisfy the curiosity of the trees that take root there.
  Those who claim to have been to the Feyweald and lived to escape it tell such different stories that it’s hard to say what’s true and what’s tavern talk, but one thread does run common in all their tales: getting out of the Feyweald is even harder than getting into it.

Fabled Foliage: Wealdleaf

  Despite the splendor of the Feyweald’s plant life, consuming any of its fruit or vegetation would make for several seconds of impossibly complex and sweet flavor before quickly killing most mortals. But, occasionally hidden beneath the moss on the corners of four-crooked tree roots, one might find a Wealdleaf: a small, two-pointed leaf so modest in its subtle green hue that it’s hardly noticeable.
  An expertly delicate alchemist’s hand could use a single Wealdleaf to concoct a savory elixir so potent it could cure any ailment and extend the life of its drinker. If the alchemist isn’t delicate enough, it can become more toxic than anything else one might find in the Feyweald.

Ring of Fey Roots

Ring, Very Rare (Requires Attunement by a Druid or Ranger)

  This ring appears to be a cluster of miniscule, ever-growing, always-moving tree roots that seem to reach for your flesh when it is held.
  The ring begins with 7 charges and regains 1d6+1 charges daily at dawn. Attuning to the ring allows you to cast the following spells: Entangle (1 charge), Speak with Plants (3 charge), and Tree Stride (5 charges).
  By expending all 7 charges, you can cast Plane Shift, but only to enter the home plane of the Fey. When used this way, the ring buries its roots so far into your flesh that it cannot be removed by any means except the severing of your finger. By expending another 7 charges, you can use the ring again to cast Plane Shift, but only to return to your most recent plane of existence. Once you are in another plane, the ring’s roots recede from your flesh.

Boomshout

  6th Level Evocation

   Casting Time • 1 Action
   Range/Area • Self (60-foot Cone)
   Components • V, S
   Duration • Instantaneous

  You release a sonic boom with your voice, channeled in a direction of your choosing, but audible for a mile in each direction. All creatures in the area of effect must make a Constitution saving throw. Creatures in the area of effect that fail the saving throw take 7d10 thunder damage, are pushed back 10 feet, and are deafened until they take a long rest. On a successful save, they take half as much damage and suffer no other effects. Creatures in the area of effect that are within 15 feet of you that fail their save are also knocked prone and deafened permanently.
  At Higher Levels • When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 6th.

November 2023

Welcome to the Slagsea

Treasured Realm: Slagsea

  The Slagsea was once the outskirts of a bustling metropolis, but war reduced it to rubble long ago. Though it’s a dusty shell of what it once was, it now fosters a new way of life for the people who call it home.
  To some, it’s a barren wasteland. But to bold adventurers and local scrappers, there’s far more than the dust and debris. Jewelry, artifacts, old world electronics, and—the most valuable of it all—still-functioning military-grade tech lie hidden in the ruins, waiting to be re-discovered. For those brave enough to risk encounters with the bandits that frequent the region, adventure and treasure await around every dusty corner.

Fabled Foliage: Oasis

  Hidden throughout the Slagsea are treasures greater than any tech buried beneath the rubble: trees that still bear fruit.The caretakers of these trees have gone to great lengths to prevent raiders from finding these now-holy agrarian havens, and will fight to the death if it means the preservation of their crop.
  Good-natured adventurers lucky enough to find their way into a Slagsea Oasis will be greeted with warmth and kindness entirely alien to the rest of the suburban wastes. Cups here overflow with fresh and tart fruit juice during harvest season. The rest of the year, locals revel with the brewed and distilled spirits made from the fruit, celebrating their simple ways of life in the wastes.

Stringblades

Weapon (Dagger), Very Rare (Requires Attunement)

  Upon closer inspection, the grips on this set of short, simple-looking throwing knives appear to be made of translucent, tightly-wound string.
  Once attuned, you gain +2 to attack and damage rolls made with these weapons, and your melee attacks with them have reach.
  After throwing either of the Stringblades, the arcane string fastened to the grip unravels and disappears completely. If you are within 30 feet of the blade, as part of your attack you may pull on the string to return the dagger to you. Every creature in a straight line between you and the blade’s location must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take slashing damage equal to 1d4+2 plus your Dexterity modifier as it returns to your hand. You may only pull the blades back to you once per turn.

Manifest Vitality

  2nd Level Necromancy

   Casting Time • 1 minute
   Range/Area • Touch
   Components • V, S, M
   Duration • Instantaneous

  You convert your reserve vitality into magical energy to mend the wounds of another creature.As part of the casting of the spell, you may expend up to 3 of your own Hit Dice to instantly heal a target creature. For each Hit Die spent this way, you heal an amount equal to the Hit Dice rolled plus your Constitution modifier. The dice rolled in this way will always match the Hit Dice earned by the class that grants the ability to cast this spell, even if you spend different Hit Dice from another class. This spell has no effect on undead or constructs.
  At Higher Levels • When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you may spend up to 2 more Hit Dice for each slot level above 2nd.
  Material • A drop of your own blood.

Treasured Realm #20: Citadel

Origin: Jinotega, Nicaragua

Producer: La Bastilla Coffee Estates

Altitude: 1300-1500 MASL

Varietal: Caturra, Catuai

Process: Natural

Roast: Light

Tasting Notes: Raisin, Brown Sugar, Cocoa

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Treasured Realm #20: Citadel

Origin: Jinotega, Nicaragua

Producer: La Bastilla Coffee Estates

Altitude: 1300-1500 MASL

Varietal: Caturra, Catuai

Process: Natural

Roast: Light

Tasting Notes: Raisin, Brown Sugar, Cocoa

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Treasured Realm #19: Mormora

Origin: Guji, Ethiopia

Producer: Mormora Farm

Altitude: 1900-2000 MASL

Varietal: Heirloom

Process: Natural

Roast: Light

Tasting Notes: Berries, Guava, Lime, Hazelnut

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Treasured Realm #18: Busambo

Origin: Kayanza, Burundi

Producer: Various Smallholders

Altitude: 1800-2200 MASL

Varietal: Red Bourbon

Process: Natural (Dry)

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Black Tea, Stone Fruit, Vanilla

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Treasured Realm #17: Kenta

Origin: Waghi Valley, Papua New Guinea

Producer: Kenta Plantation Mill

Altitude: 1400-1900 MASL

Varietal: Arusha, Bourbon, Typica

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Graham Cracker, Baking Spice

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Treasured Realm #16: Termico

Origin: Tarrazú, Costa Rica

Producer: Luis Eduardo Campos - Cordillera de Fuego

Altitude: 1600-1750 MASL

Varietal: Caturra

Process: Termico

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: tropical, Winey, Candy

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Treasured Realm #15: Bastille

Origin: Jinotega, Nicaragua

Producer: Finca La Bastilla

Altitude: 1300-1500 MASL

Varietal: H1 Hybrid

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Chocolate, Baking Spice, Lemon/Lime

Print The Helm of Queen Kathryn

Treasured Realm #14: Jaguar

Origin: Tarrazu, Costa Rica

Producer: Beneficio San Diego

Altitude: 1200-1750 MASL

Varietal: Caturra, Catuai

Process: Honey

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Berries, Fruit Leather, Baking Spice

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Treasured Realm #13: Valle

Origin: Central Valley, Costa Rica

Producer: Hacienda Sonora

Altitude: 12-1300 MASL

Varietal: Various

Process: Red Honey

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Chocolate, Toffee, Citrus

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Treasured Realm #12: Umoja

Origin: South Kivu, DR Congo

Producer: Mighty Peace Coffee

Altitude: 1400-2000 MASL

Varietal: Red Bourbon

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Lemongrass, Cream, Raisin

Print Voltag's Caustic Brew

Treasured Realm #11: Mapendo

Origin: South Kivu, DR Congo

Producer: Mighty Peace Coffee

Altitude: 1500-2000 MASL

Varietal: SL-34

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Green Apple, Bright, Chocolate

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Treasured Realm #10: Arisarina

Origin: Sumatra, Indonesia

Producer: Arisarina Cooperative

Altitude: 1200-1400 MASL

Varietal: Tim Tim Catimor

Process: Wet Hulled

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Funk, Earthy, Brothy

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Treasured Realm #9: Gikanda

Origin: Nyeri, Kenya

Producer: Gikanda Farmers Co-operative

Altitude: 1700-1900 MASL

Varietal: SL-28, SL-34, and Ruiru 11

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Bright Fruits, Citrus, Butterscotch

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Treasured Realm #8: Vergel

Origin: Guji, Ethiopia

Producer: El Vergel Estate

Altitude: 2150 MASL

Varietal: Heirloom

Process: Natural

Roast: Light

Tasting Notes: Orange Creamsicle, Lime, Chocolate

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Treasured Realm #9: Caturron

Origin: Huila, Colombia

Producer: El Mirador

Altitude: 1600 MASL

Varietal: Caturron

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Cooked sugars, honey, molasses, nuts

Magic Item: Cloak of Wild Flowers

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Treasured Realm #8: Vergel

Origin: Tolima, Colombia

Producer: El Vergel Estate

Altitude: 1350 MASL

Varietal: Caturra

Process: Anaerobic Natural

Roast: Light

Tasting Notes: Red Sangria, Berries, Tropical Fruit

Magic Item: Umlaut's Spool

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Treasured Realm #7: Creation

Origin: Huila, Colombia

Producer: Freddy Correa, La Primavera Farm

Altitude: 1800 MASL

Varietal: Pink Bourbon

Process: Proprietary Process

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Green Apple, Honey, Berries

Magic Item: Cat's Paw

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Treasured Realm #6: Shakiso

Origin: Guji Zone, Odo Shakiso, Reji Kebele, Ethiopia

Producer: Various Smallholders

Altitude: 1600-2000 MASL

Varietal: Heirloom Varietals

Process: Natural

Roast: Light

Tasting Notes: Juicy, Tropical Fruit

Magic Item: Melatrim's Marvelous Meeples

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Treasured Realm #5: Huehue

Origin: Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Producer: COMAL and UPC, w/ Coffee Kids Program

Altitude: 1300-1800 MASL

Varietal: Caturra, Pache, Bourbon, Catuai, Catimor

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Chocolate, Butter, Fresh Bread

Magic Item: Staff of Vitality

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Treasured Realm #4: Misty Valley

Origin: Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

Producer: Abdullah Bagersh

Altitude: 1750-1950 MASL

Varietal: Heirloom

Process: Natural

Roast: Medium Light

Tasting Notes: Blueberry, Candy, Floral

Magic Item: Thunderball

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Treasured Realm #3: Ruarai

Magic Item: Glacier's BiteOrigin: Nyeri, Kenya

Producer: Ruthaka Farmer's Co-op

Altitude: 1700-1800 MASL

Varietal: SL-34, Ruiru 11, SL-28

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Stone Fruit, Savory Herbs, Juicy

Magic Item: Bottlebolt

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Treasured Realm #2: Mapendo

Origin: South Kivu, DR Congo

Producer: Mighty Peace Coffee

Altitude: 1480-2000 MASL

Varietal: SL-34

Process: Washed

Roast: Medium

Tasting Notes: Lemongrass, Cream, Raisin

Magic Item: Fogger

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