Diviner’s Sage

Diviner’s Sage is an annual herb species known for its psychotropic properties. Its immature leaves contain contains natural opioid-like compounds that induce hallucinations when its leaves are consumed by chewing, smoking or steeped as a tea. Its effects manifest rapidly after consumption but are short-lived.

The shrub grows in temperate climates, generally growing roughly one foot tall and wide. Its leaves are ovaloid and oblong. It flowers in late spring or early summer, with red, rose, cream, and yellow flower blooms. When the flower is in bloom, its leaves generally lose their hallucinogenic, and the plant generally dies shortly thereafter. During this phase in the plant’s life, its leaves smell savory and peppery and can be consumed like a normal herb, as the psychotropic properties in its immature leaves are completely gone.

The herb got its name from these properties; in years past, priests and priestesses of the Old Gods consumed the herbs and went into trances, where they saw hallucinations they claimed were from their gods.