Monday, February 15, 2021

A (novel) Setting in 13 items

 Something, something, pun about bandwagons

This isn't actually a roleplaying setting, its a setting for a few stories I'm writing, and an exercise in worldbuilding. But its got a lot of good material culture so I thought it would be neat to do the 13 items challenge (?) with it.

  1. a gourd of Bird-honey, the sweet gall of the song-doves, which heartens and makes sharp the sun-addled mind
  2. a Pearlescent Cloak, the traditional garb of the herdsmen of the plains, spun from the wool of their squat animals. Sometimes it may flash the color of whatever its hem touches.
  3. a skin of Mountain Wine, made from the sweet, watery fruits of the mountain by the barbarians that live there.
  4. a Water-urn, a sacred object blessed by a cistern-spirit, an urn with two eyelets for rope, makes clean even foul river-water.
  5. a Magician's basket, a spherical thing of woven reeds with a lid sealed with animal fat. Contains a fearsome spirit.
  6. a Herdsman's Goad, a tool for pain and murder.
  7. a Purplecloth tunic, another product of the mountain-barbarians. 
  8. a Riverman's knife, for cutting grasses and reeds to eat
  9. a torch of Plainsfire. While inside the apartments of the plains cities people offer bird-honey and jewelry to the cistern spirit, on the plains they offer meat and fire, and such fire shows allegiance to squalls and grasses, and cannot be put out by them or do harm against them.
  10. a Citybeast, a very tame rodent which sustains itself on scraps and rotten food. Delicious fried and spiced.
  11. a bolt of Farcloth, said to come from the lush land over the mountains, neither keeps you warm or cool, but is dyed with many colors and patterns and is very soft.
  12. some Citybeast Soap, made from the plentiful and aromatic fat of these little creatures.
  13. a Circlet of beads, which identifies the wearer as one of special status. Different beads imply different honors: wood implies one who is blessed, bone implies a good herdsman, metals are for those who are wise.


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