Re: Murex Re: Minaryth Purple

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_ELjPvkTb3Cf8oHOk03S8Tp7BYVAzlCD1eMiDg4VGyEdwHcRVYkGPvc2jn94y_>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:34:53 +0000 (GMT)

• Toread DuDerysi <jakyer_at_OscXK_V7cslQpBvX06zBUyVA5r63NGZNPkgYaCc2bhGC0NiKvYej1wqeMcMAuzk804cMc3NVk55VLh-Eq5yu.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
  > Predatory Murex snails, a myth about them, and their
  > use as a dye
  > appear in Trader Princes. The Prince of Fay Jee has
  > imported at great
  > expense a priestess from the Right Arm islands of
  > the Murex Lady to
  > start up a dyeing industry to go with the existing
  > indigo plantations.
  

So Purple is an expensive dye in Glorantha, too? This does sound good, I'm really looking forward to Trader Princes.

> Sadly, Fay Jee, being on a river estuary, is very
> much not the right
> environment for these snails who love deep, clear
> sea water. They
> flourish in several other places such as in the
> Manirian or Wenelian
> Islands. No doubt some enterprising
> merchant-adventurer will realize
> this and become very rich (or very dead after
> ticking off the Sea Tribe).

Any guesses if Minaryth Purple (and his "Animals of the World 10W") know about this and have anything to do with it?                 

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