Snake-Blood Wine

What players would know #

Illustration (player-safe) #

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 Empire calls it barbaric; plenty of imperial fools still try it in private.

Common rumors #

• The real stuff is taken hot, not bottled.
• Half the Marches call it heritage. The other half call it boys showing off.

See also #

• The River Marches
• Statesboro