Food & Drink¶
What the peoples of Terrun eat is recorded mostly as how they get it: who farms, who hunts, who scavenges, and which kingdoms are known for which harvest. The sources name crops and drinks (apples, bread, grain, wheat and maize, wine, beer and ale) but no dish, recipe or meal. The inns and taverns of Proturas are the best-described places to eat and drink.
Farming and harvests¶
Agriculture was the first work of the Fifth Age. In the Morning after the Dark Sun, "concerted efforts are made by other groups of survivors to rebuild agrarian societies. Lands are tilled and sown again," and by the 100s SM "lands that were fertilized by devastation are now regrowing" (S326). Proturas went to war for food: "needing to increase food production to feed its increasing population", it clear-cut the southern forests for farms and fought the Boreal Elves for twenty years over them (S107).
Among the Riven kingdoms, Alghert "is well known for its apples and bread", Brusau for vegetable farming in its hills, Miydal for "its vineyards and wine", Ozaustein for wheat and maize, and Uthein for grain farming (S319). Inside the Sancturi Imperium, House Arvumas "produces more food than all of the other houses combined" from "some of the most secure and well developed farmland in the Imperium", the lesser House Bellamare is known for "orchards, wine, tailors, runecasters", and Great House Thanaxa for "beer, ale, textiles and builders" (S322). Food is a weapon there; see Currency & Trade for the Arvumas embargo.
Hunting, fishing and gathering¶
The hunting peoples eat what they catch. The Boreal Elves live by "hunting, fishing, and foraging", and some tribes "migrate with the seasons, following game or sacred paths" (S100). The Naher "revere hunters (primary food source)"; women "often fish, hunt small game, gather, craft", while big game is mostly men's work (S524). The Compendium adds that the nomadic Naher stay in a place "for a few months and then moving on when they have hunted all the easily available game", with agriculture used "mostly to supplement their hunting and ranching" (S372). The Korun combine raiding with "their hunting and agricultural skills as a means of survival" and keep their horses, pigs, cows and sheep inside the house; the clans of Rhovun roam the plains "as hunters and gatherers where food is plentiful" (S372). Mountain dwarves farm and ranch in the mountain meadows above their halls (S372).
The Silek¶
The Silek "prefer meat but are omnivores capable of eating almost anything, including insects and rotten foods" (S025). They scavenge, keep animals "(and slaves in a pinch)", and "do very little sowing and reaping themselves, but employ slaves in some cases to do it for them, especially with old dwarven farms." Their enslaved caste is "used for labor, ritual sacrifice and food". Silek alchemy, including the Goblin-draughts sold across Terrun, is on Technology.
Inns and taverns of Proturas¶
The working district of Spillwater is crowded with food trades: "butchers, millers, and potters", meat and plant processing, a meagre fishery on the still water, and a smell of meat that "is overpowering, almost suffocating" (S103). It is "home of many low-end taverns & brothels", geared to the working classes, with eight inns and nine taverns named and "only a single Inn in the district which can even claim 'mediocre' quality". Their names (the Muddy Mermaid, the Bargeman's Inn, the Hauler's Hearth, the Potter's Pint Tavern, the Troll's Tankard, the Grumpy Goblin) belong to the trades they serve.
The Stairs above it have more and better houses: some fifteen inns, lodges and taverns, from the Tiddly Toad to the Moon Lodge, catering to "the working classes and crafters", with the Proturan Stairs Grainery and the Proturan City Storehouse among the district's government buildings (S104). Proturan establishments are graded by the quality of what they sell. The named inns and taverns are described on their district pages.
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No source names a dish, a staple meal, a feast, a brewing or wine-making practice, or a food taboo, and none says what is eaten on Godsday or at any festival. The diets of the elves outside the Boreal tribes, the dwarves, the orcs and the Sancturi commons are unrecorded.