Hero Flowers – Heroes of Lemuria and the Black Orchid
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Preservationist_Zach
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Heroes_Don%27t_Grow_on_Trees
https://vulcanstev.blog/2022/06/11/pop-culture-references-of-wizard101-lemuria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Orchid_(character)
Preservationist Zach is an NPC who can stitch two clothing Items or Wands together, as well as unstitch them. Stitching creates a new Item that has the appearance of one particular Item with the stats of another. It costs 100 Crowns to do so.
Zach is surprised to see another human on Lemuria, his wife Louise is the only other human face he’s ever seen. Zach is Lemuria’s leading Preservationist, also the only Preservationist. It is his duty to catalog all life on Lemuria. He’s itching to catalog the new flower species the Lemurs are going on about, but he doesn’t have time to venture into the field. He asks Your Wizard to do a fellow HUman a favor and catalog the Hero Flowers.
Normally, an Eloise (Zach) quest is a either a direct reference to an Earth-born plant or a punny pop culture reference. The Lemuria Quest seems to be a reference to the Heroes of Lemuria; The Bantam, Buck Gordon, Dog Tracy, Duck Savage, The Shadoe, Solomon Crane and Stallion Quartermane that your wizard meets throughout the world.
That said, I DID find one Super-Hero based on a flower (and two villains but the quest is for HERO Flowers).
Black Orchid is a superheroine published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Adventure Comics #428 (cover-dated July 1973).
(cover-dated July 1973)
The character has undergone numerous changes in her biography and powers over the years. Initially, her identity was a mystery, and her primary power was mastery of disguise, often impersonating background female characters. Various speculations about her origins were presented, but ultimately refuted.
In 1988, writer Neil Gaiman introduced an origin story for Black Orchid, giving her the name Susan Linden-Thorne and the background of a human-plant hybrid, connected to other DC Universe plant-human hybrids like Swamp Thing and Poison Ivy. After Linden was murdered by her abusive husband, her DNA was used to create plant-human hybrids, one of which took up her mantle after Linden’s death. The character was relaunched again in 1993 as Flora Black, with the ability to manipulate pheromones and control minds, making her a femme fatale. This series saw Flora’s demise and a younger version, Suzy, taking up the mantle of Black Orchid. In the 2011 reboot of DC’s continuity, The New 52, a new version of the character named Alba Garcia was introduced. Alba is a former army private whose arms were amputated, and she transforms into a purple Swamp Thing-like creature. Her powers involve the ability to shape-shift and manipulate elemental forces.
Throughout all the different versions, the powers of the Black Orchid character have varied but generally include super strength, flight, durability, and the power of disguise or shape-shifting.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Preservationist Zach and Hero Flower images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment. The Crown Empyreal Image is borrowed from Final Bastion.
Black Orchid images are borrowed from Wikipedia. They are copyright DC Comics
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The other Eloise quest references can be found here.
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