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Commodity illustration: Mace

Category:Spices and aromatics

Mace

Standard price
1,400 to 1,500 pieces of eight for 100 kg
Surplus
900 to 1,000 pieces of eight
Scarcity
1,500 to 1,600 pieces of eight
Bulk
0.2 Tons

Equivalent to 7,000 to 7,500 pieces of eight per ton

Export regions

Mace is the divided covering around a nutmeg, red when fresh and orange after drying. It looks like a delicate network of strips. Though sometimes called the flower of nutmeg, it is not a flower.

Cooks and apothecaries buy it for its fragrance and flavour. Opening the nutmeg fruit yields two separate spices: the nut and this covering, which is carefully removed and dried. Whole mace keeps its distinctive shape until it is broken or ground for use.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 525, 534.

Ludic RPG adaptations used on this page:

  • Goods sold by the 100 kg lot: bulk (house rule).
  • Matched trade units: trade quantity, trade unit, mass (house rule).

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