Green Wood is wood that is freshly cut from a tree and unseasoned.[1] Despite the name, it is usually not literally green.[2]
Uses[]
Green Wood, due to having been recently cut, acts as a conduit for life energy and thus can be used as a means of channeling it. When used as a stake against a Nosferatu or Bane or potentially any other being that has a soul trapped in a different body, it can allow the soul to escape (destroying the creature).[3] Blake speculated that this might allow it to destroy Evan Matthieu.[2]
References[]
- ↑ A single twig has spirits of wood, of the color brown, of life, pine, and nature touching on it and affecting it. - Excerpt from Lost for Words 1.3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eva had a stake in her hand. She was leaning on the railing, and tossed the stake in the air, catching it. One mistake away from dropping it and letting it fall to the floor below.
“Green wood?” I asked.
“Cut earlier tonight.”
[...]
“If you try, little bird,” she said, “I will stake you. Your tricks won’t work.”
Evan was a soul in a different form, just like the Bane was.
I wasn’t entirely sure the method of soul extraction wouldn't work on him too.
“Evan,” I said. “No.” - Excerpt from Duress 12.3 - ↑ One might surmise that the Nosferatu are a natural variation of the Bane, insofar as they are natural. The Nosferatu, if this theory were correct, would incubate spirits of death within them, and depositing them within a victim, inviting them to and from the veil of death. The blight, both pre-existing and given, would be one of the blood.
As such, consider the same methods that function on the Nosferatu. A length of green wood will serve as a conduit for the living energies to vacate the dead prison that confine them. Natural energies, too, will suffice, with daylight, running water ... serving to provide this conduit of natural forces. - "Morte Vilify: Perversions of Death", quoted in Duress 12.3