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Commodity illustration: Cloves

Category:Spices and aromatics

Cloves

Standard price
800 pieces of eight for 100 kg
Surplus
700 pieces of eight
Scarcity
1,000 pieces of eight
Bulk
0.2 Tons

Equivalent to 4,000 pieces of eight per ton

Export regions

Cloves are dried flower buds. Each has a rounded head above a short brown stalk, giving it the shape of a small nail. Whole buds are powerfully scented, with still more aroma released by grinding.

Cooks use them to flavour meat, and apothecaries in their preparations. The buds are picked from the clove tree before the flowers open, then dried. The Moluccas are central to the trade: a handful sold in a European market has travelled a long sea route from the trees where it was gathered.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • La Révolte, p. 308.
  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 525, 528, 529, 534, PDF pages 521.

Ludic RPG adaptations used on this page:

  • Goods sold by the 100 kg lot: bulk (house rule).

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.