Folder Index · 17 items
Economy
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- Trade & Goods Crossing Board
The crossing board is a low, slide-played string instrument associated with Statesboro and the wider River Marches. Played across the knees with a bone, glass, or stone slide, it…
- Trade & Goods Desert Bamboo (Fast-Growth Trees)
In the deep desert, there are stands of fast-growing “bamboo trees” that appear where water briefly agrees to exist. They are not forests. They are episodes: a sudden flare of…
- Trade & Goods Desert Truffle
In polite church and court talk, “the desert truffle” or more ritually, “Sun-Blood” is rare, seasonal, and never discussed at full volume. It is said to grow only when the…
- Trade & Goods Distilled Elf Flower Wine
Distilled elf flower wine is a rare, highly concentrated spirit made from elven flower vintages. Most people treat it as rumor: too expensive, too dangerous, and too specific to…
- Trade & Goods Druidic Endurance Leaf
Druidic endurance leaf is a bitter chew used by hunters, messengers, field laborers, and caravan walkers to push through long effort without collapsing. It is practical,…
- Trade & Goods Fish Farming
In river deltas, monastery ponds, and sheltered coastal pens, fish are raised the way grain is raised: patiently, in rows and fences you can’t see until you’re already…
- Trade & Goods Hideleaf (Plant Leather)
Hideleaf is “peasant leather”: thick green leaves cured until they’re tough enough for boots, aprons, and work coats. New hideleaf smells like limewater and bark tea, and it…
- Trade & Goods Insect Spice (Borrowed Heat)
“Spice” in many markets isn’t a far-off flower or a noble’s imported powder—it’s insect heat: dried, crushed compounds taken from things that sting, bite, or burn predators for a…
- Trade & Goods Marsh-Dyed Textiles
Marsh-dyed textiles are one of the best-known exports of The River Marches: supple river-silk and reed-cloth worked into garments and bolts whose muted colors shift like wet…
- Trade & Goods Pitcher Sap
Pitcher sap is a jungle-harvested intoxicant resin traded in tiny vials and leaf wraps. It is prized for confidence and feared for the same reason.
- Trade & Goods Pottery, Kilns, and Trade Seals
In the Empire, clay is bureaucracy you can hold. Goods travel in stamped jars, not just because barrels are expensive, but because a seal makes a thing “real” to the law. If it…
- Trade & Goods Salt Pork (Jar Trade)
Salt pork travels in sealed clay jars: a food, a trade good, and—quietly—a unit of account. People don’t just buy “pork”; they buy “two jars of winter cut,” and the seal on the…
- Trade & Goods Saurakh
Saurakh are the caravans’ quiet miracle: huge herbivorous reptiles built for heat, distance, and long days under a harness. A good saurakh team can haul a life’s worth of goods…
- Trade & Goods Sea Trade Routes
The sea is not a road. With three moons tugging at the world, tides argue with each other, currents migrate, and whole stretches of water become treacherous without warning.…
- Trade & Goods Snake-Blood Wine
Snake-blood wine is a Marcher frontier custom: strong wine or grain spirit dosed with fresh snake blood, sometimes as dare, sometimes as medicine, sometimes as ritual bravado. The…
- Trade & Goods Yage
Yage is a controlled intoxicant made from dried, powdered black centipedes and stabilizing binders. In small doses it loosens thought patterns; in heavy doses it can scramble…
- Trade & Goods Yellow Grass
Yellow grass is the staple that keeps bellies full and borders worth fighting over. It bakes into pale bread, ferments into common beer, and hardens into travel rations that don’t…