Sunken roads are common in the Land of the Venn, due to bad weather. Also, no doors or windows on the west. Art wise, their wall paintings and tapestries are fantastically lapidary, and their swan vases are world famous for their grace and beauty.

Trade

Yeath and wool are commodities the Venn trade. They grow hardy barley, which they bake and brew, oats as well. They are fishers, and consume a lot of dairy products, cream being popular in their cookery. Their stoves, which warm houses beneath the flooring, and their sleeping platforms have influenced heating all over the world.

Their coins are distinctive from the six and twelve-sided Sartoran "sunbursts" that predominate in the south. They are round coins, mostly silver but some gold, all called drams, a word descended from the dirhams they brought over with the original drakken ship. The exact face has changed little, right down to the Arabic writing, whose meaning is long since lost: the Venn attribute those squiggles to Old World magic, or to dragonlore, left over from a brief period of time when dragons appeared in Sartorias-deles, mostly in the north, before they vanished again. (There is some speculation that the mysterious migration of the early Chwahir has to do with these dragons.)

See Also

• Land of the Venn, Atlas page

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