Syberia II is the second adventure game in Benoît Sokal's iconic Steampunk franchise, a direct sequel to the first. Having located the eccentric idealist Hans Voralberg, elderly genius inventor and last living heir of his family's toy factory, Kate Walker is caught up in his fantasy world of childlike innocence and decides to accompany him to the end of the earth, so that he can finally see his utopian dreams come true. At the penultimate stage of their journey, Hans and Kate are stranded in a village of the Far Eastern North and taken in by the local tribe of Youkol, who practice shamanism and use mammoth bones and ivory as their primary buiding material. In the Chief's house and the Spirit Woman's cave where Kate and Hans are respectively tended to, we see quite a few potted plants and herbs, whose role, however, is medicinal rather than decorative. During a trance-like dream sequence, Kate also "visits" the Voralberg manor in Valadilene, where she encounters a majestic houseplant in the living room. (Mar Lox/afterdarkmysweet)
