Flower harvesters#

Flower harvesters are a cast of specialized biologists trained to art of survival in the brambles. Most of the time, they are hired by privileged individuals looking for new flower houses. When they find a potential flower house, they note its location by going at the top of the brambles and looking at the stars. Then they rate the flower chance of survival and if it can't survive or grow big enough to form a new house, they harvest it or leave it alone.

The harvesters are easily identified by their full black clothing used to camouflage, their strange mask for those wearing them, or their darkened skin color. Harvesters are also a rarity. They require several years of education before being able to explore the brambles and a lot of them die in their first years. Despite what most people think, they are not a cult and don't worship any specific god. They also don't obey any flower government, as there's no governing entity in the brambles.

The rate of flower discovery has been increasing as harvesters became more efficient in their survival craft. But the rate of new habitable flowers remain low. The last discovered habitable flower house happened 317 units ago.

Equipment#

Flower harvesters all share the basic same equipment:

• Shears, saws and blades to cut brambles
• Fully reenforced black clothes to avoid injury and being detected
• Localisation and mapping tools, compass, paper maps and sextans
• Hunting tools: bow and arrows, traps
• A portable greenhouse where they re-pot small flower they harvested (to be resold later)
• Suspended tents and hamacs as well as all the equipment needed to establish camp

Lifestyle#

Flower harvesters live a solitary and autonomous life. They hunt the rare walking animals and gather the rare edible herbs available on the ground, a rarity as most people are living in the upper branches, hunting birds and harvesting white berries. The lack of sun and the food they consume gives them a black and dark purple tinted skin.

Flower harvesters organize their journey according to the brambles' caprices. They can walk for days or sleep in their suspended tents for weeks. When the later happens they often map the areas they went through or do technical drawing of plants and animals.