“ Plant that is likely to produce allergic reactions in almost everybody, even by touch. Usage: medicinal, in very exotic foods, non-lethal traps, disabling opponents (have you ever cut an onion,anyway?), spell components, etc.”
“ Once a year there is Birthday. On this day everyone celebrates their birthday regardless of the day they were born. In practice anyone born in November or December waits till the following Birthday. It is a combination of your birthday and Christmas,
Birthday tree
The magic version of this is empowered by a god to reward their followers once a year. a present will appear Birthday morning. it will be empowered by how well a member of the household provides service or offerings to the god. They vary in power level at GMs discretion.”
“ In the Middle Ages, and even up to the early twentieth century, most of Europe's executioners were related: the Sansons and Deiblers in France, the Pierrepoints in England, etc. The reason for this was that, it generally not being socially acceptable to, well, kill people, executioners and their children could, generally, only marry other executioners or <i>their</i> children.
The parallels with massively inbred, Hapsburg-style dynasties are obvious- imagine a rather clever but politically inept satirist noting this, and being sentenced by the latter to a meeting with the former; even worse, imagine a dynasty of deranged and deformed executioners- think Texas Chaisaw Massacre with government funding.”