Poison Names

[VariousRen]

For my low fantasy game, I've begun putting together a list of poisons that the players either already had knowledge of, or have encountered and identified. I have done this already for a limited number of potions and other alchemical concotions earlier, but poisons seem much more likely to have entertaining names.

Potions are rare, magical, and made by wizards with decades of training in alchemy. As such, they usually have exceptionally dry names (Extract of Chiron, doesn't exactly roll off the toung when you're screaming for a health potion), and because of the price stay out of the public eye by and large.

Poisons, on the other hand, are made by sketchy back alley chemists who are half mad from their own fumes and given all sorts of colourful names by the folk who use them. Many of the names would be only tangentially related to the effect, to avoid the attention of the police.

With that in mind, I was hoping to turn to the forums for help creating the effects (and especially the entertaining names) for a few poisons to include in game. For anyone who wants to borrow from the list of things I have already created and detailed, there are two pages up on our obsidian portal page.

Potions: https://the-fall-of-brekhan.obsidian...onics-and-oils
and Poisons: https://the-fall-of-brekhan.obsidian.../wikis/poisons