Fibers

Tzi Hahasus · Post by **Tzi Hahasus** » Tue May 13, 2003 1:45 pm

Our characters on Illarion must very hot. They walk around all day in wool and leather-but there are plenty of other, cooler fibers that can be spun. For instance, linen is made of flax which is grown and dried. Cotton cloth is made of cotton, which is also grown. I don't see how it would be too much trouble to create some new plants for spinning and weaving cotton and flax. And with the sheep gone now, it would provide an alternative for the tailors. And then there's silk, which is made from the cocoons of moths. Could it be possible to have a moth pen like the sheep pen, where you could gather silk to spin...
Also, these fibers could have difficulty levels-you have to be good at spinning wool before you can spin flax, and you have to be good at spinning flax before you can spin cotton, since flax is harder to spin than wool, and cotton is harder to spin than wool and flax, because it has short fibers.

Elaralith · Post by **Elaralith** » Wed May 14, 2003 3:37 am

This is a good idea...that has already been proposed in the past...I said pretty much the same thing before.

Concerning silk: It has been discussed and concluded I believe that the medieval fantasy that illarion is based in is European...maybe silk would be a bit out of place? It is a good idea still though I think.

Faramier · Post by **Faramier** » Wed May 14, 2003 3:14 pm

Byzantium had silk, therefore europe could of quite easily gained silk.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Wed May 14, 2003 4:08 pm

yeah

anyone ever heard of the silk road? it was only like one of the largest and most popular trade routes in history

Tzi Hahasus · Post by **Tzi Hahasus** » Wed May 14, 2003 5:37 pm

I thought this idea was a little obvious not to have been mentioned before...but I did search for it. Oh well..

Silk Road on an island?

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Wed May 14, 2003 8:28 pm

everything is basically "shipped" in from the mainland anyways.

Alnerith Dencort · Post by **Alnerith Dencort** » Thu May 15, 2003 2:17 pm

I love that idea. Being a farmer myself i have been long awating for something to grow other than the boring old cabbages and grain. and i think that stuff like corn would have been grown more than cabbages.

Maktan Hardtooth. · Post by **Maktan Hardtooth.** » Thu May 15, 2003 3:01 pm

I don't think they had corn back then unless you are saying that Illarion is in North America where corn came from. If so then why all the buildings are not indian tents

Rynt · Post by **Rynt** » Thu May 15, 2003 8:10 pm

Be aware that america is not in this game.

Here, corn could grow on a remote island...called Illarion.

If there is no america, where does corn come from?

Somewhere else of course.Somewhere that has been discovered.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Thu May 15, 2003 8:41 pm

ARGH. When you mean america i take it you mean the usa because im sure thats probobly what you mean. they grew corn just about all over north america.

Rynt · Post by **Rynt** » Thu May 15, 2003 8:42 pm

Yes, but there is no Usa here.So corn could not grow there, because it does not exist.Therefore, it would grow somewhere else.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Thu May 15, 2003 9:20 pm

you know there is more than one country in north america? there is also two fairly large places called canada and mexico. It is from a european perspective, but, then why do we have banana's? After all we can kill demons? I dont know anywhere on earth you can do that. Even though serpardum isnt a developer anymore when he was he told me there would be a new shipment of seeds from the mainland, which i hope is still going to happen.

Tzi Hahasus · Post by **Tzi Hahasus** » Thu May 15, 2003 9:50 pm

Corn originated around/in Mexico. Cultivated by the Aztecs I believe

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Thu May 15, 2003 10:38 pm

it might have origionated in mexico but, the indians at plymouth planted corn.