Given that Dwarf favor is no longer a thing, can we just buy any non-secret book with gold now?
Dwarfs: "So, you're telling us that our problems stem from eating all this Umgi wheat?"
We'll get our dragon professor in anthropology yet. It's definitely nice to see him socialize as there's little anthropology to be made by reading books all day long.
So we need a Dawi nutritionist. It's not that farfetched either, considering what absolute pains people have had in their days. Scurvy in Europe and Beriberi in Japan/Asia
I wonder how severe the jitters actually are; are we talking 'more nervous and easily startled', or 'will go fight-freeze-flight at the slightest provocation'? Because one of those is not ideal but still workable, while the other almost entitely neuters the usefulness of the goo.
Boney's already said he's not going to have that conversation.
I'm curious what her thoughts are here, that there's something in Bretonnian crops that Imperial crops lack? Or something about Reikland wheat vs. Stirland wheat?
You may kid, but Winds infuse things. Winds infusing Dawi is bad mojo, possibly even at a remove. It's possible that Valaya or another Ancestor in did in fact leave something in the farming techniques passed down to their descendants that helps further mitigate the effects of the world on their people, if not actively shielding their food, and the importance of this has been lost like so much else.
I'm not knocking her theory, just noting that the response of some Dwarfs is probably going to be raising their fist at the sky shouting "Umgis!"
It could be something as simple as differences in the local fruit and vegetables, or local meats. For example, one hold has access to (for a random example) carrots and others don't, and it turns out carrots are perfect for dwarven nutritional requirements.
A difference in position meaning that rather than only importing grain, the young holds (which are generally easier to get to) also import more meats, fruits and vegetables?
