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Commodity illustration: Pepper

Category:Spices and aromatics

Pepper

Standard price
1,700 pieces of eight per Ton
Surplus
1,200 pieces of eight
Scarcity
1,900 pieces of eight

Export regions

Peppercorns are the fruits of a climbing vine. Black pepper dries with its outer skin, giving it a wrinkled surface; white pepper has that covering removed. Whole grains retain their aroma until crushed.

Cooks, spice merchants and apothecaries all buy pepper. It can travel in sacks, as it did aboard the Mauritius, wrecked in 1609 with other Asian cargo. Harvesting and preparation turn clusters of fruit into the dry grains that arrive at a merchant's counter after months at sea.

Sources and adaptations

Pavillon Noir official references:

  • La Révolte, p. 308.
  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 526, 528, 529, 531, 532, 533, 534, PDF pages 521.

Ludic RPG adaptations:

  • Commodity description.
  • Illustration (AI-assisted).

An independent, unofficial fan-made resource, created by Ludic RPG and adapted from the role-playing game Pavillon Noir.