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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dlsharrock" data-source="post: 4277062" data-attributes="member: 55833">[SBLOCK=Spoiler/Binder_Fred]Nice roll <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> He could learn much from the maker's of the staff if he were given time to scrutinize the craftsmanship up close and over time. The staff is beautifully made, clearly a work of art. This is a good roll, so I'll allow a more specific ID. We'll say he's come across wood of this type during his... what? Apprenticeship days? Furthermore, anything you can find online relating to this type of wood, I'll allow Baran to know (common sense on source reliability). There are numerous legends and myths, here are some hooks to get you started: Nimbrethil is an ancient and extremely valuable Elvish wood. The legend as he knows goes thus: in lost Beleriand (the sunken northland of the ancient Elven races) there grew many fair white birch trees which were called Nimbrethil in the tongue of the Grey-Elves. 'Vingilot', the mighty ship that Earendil the Mariner sailed over Belegaer, the Western Sea, to the Undying Lands, was built with timber from these huge ships. As Baran studies the staff he will notice some of the celtic carvings seem related to the sea. Waves and fish etc.Baran has heard of the speaking birds of the mountains, but always assumed this to refer to the Great Eagles who were sometimes seen near the mines of Moria and who were known to be intelligent and capable of speech. Thrushes as friends to Dwarfs is a new one to him, though, of course, he isn't a native to these parts.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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