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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7923283" data-attributes="member: 177">Um... I know this will be unsatisfactory but... MAGIC?Perhaps less glibly, to go for a no-prize:&nbsp; events in the world have an impact on plants.&nbsp; While you store much of what happens to you in a day in&nbsp; your brain, a plant registers the impacts over its entire self.&nbsp; The rudimentary sentience reads those impacts and translates them (generally accurately, as far as a plant is concerned) into knowledge of the past.Or, if you want to go animistic, there's the tiniest of minor spirits in a plant, a life force, which is what makes it alive - much as a human has a soul, only of far lesser magnitude.&nbsp; The spell grants it enough cognizance and perspective of a non-plant to be able to communicate what the spirit has experienced.Either way... it is magic.&nbsp; You don't actually have to know the answer, unless/until the PCs are going to interact with that answer.&nbsp; If you want magic to be mysterious, don't answer questions about it!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7923283, member: 177"] Um... I know this will be unsatisfactory but... [I]MAGIC[/I]? Perhaps less glibly, to go for a no-prize: events in the world have an impact on plants. While you store much of what happens to you in a day in your brain, a plant registers the impacts over its entire self. The rudimentary sentience reads those impacts and translates them (generally accurately, as far as a plant is concerned) into knowledge of the past. Or, if you want to go animistic, there's the tiniest of minor spirits in a plant, a life force, which is what makes it alive - much as a human has a soul, only of far lesser magnitude. The spell grants it enough cognizance and perspective of a non-plant to be able to communicate what the spirit has experienced. Either way... it is magic. You don't actually have to know the answer, unless/until the PCs are going to interact with that answer. If you want magic to be mysterious, don't answer questions about it! :p [/QUOTE]

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