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Category:Spices and aromatics

Saffron

Standard price
850 pieces of eight for 10 kg
Surplus
700 pieces of eight
Scarcity
1,100 pieces of eight
Bulk
0.05 Tons

Equivalent to 17,000 pieces of eight per ton

Export regions

Saffron is made from the red stigmas of crocus flowers. Dried into fine, fragrant threads, it weighs very little and is easily scattered. Closed boxes help protect this delicate cargo.

Cooks use it for colour and flavour, and apothecaries add it to their preparations. Each purple flower yields only a few stigmas, which must be picked by hand. Buyers look for fresh, dry red threads with little yellow material mixed in. A small box can hold the harvest of many flowers and hours of careful work.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • La Révolte, p. 308.
  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 524, 530, 533, PDF pages 521.

Ludic RPG adaptations used on this page:

  • Saffron: bulk (house rule).

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