[Gaia Reborn]

    "Tunnels glitter of gold, the remains of Myrmekes and prey alike strewn about haphazardly in the forgotten caverns.

    The sound of their swarming and buzzing is ever-present, and every attempt to gather is met with the impending sense of doom.

    Do not tread nor gather here lightly, lest you become sustenance for the Myrmekes Queen;

    Tread here with confidence and strength, and you will bring back Gold and Honey to deepen your pockets."

Gathering

Unique Drops

Monster Drops

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Gathering

Level 1

Name: Iron Ore
Rarity: 2
Item type: Ore
Source: Ciminian Forest: Mineral; Tiber Coastline: Mineral; Myrmekes Nest: Mineral
Description: An ore commonly found in orange, brown or blue hues. It is probably the most well-known metal to mankind. It rusts easily, but is tough and rather common. Blacksmiths seeking to craft with it will have to be careful of the many impurities in it.

Name: Minor Fossil
Rarity: 2
Item type: Bone
Source: Ciminian Forest: Mineral; Tiber coastline: Mineral; Myrmekes Nest: Mineral
Description: A small, semi-fossilized piece of random bone. It’s harder than normal bone and can be used for tools or accessories, but is difficult to work with because it shatters easily and isn’t flexible.

Name: Supple Branch
Rarity: 1
Item type: Wood
Source: Ciminian Forest: Wood; Tiber coastline: Wood; Myrmekes Nest: Wood
Description: A soft, supple branch that doesn’t break or snap easily. You can weave baskets with it or other various small crafts, but it’s not very tough when pulled on.

Level 2

Name: Bones
Rarity: 1
Item type: Bone
Source: Ciminian Forest: Animal Produce; Tiber Coastline: Animal Produce; Myrmekes Nest: Animal Produce
Description: Filthy, dirty bones from a long-rotten carcass. They’re light but not particularly sturdy anymore after being sun-bleached for so long, and some people are scared of seeing any kind of bones.

Name: Chitin
Rarity: 3
Item type: Scale
Source: Insects; Myrmekes Nest: Animal Produce
Description: The tough yet lightweight and flexible chitin of an insect, that comes in many shapes, colors and sizes. Most people are grossed out by it, but chitin is a veritable wonder of nature with its sheer resilience to weight ratio. It is, however, hard to work with.

Level 3

Name: Gold Dust
Rarity: 3
Item type: Mineral
Source: Myrmekes Nest: Animal Produce
Description: Faint, dust-sized specks of gold that are found lining the cavern walls of the Myrmekes Nest. It’s commonly used for decoration, glitter or in paint for gold paint. You can smelt it into gold bars, but how many Karats it is depends greatly on the Blacksmith’s skill.

Name: Myrmeke Larva
Rarity: 3
Item type: Meat
Source: Myrmekes Nest: Food
Description: A large dark brown larva the size of an adult’s forearm. It squirms and is absolutely unappetizing to most, but has a flavor actually comparable to a Widgety Grub - one of peanut butter and stirred egg. It’s rich in protein too, so it’d technically make for great food if it weren’t so gross. It can be sliced up however and cooked to at least slightly resemble meat to unaware consumers.

Level 4

Name: Myrmekes Pilum
Rarity: 3
Item level: 5
Equipment type: One-handed, Polearm
From: Myrmekes Soldier, Marshal, Drone; Myrmekes Nest: Animal Produce
Effects: /
Skills: /
Description: A light spear made entirely from chitin, from shaft to spearhead. It has a four-pronged, sharp tip that lodges deep inside. It’s flexible and small, but not very sturdy so makes for a poor spear for Adventurers, but they may be used as tossing weapons in the same sense as javelins.

Name: Myrmeke Honey
Rarity: 3
Type: Animal Produce
From: Myrmekes Healer; Myrmekes Nest: Animal Produce
Description: A delicious honey that is much less deliciously stored in the abdomen of Myrmeke Healers or smeared out over walls. It is richly yellow in color, although some honey is discolored red, pink, purple or blue from copious quantities of fruits or dyes in a specific color. It can be dyed afterwards this way. It restores a small amount of health but most popularly is processed into colorful candy or cookies.

Level 5

Name: Gold Ore
Rarity: 5
Item type: Mineral
Source: Tibert Coastline: Mineral; Mediterranean Sea: Mineral; Myrmekes Nest: Mineral
Description: A large slab of blue-and-gold ore pulled out from the depths of the earth or the sandy, glittering dirt tunnels of the Myrmekes. It’s about the size of a football, and being gold, is highly popular of course.

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Unique Drops

Level 3

Name: Myrmeke Honey
Rarity: 3
Type: Animal Produce
From: Myrmekes Healer; Myrmekes Nest: Animal Produce
Description: A delicious honey that is much less deliciously stored in the abdomen of Myrmeke Healers or smeared out over walls. It is richly yellow in color, although some honey is discolored red, pink, purple or blue from copious quantities of fruits or dyes in a specific color. It can be dyed afterwards this way. It restores a small amount of health but most popularly is processed into colorful candy or cookies.

Name: Marshal’s Helmet
Rarity: 3
Type: Curiosity
From: Myrmekes Marshal
Description: A galea made out of chitin that once covered the head of a Myrmeke Marshal, it has a line of thick bristles running over its top that still contain pheromones. While useless to humans, the chitin can be used for armor and the pheromone-stained bristles can be used as catalyst in potions.

Level 4

Name: Continuous wing
Rarity: 4
Type: Scale
From: Myrmekes Drone
Description: A thin and transparent, large wing that is impossible to tear, but can be pierced much more easily. As such it is not fit to be used in armor’s outer layers, but can be used as inner layers or for construction. It is unsettling for people scared of insects.

Level 5

Name: Bile gland
Rarity: 5
Type: Reagent
From: Myrmekes Queen
Description: A large green, balloon-shaped gland of which the Myrmekes Queen has one in each cheek. It uses these to spit its powerful Caustic Bile. It is useless in potions, but makes for acid that, when handled carefully, can help process or shape tough materials. Do note that bile glands like these are not found in real world ants.

Name: Gold-Crusted chitin
Rarity: 5
Type: Ore
From: Myrmekes Queen
Description: A small trip of chitin unfit for use in equipment due to the gold dust lining it. Instead, it is recommended to filter, sift or extract the grains and chunks of gold lining or buried in the chitin. Sometimes even entire coins are found lodged inside.

Name: Queen’s Eye-Jewel
Rarity: 5
Item level: 20
Equipment type: Accessory
From: Myrmekes Queen
Effects: Any other accessories that give Up buffs spread a very minor version of their effect to party members within 10 meters. For example, a ring that grants a low Attack Up grants everyone else a very minor Attack Up.
Skills: /
Description: A beautiful chunk of Axinite that resembles a faceted eye, albeit far not as gross. This Unique Drop exudes a faint magical aura that makes the wielder more confident and subconsciously gives them traits of a true leader.

Name: Myrmekes Platemail
Rarity: 5
Item level: 15
Equipment type: Accessory
From: Myrmekes Queen
Effects: The user gains a minor reduction in the amount of Nature and Air damage taken.
Skills: /
Description: A sturdy set of bronze-tinted, iron platemail fashioned in true Roman style, it is flawless and perfectly hewn. Adorning its back are two insect wing-like, slightly protruding carvings that add an air of elegance and the chestplate has a scaled pattern. The platemail grants a large unconditional boost to defense. It morphs depending on the gender of the person that wears it, so it’s more masculine and broad on men and more slender and curvy on women.

Name: Pheromone Sphere
Rarity: 5
Item level: 25
Equipment type: Accessory
From: Myrmekes Queen
Effects: Boosts the power of healing spells by a low amount and reduces the Aggro gained from healing by an average amount. Wearers will also heal themselves for 1% of the healing they bring to party members, but not themselves.
Skills: /
Description: Shaped like a small red pomegranate with a quarter of it sliced out to bare the many yellow and green gems inside, the Pheromone Sphere is one of the weirdest accessories. It comes with a thin chain to hang around the neck. Its outer shell is made of a red-colored steel alloy and its insides are made of many transparent and translucent green and yellow gems and crystals.

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Monster Drops

Level 1

Name: Red meat
Rarity: 1
Item type: Meat
Source: Beast
Description: Meat from a beast, this type of meat is the most commonly eaten by Gaians, as the easiest creatures to domesticate tend to be beasts.

Name: White meat
Rarity: 1
Item type: Meat
Source: Aquatic, Fish, Reptile
Description: Meat taken from a fish, bird or reptile. Although less common than red meat, white meat is still very common and easy to find.

Name: Fangs
Rarity: 1
Item type: Bone
Source: Many
Description: Small to large, sharp teeth from beasts such as a wolf, fish like a shark or other carnivorous monsters. They are decently sturdy, but small and difficult to make anything out of.

Name: Prime bone
Rarity: 1
Item type: Bone
Source: Many
Description: A large, still clean bone recently looted from the remains of a slain monster. It can be ground up or used as rudimentary weapons, but most Adventurers and Gaians opt to instead work it into crafts or ritualistic accessories and wearables.

Name: Pelt
Rarity: 1
Item type: Fur
Source: Beast
Description: A thick warm pelt that once kept a beast warm, and now instead is ready to be tanned and worked into clothes or armor. It can see use as a raw fur, or leather.

Name: Scale
Rarity: 1
Item type: Scale
Source: Reptiles, Aquatic
Description: A large scale that wasn’t shed and grew to a large size. It’s flexible and thin and many have wildly varying colors and patterns, and is most commonly used as decoration rather than material for equipment.

Name: Thin fin
Rarity: 1
Item type: Fur
Source: Many
Description: A thin and frilly fin cut from fishes, serpents or other monsters. It’s often boiled down and used for glue or flavoring soups.

Name: Prime feather
Rarity: 1
Item type: Feather
Source: Avian
Description: A few non-crooked, non-slashed feathers plucked from the fresh corpse of a slain Avian monster. They are noticeably more lustrous and sturdy than their shed, smaller and dirtier counterpart.

Name: Rough Hairs
Rarity: 1
Item type: Fur
Source: Many
Description: Rough, bristly hairs or fur that once lined a monster. It tickles if you touch it, and isn’t pleasant to hold, but is used for a variety of crafts.

Name: Slime
Rarity: 1
Item type: Reagent
Source: Amorphous
Description: Any type of usually odorless, transparent slime. It’s properties highly depend on the monster you got it from, but usually it’s used for potions or made into gelatin.

Name: Twitching Branch
Rarity: 1
Item type: Plant
Source: Plants
Description: A fibery, thin branch or root harvested from a slain Plant monster. Unlike normal plants, this branch is used to moving a lot, and makes it kind of like sinew with how tough and stretchy it is.

Level 2

Name: Sinew
Rarity: 2
Item type: Meat
Source: Many
Description: Rubbery, tough thin muscles that are yellow in color and are usually stretched over joints unlike red muscles. It’s often dried and used in bowstrings, or as elastics. It’s not really edible.

Name: Warm blood
Rarity: 2
Item type: Reagent
Source: Many
Description: Red, warm blood from most monsters that has been preserved. It’s obviously a gross work to gather this and keep it, but monster blood is a prime ingredient for potions and poisons of all kinds.

Name: Cold blood
Rarity: 2
Item type: Reagent
Source: Many
Description: Blood taken from cold blooded creature such as reptilians. Although it is not easy to differentiate from Warm blood by looks alone, it reacts differently when used for potions or poisons.

Name: Sap Blood
Rarity: 2
Item type: Reagent
Source: Plants
Description: A sap that once served as “blood” for Plant monsters such as treants or alraunes. It’s much thicker and warmer, but has an unpleasant taste. Its use is much like Warm or Cold Blood - Potions and Poisons.

Name: Tough scale
Rarity: 2
Item type: Scale
Source: Reptile, Aquatic
Description: A much more rigid and thicker scale that has merit for usage in gear, to help protect joints in leather or cloth armor, because it’s rather light.

Name: Stretchy Hide
Rarity: 2
Item type: Fur
Source: Many
Description: An elastic, but thin piece of hide that usually spans rotary joints or other bodily parts in Monsters. It is thin and pierces easily, but elastic and stretches well. It usually has much thinner fur.

Name: Monster Eyeball
Rarity: 2
Item type: Reagent
Source: Many
Description: A gross eyeball plucked out of a monster. Since the apocalypse, handling these sends shivers up the spines of many Pharmacists. They are cut open and the fluids are used for a variety of potions, or boiled in a witches’ brew if you’re an old-fashioned one.

Name: Weak venom
Rarity: 2
Item type: Reagent
Source: Many
Description: A generic type of venom that can come from many sources, and is generally used to prevent prey from resisting by paralysing them. It’s not very potent, and a sizely dose is required in a bite to paralyze a limb from a human, but it hurts. It can be made into poisons that Poison or Paralyze.

Name: Needle
Rarity: 2
Item type: Bone
Source: Many
Description: A soft or hard, small stinger or sucker used primarily by insects to deliver venom or suck sap or blood. There exist other monsters that use these for a variety of reasons.

Name: Necrotic Appendage
Rarity: 2
Item type: Reagent
Source: Undead
Description: A small, cold and gross part of an Undead monster - such as a finger or ear. It’s frequently powdered down and used for a variety of Poisons as a base.

Name: Magic Stone
Rarity: 2
Item type: Stone
Source: Golems
Description: A piece of stone that’s ensorceled, and will float several centimeters in the air. It has less gravity, and will retain this property. It was used to make Golems of old lightweight and able to move despite their material.

Level 3

Name: Prime red meat
Rarity: 3
Item type: Meat
Source: Beast
Description: High quality red meat. This type of red meat is generally reserved to high society among Gaians as it fetches a nice price at markets due to both its rarity and taste.

Name: Prime white meat
Rarity: 3
Item type: Meat
Source: Aquatic, Fish, Reptile
Description: High quality white meat. Same is its red counterpart, this fetches a fine price at markets and tastes better than regular White meat.

Name: Demihuman Liver
Rarity: 3
Item type: Meat
Source: Demihuman
Description: A fatty, red liver cut from the bowels of a Demihuman. Ever since the Apocalypse, people are in arms about whether this should be labelled as cannibalism and be forbidden. This has led to a ban on this liver, making it a black market item that only few are willing to buy.

Name: Ivory
Rarity: 3
Item type: Bone
Source: Many
Description: A large and impressive piece of tusk or horn taken from a variety of monsters. Many LGaians believe that Ivory has healing properties when ground down, and in potions it works as a minor catalyst. It’s more commonly used to adorn all manner of things to make them more valuable.

Name: Giant Claw
Rarity: 3
Item type: Bone
Source: Many
Description: A large claw the size of a dagger that would make prime material for weapons or armor. They are lightweight and slightly flexible, and are generally sharp enough to tear through the tough hides or scales of other Monsters.

Name: Potent venom
Rarity: 3
Item type: Reagent
Source: Many
Description: A generic type of venom that can come from many sources. This potent variety is used by monsters at the top of the food chain that fight other such monsters, and as a result has to work fast and powerfully. It inflicts severe pain and can make powerful Poisoning or Paralyzing poisons.

Name: Discolored Blood
Rarity: 3
Item type: Reagent
Source: Undead
Description: Discolored, greenish purple blood with a sticky, thick consistency. It has an unpleasant scent, viscosity and color. It runs through the veins of Undead monsters, and is used as a base for powerful poisons.

Name: Chitin
Rarity: 3
Item type: Scale
Source: Insects; Myrmekes Nest: Animal Produce
Description: The tough yet lightweight and flexible chitin of an insect, that comes in many shapes, colors and sizes. Most people are grossed out by it, but chitin is a veritable wonder of nature with its sheer resilience to weight ratio. It is, however, hard to work with.

Name: Wing
Rarity: 3
Item type: Fur
Source: Many
Description: A leathery, furry, or feathered wing from a variety of Monsters; such as bats, birds, harpies and other amalgamated horrors. Cutting one off cleanly and usable is difficult. It can be boiled down for resin or glue, used in potions or the thin skin may find use.

Name: Ectoplasm
Rarity: 3
Item type: Reagent
Source: Catacombs of Romalia: Animal Produce; Spirits
Description: A slimy, chilling substance that appears to emit a mist, left behind by ghosts and spirits. The color varies from any shade of blue to purple to green. It is used as a catalyst for potions.

Name: Spare Machinery Parts
Rarity: 3
Item type: Ore
Source: Machine
Description: Bolts, nuts and steel rods of decent quality, and in good enough condition after being beaten up to be reused.

Level 4

Name: Dragon meat
Rarity: 4
Item type: Meat
Source: Dragon
Description: Extremely rare meat carved from dragons. Due to the dragons’ diet, this meat has a very strong taste. It is also quite tough, as one would expect of a dragon.

Name: Golem Core
Rarity: 4
Item type: Arcanum
Source: Golem
Description: A humming, buzzing core that once held mana to animate a golem. Now that it has been killed, it is devoid of energy for the most part, but can still be used to store a high amount of it.

Name: Artificial Blood
Rarity: 4
Item type: Reagent
Source: Artificial Life
Description: Blood that is neither warm nor cold, and has a sticky viscous texture. It once pumped through a monster not from this world, that shouldn’t belong here. This blood has a peculiar property, refusing to bind with many potions or poisons, and it is currently unknown what to use it for.

Name: Fiery Blood
Rarity: 4
Item type: Reagent
Source: Fire Monsters.
Description: Blood from a Fire monster that once lived in or used fire. This blood is extra hot and combustible, releasing a steady flame.

Name: Everice
Rarity: 4
Item type: Stone
Source: Ice Monsters.
Description: A chunk of Ice, once part of a monster, produced or used as body part. It won’t melt in room temperature, and even takes a while to melt right next to a flame.

Name: Bright Seed
Rarity: 4
Item type: Plant
Source: Nature Monsters.
Description: A small little seed, filled with bountiful amounts of Nature mana. You can’t do much with it besides planting it, where it slowly emits this mana to nurture the growth of plants within a small radius.

Name: Turbulent Essence
Rarity: 4
Item type: Curiosity
Source: Air Monsters.
Description: A small wispy shape that rapidly flies in all directions energetically, bottled up or put in a bag. It persists for an entire week, and mimics a gentle breeze, making it useful for a variety of creative uses.

Level 5

Name: Dragon scale
Rarity: 5
Item type: Scale
Source: Dragon
Description: A very tough scale taken from a dragon. It is surprisingly light compared to its size and resilience, and can be used in order to make powerful equipment, assuming the crafter is skilled enough to work it.

Name: Hell Ashes
Rarity: 5
Item type: Reagent
Source: Demon
Description: Rarely, pieces of a slain Demon disintegrate into this fine dark ash that is hot to the touch. When put to fire, it billows black smoke and results in a searing hot fire, making it fantastic to burn or smelt materials with high heat resistance.

Name: Divine Essence
Rarity: 5
Item type: Arcanum
Source: Divine Monsters
Description: An incredibly rare essence left behind by the holiest of Divine Monsters. It is infused in potions and magic equipment not just to amplify their power, but sanctify them and help ward against evil and sickness.