Editing Breoa (section)

== Land Worth Less Than Dust ==
Many say that the land of Breoa is worth less than dust. An acre that could feed dozens in Doz might only be able to feed two or three in Breoa. Everyone lives on a knife’s edge. Without the steady supply of food brought back by the raiders, it is almost certain the land would enter a famine.

==== Arctic Land ====
Breoa is well within the arctic of Ramesh. During the winter months, like in [[Kovorov]], the sun disappears from the sky creating the polar night. In addition, the mountains have created areas known as arctic deserts. Very little precipitation falls. Not even snow blesses Breoans who usually melt snow into water for drinking. If there was ever a place not to live, it would be Breoa.

==== Breoan Beekeeping ====
Surprisingly, the Breoans have found a way to improve their crop yields, create a tradable item, and make sweet mead all with one industry: beekeeping. The beekeepers of Breoa mostly operate near Razzia. With elementrix to aid them in keeping the bees warm in the winter, the beekeepers travel in great caravans across Breoa during the spring, summer, and autumn months.

These bees pollinate the meager crops of Breoa allowing them to create yields two or three times what is expected (and yet the yield is still far lower than anywhere else on the continent). Family history and tradition, passed down orally, is how the new beekeepers are taught. There is a beekeeping guild in Razzia but they do not teach new keepers. Instead, the guild helps regulate crop production and makes sure the bees are being kept in safe conditions. Every family of beekeepers has different methods. 

Those families with stellar methods have survived generations. Families with poor skills either starved or moved to raiding. Because of this, it has become difficult to replicate the techniques of the beekeepers in other areas around Ramesh. Many master beekeepers have their students simply observe over decades. No scholar has been able to wait with a single family for decades yet to learn their secrets...yet.

A new beekeeper is considered an apprentice. This apprentice helps the master beekeeper of a family until their death. When the master dies, the apprentice becomes a full beekeeper. One of the regular beekeepers of the family then rises to the rank of master beekeeper and takes new apprentices.

Sometimes, thieves from outside Breoa will attempt to kidnap a master beekeeper. This is devastating for a family. Ransoms can climb as high as ten thousand gold pieces. However, powerful or rich beekeeping families might hire a group of raiders to get their family member back. The raiders, who understand the need for Breoan bees, are usually happy to oblige. Woe to those who kidnap a master and are not prepared for the onslaught that is about to befall them.

Finally, in the winter months, the beekeepers harvest honey from their bees. This honey is used to make the legendary Breoan mead. During a time when the sun does not rise and the raiders are stuck in port, nothing lifts the spirits in a Breoan tavern than when a keg of newly made mead is broken open. This mead, spoken about mythically around Ramesh, is Breoa’s one true export.

==== Harvesting the Elements ====
Across Breoa there are areas of strong elemental magic. These places are searched for by element hunters. The hunters find the elements and then lead a crew with an elementrix back to the location.

To be an element hunter requires an incredible understanding of nature, toughness, and perseverance. Places with a high concentration of elemental magic might be weeks from civilization. An element hunter must be self-sufficient and able to handle the harsh arctic environment. Not only this, but they then must lead a team back into the wild to coax out the elemental.

The person who is responsible for getting the elemental into the elementrix is known as a Menfi or an element tamer. These individuals, told the secret of element taming usually by a Saint, are some of the most powerful people in Breoa. It is after being led to the elemental that the Menfi follow their training and coax the creature into its new home. This process is draining. Most Menfi wait at least twenty-four hours before exerting themselves again after housing an elemental.

==== Dangerous Creatures ====
Many dangerous creatures stalk the lands of Breoa. Giants reign in the Risi Mountains to the North. Griffins make their home in the Fangelsi Mountains to the South. In between, large mammoths roam. While gentle, a startled mammoth is certainly a handle full. Hunting mammoths is all manor of large predators. Saber tooth cats, snow bears, wyverns, rocks, and even the occasional yeti all hunt the arctic wastelands searching for mammoth or humanoid alike.

The native Breoans do not hunt mammoths. This is for a simple reason; decreasing the mammoth population means the predators get bolder. Villages can become a ghost town in the night if the mammoth population drops too low. A hungry yeti can easily eat a dozen humanoids in a single night.