Kitter Keep
Bloom
Novice
Manipulate Plant Growth
Manipulate Vegetation
Learning: By attuning their senses with nature, Kitters can use this ability to coax plants to move. This is quite easy to learn, as most vegetation such as flowers and vines are described as friendly and willing to listen. All a Kitter has to do is reach out with their element and, using their thoughts, ask the plant to please move. Beginners usually can only convince a flower to stretch its petals or a vine to swing. Masters of this ability can manipulate vegetation in much more complex ways, such as making flowers walk or using vines as weapons.
Usage: The uses for this ability are endless. Explorers often use this ability for combat or distractions, and gardeners like using it to create elaborate gardens in mere minutes by simply asking the flowers to move so that they don’t have to replant the flowers every time they want to rearrange them.
Limitations: The Kitter must be at thirty feet or less from a plant to be able to manipulate it. Additionally, some plants, such as extremely poisonous ones, can only be controlled through intense concentration. Finally, this ability cannot affect wood.
Identify Plants
Learning: This ability has two ways it can be used and learned: Scientifically or spiritually. Kitters who choose to learn this ability scientifically devote themselves to studying plants through observation. They memorize the differences and similarities between types of plants, slowly learning how to instantly identify a plant and its uses. While this may seem like normal studying, a bloom affinity Kitter’s element allows them to memorize this knowledge at an extraordinary speed. The spiritual method requires a Kitter to learn to connect with the energy that exists in all plants. Through patience and meditation, they eventually learn how to “ask” plants what type they are and what they can be used for.
Usage: While this ability may seem useless at first, it has allowed some explorers to accomplish incredible feats and helped scientists make great discoveries. In the wild, knowing which plant is an edible plant and which is poisonous can be difference between life and death. Many medicines have been invented after a scientist felt their element reveal to them that a type of plant was useful against sickness.
Limitations: Some plants, such as the Prisma flower, have displayed an odd resistance to this ability. Scientifically-attuned Kitters describe this feeling as being similar to when one suddenly encounters an extremely difficult math problem after solving dozens of simple ones. Spiritually-attuned Kitters say the plant simply won’t tell them anything.
Addendum by Hekate the Magic Shopkeeper: Contrary to popular belief, spiritually-attuned Kitters don’t actually talk to their plants like their people. Instead, they mentally ask the plant what type it is and the knowledge just suddenly appears in their mind. I wish studying books was that easy. I’d just think, “How do I use this ability?” and the book would just instantly put the information in my mind. If only it were that easy.
Anyway, some magic experts theorize that the reason some plants are hard to read is because their magic “scrambles” the bloom element’s ability to analyze the plant. For example, the Prisma flower possesses a high amount of magic, so when the bloom element attempts to analyze it, it’s like... what’s a good example? Oh! It’s like a Kitter trying to see in fog. You can still perceive, yet you can’t see. That’s what it’s like when the bloom element tries to analyze a plant that contains magic.
Soothing Scent
Learning: To start off, Kitters need to master their baby power first, so they can learn how to produce the scent. The next step is to project peaceful and calm emotions into that current of scent, enchanting it to take on the properties of the emotion. When it washes over Kitters, they will breathe in the peaceful emotions, and their current state will be affected to match the Bloom Kitter’s.
Usage: While this ability does alter the mind a little, it is often used to moderate debates and arguments. If one side gets too heated, a Bloom-affinity moderator will send a soothing scent their way. This ability can also be used when someone is distressed - for example, if someone is panicking and needs to think rationally.
Limitations: There is only so much this ability can do. Kitters can develop resistance to it, or the scent isn’t strong enough to assuage their emotions. The ability also only affects Kitters within a 10-foot-radius from the user.
Learning: Plants grow at a natural, often times slow rate, which bloom affinity kitters can alter to their will. To learn this ability it is often best to start with a simple sprout of near any species of plant, to hold it out of the ground, cupped by the kitter in a small handful of dirt. Closing the eyes and imagining the roots spreading down, tangling across the limb and the sprout shooting up, growing into a large healthy plant. The roots are easier to manipulate and will grow quickly, but the sprout may meet with resistance, but with daily care will soon grow faster. Masters can make entire fields of crops spring into harvest ready plants in mere minutes.
Usage: This ability is used to speed up or slow down plant growth. There are many ways it could be helpful - for example, if a food shortage is an issue a bloom kitter can simply push a few fruit bearing trees to grow into fruit producing stages. When fire from magic or natural disaster strikes bloom kitters may help rehabilitate land that seemed to be ruined. Small personal vegetable patches may be harvested at a whim-plant growth alterations are infinitely useful.
Limitations: Growth can be slow and limited to a singular plant at first, but kitters may often times use this ability to work on many plants-however this must only be done later in life and practice, otherwise the user may have their magic stunted temporarily. Root damage has also been caused many times by overzealous kitters who tried this ability on trees.
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