Altered Lore

The Farm

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The Farm

Overview

The Farm is a Muna agricultural complex at The Screed, established in 393 AC under the patronage of Gran Bwa. It serves as the primary food supply for The Mess and the broader Expeditionary Corps.

Location and Structure

The Farm was formed through a single act of Alteration, entwining the facility with a gigantic cypress tree—the largest in all of The Screed. Barns, silos, and granaries are naturally embedded in the trunk to benefit from its cover and consistent temperature. A windmill turns at leisurely pace, fanned by wind blowing over the Screed, while dense cypress foliage stirs and rustles above. The surrounding area has been transformed into wheat fields, vineyards, orchards, and vegetable gardens providing fruits, tubers, and legumes.

Operations

The Farm maintains high yields as its top priority to supply The Mess with quality ingredients. An annex houses the Expeditionary Corps’ pack and livestock animals previously confined to The Ouroboros, resulting in flocks of sheep tended by shepherds across the plains of the Screed.

Many Muna were requisitioned to work on The Farm and surrounding pastures during the Rediscovery Endeavor, leaving exploration of the City of Scholars to specialized Hellequin hunters.

Botanical Research

Alongside food production, The Farm hosts botanical workshops analyzing properties of newly discovered plant life: medicinal herbs, toxic shrubs, and edible berries. In coordination with the Axiom, Ordis, and occasionally the Yzmir, the Muna compile a herbarium cataloging traits of unknown flora.

393 AC - Sap as Fertilizer

The Farm began using the golden Sap extracted from the City of Scholars as fertilizer, adding to the substance’s versatile applications across the expedition.

393 AC - Sap Warning

Waru Toowoom issued a warning to The Farm to stop using Sap for crops, citing insufficient evidence of the substance’s safety and the need to investigate what triggered the City of Scholars’ decline, though he requested a gradual transition rather than administrative closure.

Relationships

  • Flore: Arjun’s niece; her Eidolon (summoned from Arjun’s memories) tends vegetable gardens at The Farm
  • The Screed: Parent location containing The Farm
  • Muna: Faction that operates the facility; many requisitioned to work here during expedition
  • Gran Bwa: Eidolon patron of The Farm
  • The Mess: Primary recipient of The Farm’s produce
  • The Ouroboros: Airship from which livestock was relocated
  • Axiom: Collaborates on botanical research
  • Ordis: Collaborates on botanical research
  • Yzmir: Occasionally collaborates on botanical research
  • Expeditionary Corps: Force supplied by The Farm
  • Hellequin: Specialist hunters freed from farm duties for City of Scholars exploration
  • Noosh Burrowers: Creatures that sprouted vegetation from napping in farm vegetable plots
  • City of Scholars: Source of the Sap used as fertilizer (393 AC)
  • Waru Toowoom: Ordis politician who issued warning to stop Sap use for crops (393 AC)

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