RS042 There’s an irony to the idea that glass could be a currency in a world covered in sand. But all glass is not created equal. Glass is valued based on purity: the clearer and more brilliant the glass, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Western Waste
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RS043 Low-grade glass, or ‘diglass’, has less value as currency than it does as a raw material, for what it lacks in lustre it makes up for in versatility and strength. The impurity of diglass is intentional—glaziers introduce carefully-controlled amounts[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS044 The cartographer credited with having first mapped all of Erj is Uatio of Nulspire, an erjan sage who purportedly spent decades travelling to the corners of the world—and braving the dangers therein—to create the standard projection used today by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS045 Llyran produce is preferred throughout Erj for its exceptional ability to help clear one’s respiratory system of ash. This is primarily due to sylph agricultural and horticultural practices, which yield a particularly potent effect. However, any plant capable of surviving on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS046 The windroot’s terrible flavour often sees it used for a secondary purpose: it is fairly easily fermented into a spirit, a form in which the taste is at least expected and, by some accounts, somewhat improved. To some in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS047 Intoxication is not the only altered state sought by those under the falling sun. Suneater augurs are reputed to brew a tea from ash itself which is said to provide not only a substantial hallucinogenic high, but in in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS048 Navi Yanu is famously the most affluent settlement in Erj. Citizens of the walled Bastion enjoy high quality food, finely tailored clothing, and ash-free air cleaner than even Llyri. For all its opulence, many find it surprising that a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS049 The Third Hand maintains a guild hall in almost every major erjan center—even Navi Yanu, where their largest profits are earned not from theft, gambling, or extortion, but from smuggling goods and even people in and out of the Bastion. Given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS050 Erj is littered with ruins of every size and description—remnants of past civilizations, forgotten by the present ones. While the sylph, in their bid to understand their spiritual transgression against Ybris, take the study of their past very seriously,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
RS051 Despite the general erjan apathy for history, One familiar culture of erjan antiquity is the Ejskan (literally ‘ancient erjan’) people, whose telltale figurative sculpture work and windowed columns are easily identified—and impressively durable, given their age. Predating the modern[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…