Saturday, May 31, 2025

Orsire'anar, Dark elf city.

Above the seething ocean of upper asthenospheric magma, looms a black vaulted ceiling bristling with the roots of vast, inverted trees. Their trunks hang stalactite tight, splaying upsidedown umbrellas of shaggy green leaves, drinking in the infernal glow. 
Great ovoid dormitories of spider silk, hammock in the leafy boughs like clutches of demented silver eggs, offering shade from the baleful glare below. Sandwiched between them are gangplank paths of resin smelling wood that sway limply on silken tethers with each exhalation of scalding sulphurous steam. Iron cauldrons are lowered by chains to cook in the heat of the lower altitudes. fruit-bats ride the thermals in contented stupor. Cicadas buzz and in the distance the great whooping calls of gibbons resound beneath the igneous rock. This is Orsire'anar, greatest city of the dark elves. 

Meals in Orsire'anar:

  1. Chaffles made from gibbon cheese and snake eggs, topped with escargot.
  2. Fermenting bats glazed in cicada honeydew secretions and rotisseried.
  3. Brain served raw and thinking from a gibbon with hobbled arms.
  4. Squirming Insect grubs slathered in melty gibbon cheese with pomegranate and fig.
  5. Pickled snake meat and bat foetus skewers.
  6. Live baby snakes, cut straight from the mother.
  7. Slowcooked snake, pulled, and served in salt and vinegar.
  8. Jellied gibbon eyes on bug-meal hardtack, with a cheese platter.
  9. Snottite noodles in mushroom stew with hard boiled snake eggs and blood sausage.
  10. Candied wasps, dried mushroom and pomegranate seeds.


Drinks in Orsire'anar:

  1. Pomegranate moonshine, speed fermented with snottite acid. 
  2. Vintage fig and mushroom wine. 
  3. Giant spider haemolymph, tapped straight from the steed.
  4. Gibbon milk sweetened with cicada honeydew secretions.
  5. Snake wine, with added wasps. 
  6. Carbonated fruit juice.
  7. Herbal tea made from assorted plants and fungi.
  8. Fish oil imports, squeezed from stygofauna in a subterranean freshwater ocean above.
  9. Pulped insect larvae in dilute vinegar, chewy like boba. 
  10. Colour shifting hallucinogenic mushroom juice.


The dark elves of  Orsire'anar are interested in buying:

  • Ice, or anything similarly cold.
  • Books and paintings. They have a certain smugness that such things can only be appreciated in places with light.
  • Surface goods, preferably nothing metal due to the heat.
  • Your eyes, if they're pretty, you’ll hardly need them venturing back into the dark afterall.
  • Untarnished silver, an excellent way to detect poison.
  • Slaves, the prettier the better.


They sell:

  • Fire resistant timber and carpentry, from the inverted pomegranate trees.
  • Food, at low prices too.
  • Spider silk rope, tents and garnments most of which are super skimpy due to the heat.
  • Poisons in an alarming wide variety. 
  • Amber, with little insects in them.
  • Giant spiders, domesticated as steeds, temperament as a house cat.
  • Slaves, if you’re that kind of a person.


 

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