[UA] Re: The Gardener

[Michael Sands]

> Taboo: Never let plants go uncared-for. (Lame, I know. Something
> better?)

Some people suggested taboos of the 'don't hurt plants' type. These seem
quite wrong for the gardener as described... in the sense of people who
started agriculture, it would be the opposite. Plants should be tamed and
grown for the use of people. If anything, I'd expect the gardener's taboo to
be letting things stay wild.

The taboo might include a prohibition against cultivating things that have
no use. It's okay to grow food, drugs, pretty flowers but you could not
allow weeds to invade the garden.

The kind of wild-loving, green-man archetype seems more like the enemy of
the gardener (although there might be some argument for it being a
pre-agricultural holder of the archetype - a gatherer of things in the wild
perhaps?)

Channel ideas:
An immunity to vegetable poisons (or perhaps to poisons grown on purpose?).
An ability to increase the bounty of harvests over a large (i.e. medieval
village/farm sized) area



Cheers
Mike Sands



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