The Planter is the entry onto the path of the Mother, and it is the most peasant-like ninth step in all of mysticism.
The body receives several improvements, the main one being high physical strength;
Farming skill — the bearer handles tools with ease, distinguishes seeds, and knows how to nurture them;
Weather prediction — by clouds, wind, and other signs, he predicts to some degree what the sky will bring.
The step grants neither spells nor combat techniques. Yet for a village such a person means more than any Otherworldly of the war branch: he raises the harvest where otherwise there would be famine.
It is precisely from this that the entire path grows. Further on come healing, the acceleration of plant growth, crossbreeding of species, the creation of artificial life, the burial of the dead into the earth, and, in the end, dominion over life itself and desolation. But everything begins with strong hands and the knowledge of when to sow.
The composition suits the image: the brain of a golden gorilla, the eyeballs of a rain bird, and ninety milliliters of the blood of that same gorilla.
