> ....so maybe the Esrolians have olives.
>
> I presume Heortlanders use a lot of tallow candles, and of course
> have milk/butter as their main source of cooking fat.
I'd think so too. I think the Esrolians get beeswax from their own bees (the Sartarites of course keep bees also, for the mead if nothing else), but also from giant darkness insects from the Shadow Plateau.
> What about the Dara Happans? Too far north for olives I would think,
> and they don't seem know for their huge herds, so what do they burn
> and what do they cook with?
That's a really good question. Nice enchanted gold, glowing away? >;D Let them use gold, says the emperor, when the people complain about the lack of candles.
> Being solar worshippers and all I could see them having huge fields
> of Sunflowers, which are an OK if not great oil seed for cooking oil,
> but I don't know how well it burns.
Hmm... There's rape of course, for oil. That grows even in Southern Finland.
> Hmmm, maybe they would have sources of mineral oils, and the
> technologies to refine them?
It doesn't seem that Dara Happan, somehow... except. Parhaps it does. One could see a connection with Lodril and Mineral Oil.
> I'm just wondering as it is another way to help show the differences
> between cultures.
>
> --Bryan
This is exactly the stuff one needs for actual gamemastering. Or I do, at least.
-Adept
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