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==== Diet and environs ==== | ==== Diet and environs ==== | ||
Wood-children were basic, eschewing all [[financial technology]], dealing only in the amount of individual ''stoki'' (small rabbit-like creatures they hunted in the Woods) they or their families could eat, but as they became domesticated they would supplementing their diet — in many cases abandoning their traditional diet altegether — with a manufactured puree the Mohloki made for them (called variously “''etievs''” or “''etiens''”) and the older specimens would eat a less-calorific preparation called “''pensioni''”. | Wood-children were basic, eschewing all [[financial technology]], dealing only in the amount of individual ''stoki'' (small rabbit-like creatures they hunted in the Woods) they or their families could eat, but as they became domesticated they would supplementing their diet — in many cases abandoning their traditional diet altegether — with a manufactured puree the Mohloki made for them (called variously “''etievs''” or “''etiens''”) and the older specimens would eat a less-calorific preparation called “''pensioni''”. Generically, wood-children fodder is called “Pripi”. | ||
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By the same token they were protected and, above all other civil and military priorities, it was forbidden to hunt or exploit the {{Cotw}}, except with the special permission and authorisation of the King, who set up a ministry for that sole purpose. | By the same token they were protected and, above all other civil and military priorities, it was forbidden to hunt or exploit the {{Cotw}}, except with the special permission and authorisation of the King, who set up a ministry for that sole purpose. | ||
In the castle the Mohloki, retained to feed and maintain the pensioni fields and manage the wood-children communities, are themselves paid a pittance and largely housed remotely in salted plains to the north. Occasionally some make it to the royal city to live among the Lanchmani but it is not encouraged . are fed an articulated slop comprising commercially harvested stocks and bonds, bones, brains, testicles, hallucinogenic juice of mushrooms which are designed to be, or at least give the impression of being, super nutritious — but periodically are riven with toxins and bacteria causing sudden, widespread bouts of dissentry, meningitis or even death. The Lanchmani — the ruling class, do not eat this slop but extract a creamy essence off the | In the castle the Mohloki, retained to feed and maintain the pensioni fields and manage the wood-children communities, are themselves paid a pittance and largely housed remotely in salted plains to the north. Occasionally some make it to the royal city to live among the Lanchmani but it is not encouraged. | ||
Mohloki are fed an articulated slop called “compe” which comprising the crappy bits that don’t go in the Pripi: commercially harvested stocks and bonds, bones, brains, testicles, hallucinogenic juice of wilding fungus mushrooms which are designed to be, or at least give the impression of being, super nutritious — but periodically are riven with toxins and bacteria causing sudden, widespread bouts of dissentry, meningitis or even death. | |||
The Lanchmani — the ruling class, do not eat this slop but extract a creamy essence off the Pripi - before it has a chance to go off - and eat that. It is a much prized delicacy. | |||