20 - witch weather

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All witches know the best herbs and ingredients are harvested when the full moon is reflected on the surface of a placid lake on the clear, serene night after a thunderstorm, but realistically, it's only about a 30% increase in potion efficacy (about 50-60% for a poultice, but then you're just being old-fashioned for old-fashioned's sake). Tracking weather cycles, finding an appropriately remote location, and setting up an atelier-domain wide enough to create a micro-climate is quite a lot of trouble for relatively little gain.

LED grow lamps work almost as well.

What Druids Don't Tell You: A Modern Mage's Guide to Herbology (11th Edition),
Hildegard Heinessen (2012)

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