>>5639273>>5639274Vettirgard is silent for now. They have heard little from north or south, so there's mainly just feasts and debates. A debate the Vardyger has with his shamans regards the necessity for the raven sacrifice. If perhaps there is a way to just seize the blessing. The shamans warn that we'd be upsetting the balance, bringing woe upon us, but the Vardyger points out that the raven sacrifice is also one that brings woe. Of course he is fully aware of how dangerous it is to go up against the raven spirit, but that is because we are unarmed in the astral realm. Perhaps if we were to become hunters in the astral realm we could renegotiate the terms, or dictate them. But it's all speculation, for the Vardyger is not as adept as his father in the spiritual arts. But maybe, soon.
>Action 1: Build Lead and Alexandrite mines in the northern mountains.The Wights of the north start to setup mines near where the army is guarding. The Colour-changing crystals are of obvious great value as jewellery and ritual objects. But the lead has a less obvious function: Fishing. Wights attach weights to the edge of nets so they sink faster, but stone weights are bulky and fragile. Lead weights work much better, and lead is even easier to forge than gold.
>Action 2: Develop dyes and paints based on Menot's Garden (nicknaming it Deiya's Bloom). Try cultivating specific colours on the marsh island (confirming if they can be farmed).The Seawights find the many colours of the flowers fascinating, but have run into some problems when trying to simply grind the plants onto the wood of their ships. A yellow flower may produce a blue dye, the colour may wash off afterwards, or just be a staining of the wood, not paint. But after rigorous cataloguing and preparing, the Wights create a whole plethora of dyes and even paints, allowing them to paint ships a dazzling array of colours, each one strong. They can even dye clothing with it, creating brightly coloured furs. However some also try to grow the flowers outside of Deiya's Bloom, which if possible will allow us to produce vast quantities of exotic dyes.
