Appendix A
Every substance, by need and by price
The book arranged for the middle of a session: two lists, one asking what answers a need and one asking what a coin buys. Each entry’s own chapter still holds its measures, its thresholds and its counts — the lists carry the names and the prices, and nothing here changes anything there.
By need
The book’s answers to the table’s commonest asks, the kitchen’s before the catalog’s, because that is the order the seventh chapter’s ladder climbs them:
| The need | From the kitchen and the cellar | From the catalog | From the spells |
|---|---|---|---|
| To stay awake | Tea (6 cp), coffee (8 cp), chocolate (3 sp) | Drover’s cud (2 sp), kindleseed (5 sp), emberfoot (8 gp), wakerush (12 gp), nightsmith (40 gp) | Keep the Watch |
| To sleep | Chamomile (2 cp) | Bell-bind (3 sp) | — |
| Against pain | Willow tea (4 cp) | Marrowmoss (1 gp), hushcap (6 gp), milk poppy (50 gp), sister’s ease (120 gp) | Lay the Pain By |
| To be cut, set, or stitched | — | Frostnettle (3 cp), setter’s draught (1 gp), eelsalve (2 gp), stonebalm (5 gp), sleepwrack (25 gp) | Lay the Pain By |
| Against fear | — | Steelthread (5 sp), doveheart (1 gp), greymantle (12 gp), queensmilk (30 gp) | — |
| For steady hands | — | Hedgenail (2 sp), linewort (10 gp) | Still the Wanting |
| For a stomach | Ginger sparkle (2 cp), ginger tea (2 cp), bitter sparkle (4 cp), aniseed water (6 cp) | — | — |
| Against cold | Aqua mirabilis (1 gp) | Winterset (8 gp) | — |
| Against heat and labor | Spring sparkle (1 cp), switchel (3 cp) | — | — |
| To see, and to dream | — | Veilcap (5 sp), mothlight (2 gp), dreamvine (8 gp), ditchking (15 gp), loomsight (25 gp), greencrown (40 gp) | Keep the Dreams |
| To empty a stomach | Salt water, or mustard in water | Turnkey (5 cp), blackdraught (1 sp) | Cast It Up |
| To be rid of a worm | — | Wormfern (2 sp), with the purge | — |
| Against a fever | Broth (2 cp), and water cup for cup | Sweatbark (5 sp) | — |
| Against drink | Purl (5 cp), for the morning | Oathbane (12 gp the thirty mornings), for the pledge | — |
| For an overdose | The emetic and the charcoal, as the seventh chapter gives them | Turnkey (5 cp), inside the Onset | Hold the Dose, Draw the Dose |
| For the comedown | Sleep, food and warmth | — | Soften the Fall |
| For the bench | — | — | Steady Fire, Stay the Turning, Hasten the Root |
By price
Everything the book sells, cheapest coin first. Drink is priced by the serving the house pours and a simple by the measure its entry defines, so a row is what one order costs, not what one evening does:
| Price | It buys |
|---|---|
| 1 cp | Small beer, kvass, spring sparkle |
| 2 cp | Birch sparkle, ginger sparkle, broth, ginger tea, chamomile, a vapour charge |
| 3 cp | Mild, cider, country wine, root sparkle, lemon sparkle, berry sparkle, switchel, shandy, frostnettle, blisterwort |
| 4 cp | Table ale, hydromel, perry, bitter sparkle, willow tea, caudle |
| 5 cp | Gruit ale, table wine, purl, spritz, cream sparkle, turnkey |
| 6 cp | Porter, stout, resined wine, aniseed water, sparkle punch, posset, tea |
| 8 cp | Sour ale, mead, claret, black bitters, honey cordial, negus, coffee |
| 1 sp | Braggot, cyser, melomel, pyment, sack, cherry cordial, orange cordial, stonefruit milk, sack posset, syllabub, cordial long, shrub, flip, blackdraught, ten Rushlight rolls |
| 2 sp | Barley wine, metheglin, canary, aqua vitae, marc, rum, bread spirit, coffee cordial, drover’s cud, hedgenail, wormfern, ten Blue Hand rolls |
| 3 sp | Sack mead, malmsey, arrack, brandy, geneva, hippocras, cloister green, chocolate, bell-bind, ten Marsh & Son rolls |
| 4 sp | Fruit spirit, usquebaugh, punch, long spirit, ten Weald Gold rolls |
| 5 sp | Straw wine, wormwood water, kindleseed, veilcap, steelthread, sweatbark, ten Old Tom rolls, a Ferrant’s goldleaf |
| 1 gp | Aqua mirabilis, marrowmoss, doveheart, setter’s draught |
| 2 gp | A cup of fine wine, mothlight, eelsalve, a Cedar House goldleaf |
| 5 gp | Stonebalm, a vapour vessel, an Almadera goldleaf |
| 6 gp | Hushcap |
| 8 gp | Emberfoot, winterset, dreamvine |
| 10 gp | Linewort, a bottle of fine wine |
| 12 gp | Wakerush, greymantle, oathbane’s thirty mornings, a Verrone goldleaf |
| 15 gp | Quickthorn, dulcet root, ditchking |
| 20 gp | Larkwort, mirrorwater, a Montarre goldleaf |
| 25 gp | Sleepwrack, loomsight |
| 30 gp | Queensmilk, a Casa Solveil goldleaf |
| 40 gp | Nightsmith, greencrown |
| 50 gp | Milk poppy |
| 120 gp | Sister’s ease |
Two things carry no price. Thornapple is in every farmyard and no seller’s stock, and the fifth chapter’s imitations are sold at the price of whatever each pretends to be, being worth a few coppers regardless.