To Live Beneath the Earth
The itinerant scholar identified as ‘Silk-and-Silver’ recounts his time living amongst the eccentric brethren of the Monastery of the Fifth Cup.
I’m Reading…
The author praises the irrepressible work ethic of the monks when it comes to winemaking. The Monastery earns vast amounts of wealth from selling them, but maintains their ascetic precepts by, paradoxically, using their wealth to fund decadent feasts.
I’ve Read…
Silk-and-Silver attends a feast and is proffered a portion of their stronger wines. He describes it to be ‘sweet as autumn pines’ and ‘hive-bodied’ among other things, before drinking himself to sleep. When he awoke, he found himself in the scriptorium producing the ink viridimentum, brewing it from a ‘vicious ferment’ with the Heart-arts of Herbs and Infusions - something he never recalls learning. **Effect: **Memory: Satisfaction **Mastery: **Lesson: Herbs & Infusions
Aspects
- Mystery: Heart 6
- Subject: Herbs & Infusions
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Substructure