The preferred drug of the Neath, discovered on the Surface but now far more popular below ground. It's made from the flowers of a certain kind of rhododendron called "exile's rose;" it induces a deep sleep filled with lucid dreams of that mystical alternate world called Parabola. If one wakes up before one's mind has returned from Parabola, that will make them honey-mazed - effectively drunk.
Xenophon, an ancient Greek writer, wrote of prisoner's honey (he called it mad honey), but the effects on his Surface soldiers resemble honey-mazing more than honey-dreams.
Gaoler's Honey
Colloquially called red honey, because, well, look at the picture. This is a more sinister breed. It's made from a flower that is a cross between the exile's rose and a flower from Hell. It seems the hybrid has existed since the days of the Fourth City.
This honey is hellish for sure; it has been suggested that... (FATE-LOCKED CONTENT SPOILER) | ||
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...A "contaminated" batch made the Empress's children into monsters. (See The Shuttered Palace and the Empress's Court for more info.) |
Gaoler's honey returns in Sunless Sea, where you can observe all of it's effects and learn about the ones who make it at the Isle of Cats.