Appearance
A Vissealist can be of any sex or species but most, and there are but few, are of human form. They have no common uniform, clothing or adornments that indicate their belonging to the society. Their selection of weaponry being the only exception. They only ever wield Serivemn swords.
Just like other artists, they bask in variety. 
Vissealists tend to be a little eccentric, hermit like and strong willed. They perceive things on a sensory level and are not often fooled by trickery. While they remain, mostly within themselves, they have been known to be out spoken, if pressed. They lack social skills and are viewed as, always being preoccupied and not attentive to others , yet their ability to see detail is phenomenal. They are perfectionists and have an affinity with nature which, they believe, is the purist anything can be.

History/Background
Among scholars it is thought that Vissealists have some sort of "connection" with the Ynemn people. Common folk simply think they are some, strange denomination of wizard or sorcerer. Their adeptness to control and produce such wonders with the plains of vissewort are looked upon by the laymen as "wizardry", yet their knowledge of biological and plant chemistry is practical and scientific.
They are secretive of their vissewort skills and knowledge. There is no apprenticeship or mentoring of the young, there is no "becoming a Vissealist". They simply appear or turn up.They do not seem to age, all tho this cannot be verified conclusively because they never remain in one place past 20 years. They appear, tend to their vissewort for a decade or so and then disappear.

Skills and points of interest
Tenders to the vissewort
Of course their primary, self appointed, function is to care for the vissewort plant. The life is simple in its basic form. Diligently and meticulously caring for the vissewort. Making ready the next great display fest, or ensuring the signal path from the plants boundaries is intact so, it can be used in its guardian like duties.
Their understanding of the vissewort is omniscient and unequalled thus providing a subsidiary knowledge of ordinary herbs, biology and chemistry. They prepare potions from the plant, poisons, glues and dyes, much like an alchemist. But by far their most exalted skill,like a painter explores a canvas or a musical ensemble responds to a conductor, is the manipulation of colours in a field of vissewort.
A truly great Vissealist can use his vissewort to distinguish ogre from orc, elf from human, tiger from lion, simply by their chemical secretions as left on the vissewort. If the secretion is fresh enough, they can even sense the emotional state the animal was in when it passed.
Vissealists are not considered mind readers but their ability to sense others emotions and thus their intentions, produces similar results. Contact, provides a more accurate evaluation but often a smell or sniff is enough for them to sense strong emotions, like fear.
Combat
Vissealists have their own form of martial art, cultivated from nature. Their extra sensory abilities allow them to anticipate their opponents actions. Their own manoeuvre’s, mostly defensive, deflections and sidesteps, a kind of dance, a tree swaying in the breeze, somewhat hypnotic. Everything, done with finesse and savoir-faire. Even their command over the Serivemn sword, is graceful, bordering on magical.

Special Equipment
Weapons
Vissealists use only one type of weapon, a pair of wooden like swords called a Serivemn.

Interface
Vissealists communicate not so much verbally but by touch, smell and taste. Their hands are their most used piece of equipment. Electro-chemical signals passed via the skin allow them to communicate with the vissewort tendrils, the interface to the vissewort nodes. These signals are translated from and into emotional patterns. Information can be retrieved from and sent to similar tendrils located on the plants outer extremities. 
Communication with say humans tends to be verbal and short, as most human like species are incapable of interpreting the electro-chemical signals transmitted by the Vissealist.
Shaking the hand of a Vissealists, for example, (un-gloved of course) would impart to him, enormous amounts information on your emotional and mental state but would render nothing to you in return.
Because of this ability to sense chemicals and the secretions many animals and such leave behind, they could make good trackers or forensic like scientists, if only they could be coaxed away from their relatively harmonious and outwardly appearing, simple life.  

Roleplaying Notes
Vissealists are part alchemist, part naturalist part artist.
Quiet folk. Not much on wasted talk. A true artist bordering on genius. Keeps to self, does not interact with others much. Due to their ability to "speak with emotions" they see through people very easily, picking up on emotional and mental states rather than body language or verbal communications.

Vissealvia Saprsi, Vissealvia Splenden Saprsi,Vissealvia Vinea vissewort
Also known as Guard Moss, Guard Grass, Vokte Tre, Vokte Jorde,  Monstro Agre.

Introduction
Vissewort is an early warning device with a difference.

Imagine a blade of grass that detects the hue of those around it. It will always try to become one shade lighter than the darkest it can detect. Eventually, it or others further away, become the saturated level that the species can accomplish, the lightest it can possibly be and this is known as the steady or common state.
   If one blade were to turn dark then all those around it would follow suit but of course, taking on the one shade lighter, response.
   Lets say for example our dominant colour is black (not that visse are commonly found as a black and white species, generally being green but for explanation let me continue), our steady or common state would be the opposite, that is, the lightest of the dominant, which in this case is, black. Our field of ‘visse blades’ would thus be white. We then crush a blade in the centre of the field and it turns its dominant colour, black. Those around, like a pond ripple, react and take on one shade lighter. We would be left with a dark splot in the white field that was black at its centre but slowly faded to shades of greys then eventually white again the further out it was from the crushed or black blade.
   This is vissewort Vissealvia Saprsi in it most basic form. A hardy plant that grows in various ways, with various hues. It is often planted and used as a silent guard or detector. Some very old plants of this species have been found. They grow in a prolific manner and can be found as large as several farm blocks.
   The Vissealvia Splenden Saprsi however is a far more colourful sub species.

Habitat
Numerous species of Visse exist and have been found in both warm and cold climates, They grow pretty much anywhere, open fields where they proliferate like a covering carpet grass, river banks as a more reed like species and even in caverns as a stubby moss. Cavern species often exhibit bioluminescence qualities.

Description
The common Visse plant is a grass like moss. Underground it consists of a number of interconnecting bulbs or rhizome nodes. Each node or bulb sprouts a number of single stems above ground, that terminate in a small bud. The stems and bud vary in colour but are generally a shade, of that particular species dominant hue.
Stems vary in height, from small moss like strands to the bull rush size reeds, seen along some river banks. It has been known to grow in great fields but has also been found in small clumps. The smaller clumped species are generally considered to have a wider and more vibrant colour diversity.

One or Many
It is undecided among the vissealists and alchemists of today as to whether a field of Visse   is a colony of individual plants that share resources or a single organism that has many, genetically identical offshoots. Similar traits can be recognised among the colonies of Pando trees (Aspen) or Sequioa. But certainly none other, so far studied, plant organisms show the communication like activities, that Visse display.

Communication
The basis of vine communication is believed to be electro-chemical. It can feel vibrations and sense minute chemical changes. It is thought that Vissealists use the electro-chemical changes in their bodies brought on by emotions, and a series of vibrations to control or send information into the vines.
The primary users of vissewort, Vissealists keep to themselves and are not forth coming with information on their trade. What information there is on the communicative properties of the vine can be found under Vissealists.

Bud
The Visse plant does not have a flower but does support a small bud at the very tip of its single stem. Many think the bud is the sexual organ of the plant. In spawning season minute droplets form on the very tip of the bud. The swaying breeze moves the stems in waves and these droplets are knocked from one stem to another or blown free and carried on the wind until they come in contact with another. The great alchemist Zifril is often seen wearing his visse coat. Its dark colour was made by walking thru a field of Visse at spawning time. The bud droplets adhering and soaking into the leather dieing it permanently.

Stem
The stem is where all the visible action happens within a Visse plant.
The upper stems of the Visse plant are vascular, tubulous like celery. The stem consists of a bundle of minor and major tubes, xylem and phloem supported and interconnected by a pith. These vascular tubes transport water and plant food. The pith is a storage area for the water and starch the plant needs to grow and provides, along with the bundle, structural support. At this point the plant differs from most others in that it has a further series of tubes that surround the bundle. These tubes, chromalem are close to the outer cortex of the stem and can be visibly seen thru the opaque skin, epedermis. The inner pith is mostly a dark dye of the dominant colour, it is surrounded by the thicker vascular bundle and is not therefore visible. It is thought that this is in fact the reproductive system of the plant. This inner or gametes pith contain male sperm in one plant and female eggs in another.

Bulb
The stems travel the length of the vertical section of the plant ending at the bottom (underground) in a bulb. Bulbs are interconnected with other plants bulbs, via fleshy root stems (rhizomes) forming a living network. Inside the bulb, these ganglia, are clusters of semi intelligent cells. They can process basic ‘commands’ as it were. Clusters of cells form around sacs chromasacs of coloured dye. The sacs form at the bottom of the chromalem tubes. It is not known exactly how these commands are transported from one bulb to another or indeed how the commands are processed but the end result is that the sacs are compressed or relaxed and thus pump dye up and down the stems. The amount or volume of dye in the stem, thus determines the shade.
The bulb also receives information from the photosensitive spots on its stems and can locally use this to stimulate the chromasacs.

Epidermis
The Visse stems skin, is also unique to the plant world. It contains many iridophores that are controlled via the proteins flowing in the phloem. Iridophores are a reflective type cell that can be used to completely reflect surrounding light, giving off metallic, golds, silvers,  greens and blues for example. Their refelctivness can vary dramatically, from complete, thus hiding the chromalem colours, to transparent, allowing the chromalem colour to show clearly through. The skin also retains photosensitive spots or fargeplasts that can detect the brightness of surrounding stems.

Trigger
When the stem is crushed, the water, starch and dye within the gametes pith mix and overcome the various chromalem and iridophore colouring, producing a very dark mush. Without any other external stimulus the surrounding plants default to the Chameleon Response.

Chameleon Response
Basic
Fargeplasts spots, along the outer skin, activate on the darkest pigment or shade of visse that surround it. A signal (system unknown) is released that excites the chromasacs into action. It attempts to find a shade just slightly lighter than the one detected.
Splenden
Numerous hues, shades, florescence and reflectivity are found in these exotic species. It also claims the most ‘intelligence’. That is, the Visse’s ability to interpret and send signals along its rhizome network, such that chromasacs and iridophores of a specific remote plant can be excited. Great fields that extend as far as the eye can see can change colour and shade in little under 200 counts. That is of course if such vast plants were cultivated.
   Expert visse keepers known as vissealists, can create magnificent patterns of a very intricate and colourful nature. These fields come at a price tho for the species is delicate and requires a mastery of visse knowledge and learning to tend and nurture the expansive plant properly. A single cut through a rhizome for example can segregate that plant from others, breaking the ‘line of communication’.

Other uses
While its beyond the scope of this article to go into the depths of the visse as a commodity we will mention some aspects that may be important.
Medical
Not much study has been done on the chemical or herbal aspects of the plant. Stories of its use as a poison and as a herbal medicine are equally heard. One must remain careful as alchemists suspect it depends on the species, the part of the plant and how its prepared.
Dye
Its use as a dye to colour anything from clothing material, to wood and even metals is known. Once again tho it requires careful culling of the bulbs and intricate extraction methods to remove the dye and create a suitable solution.

Story example 
His mouth dry, Ledoik stood at the battlements peering into the moonless gloom and fields surrounding the castle. A misty rain collected upon his head , ran down his cheek formed into a droplet to be captured by his ravenous and desperate tongue. Out there, somewhere,  the Pressagroths waited to attack. But where? So many places, so many weaknesses in these old castle walls and so few men to patrol and defend. Ledoik was anxious, indeed he should be, the Pressagroths were no enemy to be taken lightly. Any minute now the hoard would rampage towards these walls, how far was it? A hundred strides from the forest edge to the walls? Only a lush field of green lay between the bricks he now stood on and the thick vegetation of forest.  Ledoik let his gaze wander towards his commander. Even tho the weight of battle and certain death must bear upon his shoulders the man seemed at ease and did not focus on the forest edge but the fields themselves. The commander noticed Ledoik’s gaze and yet did not rebuke him for drifting from his post but smiled and said ‘fear not young Ledoik, the visse will show us from where and when the Pressagroths attack’ .
   At that moment the drizzle eased, and Ledoik could see as plain as day a blight upon the fields, near the edge of the forest. Like a rock dropped into a pond, a wave of lighter shades of green emanated from the blights centre. Growing from the forest, where it was darkest, the field got lighter and lighter the further away it was from the blight. It was clear enough. The commander barked words, organising the archers, the few catapults they had and the giant rockslings to this side of the battlements. He motioned them to aim towards the blight, the dark patch near the fields edge. Then Ledoik’s face drained, he saw them. A dark mass was moving from the forest. It was hard to be sure but there was something upon the blight. And the waves of lighter shades of green pulsated along the fields like ripples in a pond. The lighter shades, the ones closest to the walls were now getting increasingly darker. That blight was clearly indicating from whence the hoard was coming.
The commander yelled an order and the projectiles whistled their way towards the blight.

The Yinnal canopy is a self-sufficient rainforest, populated mainly by Yinnal trees.

History:
The proposed, scientific origin of the Yinnal canopy is, via meteorite seeding. A small, heavily forested planet broke up or scattered itself into the void. Some of these "life giving" rocks fell onto our soil. Fable has a far more romantic version. Mother Nature adapted this canopy to cope with the immense, environmental problems of the juvenile earth.  The land would normally have rendered to desert, surrendering to the heat and lack of atmospheric rain. In one simple solution, the creative genius of mother nature produced an answer. A forest so thick at its canopy, so tall and interwoven, that the light, heat and ferocious winds, could barely penetrate.
The mythical fable, Saffeena Tabee’a goes even further and tells tales of gods and mother nature arising in earthly form. The fable also hints that the Yinnal canopy was the birth place of mankind.
Communities:
The Yinnal canopy provides, controlled light, insulation and that most important ingredient, water.  Beneath the canopy, life thrives. A close association between the canopy and its people is evident . Most rainforest’s are plagued by an over population of the upper leafy matter, causing dark and dank sub layers. Not so with the a Yinnal forest. The inhabitants (Ynemn) control and maintain the health of the under layers by moving the massive leaves of the Yinnal trees. This adjustment allows fine control on the amount of sunlight and heat that is allowed into and out of the inner space, beneath the canopy.  
The roots of the Yinnal tree, tap into the unfathomable wells of underground water. Transporting it to the canopy of branches and leaves where it is released, just like rain. Like the Ynemn the Yinnal tree also cohabits with the Yinnal Vine vissewort. The vine helps provide structure and in return the tree provides the nutrients, water and support the vine needs to grow. Its the young vine tendrils that are often woven into pathways and hanging structures by the Ynemn folk. 

Habitat:
There are three, pure, Yinnal forests on this planet and each are singular outcrops in the middle of a waste desert. They can be hard to see from a distance. The reflectivity and golden outer appearance made by the leaves, dances visually in the mind, like a heat hazed and induced mirage. Other Yinnal forests have melded with other trees and vegetation. They are older, thicker. It is said "Emn" and time herself have waged war on these previously wasted lands, turning them fertile. Yinnal forests grow somewhat quicker than a normal rainforest. A Yinnal forest can increase its acreage by 25% per year. Rapid growth is noticeable early on in its dominant phase but trails off as it ages.

Life in the canopy:
Life in the canopy is in abundance. Hundreds of species of fauna and flora revolves around the Yinnal tree. The tree has some unique features.

Leaves of gold.
The large golden leaves of the Yinnal tree can grow up to 1 meter in diameter. They are the pinnacle on which the canopy and colony thrives. They protect the tree from the sun and are used to produce the inner rain. As a raw material (see Yinnal tree ) it is used in garments, dwellings and most uniquely, as a form of transportation. see sunglide

Woody thorns
They howl with ear splitting wrath, sharp as daggers with hollow tubes within that can dispense poison like a snakes bite. Used as daggers and whittled down to make excellent arrows.

Niffs
Niffs are an almost microscopic, parasitic, animal. They drift on the subtle air currents that twist and turn within the canopies trunks and branches.

Food Source
The Yinnal fruit…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackfruit

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