Are royal thorns actually recruitable ?

[McSwan]

I restarted 20~30 times hoping that the inn (near the kings brother) that can give a random level 4 monster, would give me royal thorns. It never did.

I suspect royal thorns have been removed from the game in the later patches? Or is there a specific place that they *sometimes spawn*?

[siegefried]

A place I found them in was Verlon Forest, at the hut relatively near the Ghost quest. (Not the one to the right after emerging from the portal from Greenwort)

[Vilk]

I saw (rarely) few of them in green frog castle. I also saw them rarely in pirates islands. Often you find many in Elf islands. But you don't mention the game version you use, mine is retail 1.7.

[McSwan]

Found them in the swamp off bagard. 1.7

[Elwin]

they appear sometimes in frogus bagagabaga castle but in low numbers ...

[Vilk]

They are also in very low numbers in any Darion area or Pirates Islands. I only remember to have seen good stacks in Elf islands and not in all games.