#samali

Playing around with @dess1ne’s Royal AU fae knight concept! 

A breed of fae that hatches from magical and rare fruit, that starts as little squires with natural armour, that eventually grows up into big, looming knights ready to protect and serve a worthy charge. 

This new little squire is mine, named Samali. She has much to learn, to become a knight, but was taken in by a wild squad of knights, and has the best mentors and teachers to learn from. 

Enjoy!

Samali is a semolina-cake scented with mastic, one of the traditional Greek so-called “tray sweets”, even though not so famous as its glamorous cousins, the baklava or kataifi. It is a modest sweet soaked in fragrant syrup and modest because it has nuts only as decoration and not as main ingredient.

Its origin is from Smyrna (Izmir) in today’s Turkey and was brought to Greece with Greek refugees from Asia Minor.