| Category | Resources |
| Type | flora |
| Source | natural - swamps |
The nutrient-rich Shambog plant thrives in temperate to cold swamps, floating atop the surface of waterways, pools, lakes, and even rivers. This buoyant plant consists of vines, leaves, and vibrant flowers that often converge to form expansive colonies, a common occurrence in the Troll Bogs where millions of Shambog plants interlock, obstructing the channels that traverse Belnêth.
Shambog is indigenous to the world Throndar. It was transported to the world Bal-Kriav with the opening of the Radullu Rift. The species has since proliferated across several areas of the realm.
The buoyancy of a myriad shambogs cannot be undervalued. In the Aerie of Dragons, the people of Lum Trumgol Mir and Zomaar Yelvaad construct their homes, towers, walls, and entire cities upon shambog islands. Drenvun is another region where shambog is utilized to support substantial floating settlements. Collectively, masses of this plant serve as foundations for structures and grant limited mobility to less weighty constructions. Shambogs traverse waterways of their own accord, employing their vines to pull the mass upstream or along streams, rivers, and lakes. They do so when an area's nutrients grow scarce or to evade something noxious. Humanoids and unwittingly some animals nourish their shambog colonies with leftover foods, deceased organisms, and other organic matter. As a result, they can sustain exceptionally large colonies nearly indefinitely.
These plants are not life-threatening to the fish, crabs, and other creatures that derive sustenance from the waterways. Shambog is nutrient-rich and airy, and it does not deplete the oxygen from the water like some algal blooms. In the lands of the Zomaar Yelvaad, huts, towers, and even a city float upon shambog. They are never without food, as shambog is edible and palatable. Carnivores find it challenging to consume this plant, but when game is scarce, I have observed dire wolves partaking of it.
Boglin the Sprite, regional report at a Glade Summit - "Quaint Shambog Villages"