So about my self declared botany peak:
Their responsibilities are threefold:
- research: self explanatory
- growing specific plants: so I think its fair to say that cang qiong imports most of their food and lots of basic medical plants, it doesn't make sense for cultivators to farm rice right? Like I can see mu qingfang having a garden for relatively easy to care for medical plants, but nothing to extensive, his is a doctor's peak. So the botany peak grows just in general very expensive plants for some income, rare or difficult medical plants, and maybe some delicacies. And then of course all kinds of funky plants that are interesting to them. You gotta research something. I bet they have a super nice little scent garden to meditate in.
- a small but elite section of the peak is specialized in regenerative and transformative botany.
Regenerative: if a section of land near a village or something has been ravaged by beasts or invasive/ dangerous plants, they devise a strategy to make the terrain save/useable again (if for example a lead-toed hippo destroys a field you gotta plant stuff to loosen up the soil again and absorb the heavy metals, if the field is close to the village preferably without papapa plants)
Transformative: basically terraforming. But with plants.
Sometimes they'll have no choice but to stop the degeneration of places by putting down plants to stabilize the ecosystem and that's it.
But basically their missions outside of research are all about caring for the land.
Since there are heaps upon heaps of papapa plants other peaks call them the orgy peak behind their backs :(