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Question 53
What kinds of clothing fibers are common in the empire? Which kinds are valued?
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Answer 53- Clothing
Being at the centre of an intercosmic trading empire, clothing could be of any kind of fibre imaginable. There's the thick, ropey hair-like fibres sourced from the Moulting Caverns of Lest. Traders from the Impossible Sea bring hardy stagfish leather, supple sheets of prawnskin for bodysuits, and various textiles of woven loomweed. Fine couture apparel may be made from the sacred mistenfloss, gathered at midnight when the pealing of platinum bells cause gossamer strands to condense from the mists of the Wighten Moors. Speaking of gossamer, there's also rare dark gossam which is acquired from the unseen Klimteren tribes of the Klimter Forest in blind bargaining rituals. Trollhide is popular for light armours.
There's a myriad of substances from Ton, which most people refer to as alchemick silk, alchemick hemp, alchemick spider mail or whatever mundane substance it reminds them of, because the correct naming scheme used by the Alchemists is too impenetrable to remember. Formulon 82 of Maven's Opus 6 Vol I is a completely different substance to Formulon 82 of Norvun's Opus 6 Vol 1, and then Provostic Opus DXI-vi Formulon 651 may be a pleasantly coloured elastic fibre, while Formulon 652 (ibid) is a flavourless poison lethal to persons above a certain threshold of body fat.
The pre-imperial tribes of Calledron have three main sources for clothing, and these bear some currency amongst imperial residents too. Palmtree flax abraded with toothstone grit makes a durable, lustrous white fabric popular with labourers for work clothes. Likewise, beaten wheat stalks from Mother Plains is popular as a general purpose cloth across most levels of Calledron society. And for special occasions or fancier wear, various species of sallamundre from the toothtop mountains are bred or hunted for their feathers and iridescent tail plumes which may be woven into shoulder mantles, kilts and conical hats.
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Question 63- Espionage
Does the Calledron Empire, or any groups within it, operate any kind of spy agencies?