THE FINAL POST OF ANCARDIAN FARMERS!
The Ratling is difficult to narrow down, but the Surface settlements of the southern Heartland are known to be high in ratling population, and the farmers of that race do their best to conform with the Empire's tax adjustments. The ratlings of this are in particular copy and enhance the practices of their often richer human neighbors--keeping vegetable and dog breeds with much more admirable traits. It remains a necessity to outperform as a ratling in the Heartland Empire, even long after the days that Empire Humans of noble class and visiting High Elves could claim you as property...
Trolls, both the Surface Parrgeg and the Underground Murruk tribal groups, are accomplished farmers. Here, the Parrgeg is strongly represented in the way they keep their vegetable plots and mountain ibex herds, with a small focus on the beehives which are far more emphasized with their sister tribe. Even so, troll farmers of each sort are not unable to trade secrets, and Trollish communications have remained simple and without political interference for several Ages of this world.
A neaula farmer saddles up their tamed Antediluvian Drake and rides out--intent to herd the smaller, more common Riding Drakes to new foraging lands and to guard them from attack atop the fearsome mount. Wood Elves have long had a positive working relationship with the many species of Drakes that populate the southern hemisphere of Ancardia, and keep various species domesticated for anything from feathers, scaly leathers, eggs and companionship. The Antediluvian Drake is notoriously difficult and independent, not to mention large and dangerous, so any neaula rider able to command such a creature commands a lot of respect, and wealth.
I've been waiting and working upon this series of the homebrew setting's Farmer series, and since the basic set ends at the standard "Wood Elven' piece, but is short one piece, I thought I would add a subcultural farmer-associated piece using one of the Ancardian cultures yet used, and displaying the usual status of the poor, afflicted Vampires among the folk of this world.
As it sits, with most Ancardian societies, those who are sickened with the disease of Vampirism are at a terrible, hopeless fate of being slaughtered by the Heartland Empire, the Ayn Monarchy, or other affiliated--or similarly-idealed--folk!
Amongst those humans outside the range of the Heartland empire, as well as a number of cultures of the Underground who don't care to aggress the sickly and instead assist the diseased and disabled in their population, the Vampires find they are able to make their workings. Here we see a H'Zaari human vampire, working diligently on his attempt to treat those both like himself and those cursed with illnesses similar to his own! With a careful cultivation of his own medicinal leeches, he has found the ability to more easily acquire his own treatment and to study the means to release a simply and humane treatment for all Vampires among the people everywhere, though it is something that old interests, mindbogglingly, resist with bloodshed and force.
