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Naeryndam
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Posted - 19 Aug 2014 :  20:16:31  Show Profile Send Naeryndam a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
Do we know what the Netherese eat? Either ancient Netheril or modern Netheril is fine. Just curious what we know.


The Masked Mage
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Posted - 19 Aug 2014 :  22:55:39  Show Profile Send The Masked Mage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Read the descriptions of businesses in Karsus Enclave... if i recall 1 or two talked about food vaguely.
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Ayrik
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Posted - 19 Aug 2014 :  23:36:22  Show Profile Send Ayrik a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I expect most food would be prepared magically. Common folk of ancient Netheril could cast cantras, and most used their cantras to perform their jobs.

Shades generally have faded apppetites for food, drink, sleep, flesh, and other such sensory passions of the living. They may consume the comfort food of old Netheril as a vicarious habit which links them to their past lives.

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BEAST
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Posted - 20 Aug 2014 :  02:40:36  Show Profile  Visit BEAST's Homepage Send BEAST a Private Message  Reply with Quote
So basically, what you're saying, Ayrik, is that Shades like steam, cotton candy, and rice cakes?

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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 20 Aug 2014 :  03:08:28  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Shades eat rainbows and kittens, just to show how evil and shadowy they are.

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Eilserus
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Posted - 20 Aug 2014 :  04:01:01  Show Profile Send Eilserus a Private Message  Reply with Quote
This would be an interesting question for Ed or THO. Common or exotic type meals for the City of Shade, maybe a drink or two etc.
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Eilserus
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Posted - 20 Aug 2014 :  04:04:35  Show Profile Send Eilserus a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Here's one from Ed and THO about Blue Lethe that I believe originally appeared in Elminster: The Making of a Mage:

"'Blue lethe'" is the dwarf name for this Netherese drink, because it's blue, and because it causes short-term memory blackouts in dwarves who overindulge in it, hence the reference to Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness in the Planes). The secret of making blue lethe is now forgotten, except for a few elves of "the old" Myth Drannor who experimented until they managed to duplicate it; the Netherese who knew of its making all perished in the crash of their flying cities. It's a vivid blue, that seems to "glow" in the presence of light it can refract, is opaque rather than translucent, is made from the juices of at least three berries, one of them fermented, and mixed with certain forest plant saps and then magically treated; it is sweet but not cloying, is richly nourishing (can be a food substitute for a tenday or more without ill effects or loss of energies), and most who taste it rave about it and will pay anything for it (so adventurers can resell it to nobles and other wealthy sorts for LOTS of coin). It keeps seemingly forever (thousands of years, anyway :} ), and these days is almost always found as "burial adornments"/offerings in Netherese tombs (the elves who can still make it keep this VERY secret, and don't openly hawk their wares anywhere, always passing them off, through layers of intermediaries, as "tomb-found, genuine" blue lethe.
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Naeryndam
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Posted - 25 Aug 2014 :  04:03:34  Show Profile Send Naeryndam a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Interesting, thanks Eilserus!


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