The obvious solution is to build both at once and have a Floating Garden.Also can we try to build the dam before we build the garden, it seems like that would make more sense?
By the time the first children born after the announcement of the project were taking their rites of adulthood, the first batches of salt were already being scraped up.
Choose an Econ action
[] Expand Carrion Eaters (-1 Econ, -1 Mysticism, +1 Martial, many more Carrion Eaters, additional effects)
[] Study Stars (continues chain) + Survey Lands
[] Begin work on the Garden (-1 Econ, starts megaproject)
Special Note: Because of the discovery of needing clean water and large amounts of salt to most effectively fight these sorts of disease, starting the Saltern or the Garden next turn will provide +1 Stability as the People are assured that the king is being proactive in protection against demons
How about sending a trade mission to the Xohyssiri?[X] Expand Carrion Eaters (-1 Econ, -1 Mysticism, +1 Martial, many more Carrion Eaters, additional effects)
more of the guys who can now do primitive surgery sounds like a fantastic idea.
Shouldn't the provinces have done
I think this sentence got cut off--made dealing with painful sickness and injury....easier, presumably, but maybe something more specific that let's us know more about what type of medicinal plant it isThe healers also told of a rare flower that the People might be able to trade with the Highlanders for that made dealing with painful sickness and injury - it came from somewhere in the south-west, but there were traders who occasionally wandered up from that direction who might be able to be contacted through intermediaries.
Wait...our raids on them have been lost to history? ...So as far as teh People know, we've literally never been the aggressor, because we've forgotten the one war we were in that wasn't defending against nomads? Hmm...Or maybe they might take the relative peace of the western lowlands to send a mission to the Xohyssiri, who as far as anyone could tell the People had never actually fought and most stories were just ancient tales of monsters in the south-east.
By the way, that study stars + survey action is potentially quite valuable if we talk to the metal workers and they have discovered bronze - we'd have a chance to check our lands for tin immediately.