Tobacco Wood

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Tobacco Wood

This style of wood is not from a particular tree or bush, most certainly not the tobacco plant, but rather, it refers to wood planks taken from tobacco curing buildings. These planks have been infused with the faint scent of drying tobacco, making them a popular interior design choice for many.

Many claim that "true" tobacco wood originates on the Isle of Ornath. According to accounts, their small tobacco crops inexplicably failed one year, and subsequent attempts to maintain tobacco growth were ineffective. Pragmatically, the farmers turned to other crops, but finding the barns heavily infused with the scent of tobacco, they opted to dismantle their tobacco barns and build fresh.

Because they used a type of pale pine that sun-aged rapidly for their tobacco barns, Ornathian tobacco wood is a naturally sun-aged, striated grey hue. In other areas, reclaimed tobacco wood ranges from these similar sun-aged greys to rich browns and reds depending on the original wood and how long the curing building was left standing.

Tobacco wood is used in numerous personal studies, small libraries, and cafes -- those sort of cozy, intimate settings where the faint hints of drying tobacco add a certain essence to the ambience.

The best tobacco wood comes from curing buildings that have stood for a century at least, as that allows the wood to naturally age and imbue itself fully with the essence of its drying crop. However, the process can be artificially accelerated with certain alchemical processes when demand is high, but even these woods require at least two decades of tobacco drying and sun exposure.

OOC Information/Notes

• Created by GM Xynwen, August 2024
• Usage Information:
  • Tobacco wood is open use and does not have to be supplied. It would typically be for interior design and possibly trinkets, because the characteristic scent would fade so rapidly for outdoor use that it would be impossible to distinguish from any other aged and reclaimed wood.