Ensuring the quality of the one unique trait of the lake-berries is easy, though it is the reason most packaging has at least some transparent parts: The glow is easy to spot with people around, and as long as the colour is uniform within a batch, it safe to assume it is good.
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The Jam/Jelly products, while cooked, undergo the same analysis before and after the cooking process. While these do not require cooling, they often still go for the same "refrigerator-trips" through Balystran, though most of the time they are not stored there, unlike other foods.
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Cold-pressed juices out of lake-berries are sampled in tight intervalls, analyzed for quality and any potential contaminations, to adhere to food regulation standards of most of the 7 Worlds nations. Even then, they are cooled down to lengthen shelf-life, again often via trip to Balystran.
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Lake-Berries are monitored basically in each step to the final product. Even when harvested via semi-mechanical means, they are still handpicked, then cleaned before turned into must for further processing. The grinding-devices are constantly monitored as well.
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Hunting animals, especially for food has large grown out of fashion. The vast majority of food is now produced by agricultural means, either traditional, or via highly efficient vertical farms of some variety. So the entire practice is almost non-existant now.
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To prevent decay however, it either requires ultra-fast logistics, which makes fresh must rather rare. The other option is frozen must, which usually is achieved by simply transporting it to, or via Balystran, the icy world itself being a convenient way to lengthen shelf-life in general.
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It is a bit unusual, but yes, part of the must made from lake-berries is goign directly to customers, mostly for very special culinary needs, but sometimes also for research and medicine, due to its properties on tele-empathic fields, especially the Delestran one.
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I don't have such a symbolism defined in the 7 Worlds. Then again, due to the number of sentient species in all shapes and sizes running about there, such a thing would resemble more of a portrait really.
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Getting rid of timelime-byproducts is more akin to hiding evidence. It is hard to zest these, as their skin is very rugged, so it is usually left over and easily recognized. And just throwing the seeds into your compost might grew more timelime-trees, and noone really wants that.
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Unsurprisingly, the byproducts in this step are all bio-degradable, the twigs, the few leaves and the skin (if removed) can all be composted and used as fertilizer afterwards. Part of the seeds are kept for replanting, some are processed into an oil which is very expensive.
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Again, this is more of a gap in my worldbuilding indeed, so there is not much extraordinary going on here the 7 Worlds as far as moving things or riding go. However, the 7 Worlds did have automated transportation quite early via magic means, later tech ones of course.
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It is the very opposite for timelimes. Noone even openly admits using or experimenting with them, but people know it is being done. By their very nature, people feel in advanced they will consume a timelime in some form, as timelimes make their way into some daring experimental cuisines.
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There are various best-practices of course, depending a bit on the final product (jam/jelly/juice), but it is well documented, and people can be trained in this quite easily. Since access to lake-berries itself is limited, there is no need to keep this step secret really.
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Squishing lake-berries into must is not really a secret by itself. There are plenty of documentaries about it actually. Sure, the techniques refined over time and the producers use their experience to optimize the results, yet they usually cooperate with each other.
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Ultimately, most parts of the 7 Worlds enjoy their diversity, and while they are all different, in that, they are all equal.
Apologies if this strayed too much from the prompt's intention and turned into some romantic/foolish concepts.
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... the list could go on probably endless anyway. You could ask the question about being sentient, and again get totally lost in it, given the wide range of beings present on the 7 Worlds by now.
But often, it matters little to the 7 Worlds, since everyone is so different anyway.
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Perhaps this is the one question that is both the most interesting and least important one in the 7 Worlds. Of course people have countless names for countless taxonomies of beings that traverse the worlds. Mortals, Spirits, Synths, Demons, Extraplanars, Net-Echoes...
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Again, magic means are avoided for grinding, however, heavier, if still delicate machines can be used here, usually they provide the power for the grinding mechanisms. An exception sometimes are barrels made of enchanted/magic wood, to enhance the flavour/traits of the lake-berries.
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The majority of the harvest is ground down into a must. Depending on the desired type of the final jam/jelly/juice, sometimes the skin and/or the seeds are removed before grinding them. The must is not stored for long though, usually processed further on site, or quickly transported elsewhere
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A small part of the harvested lake-berries are prepared for retail in various form, either as fresh fruit, requiring an express-lane so they do not spoil, even though they do have resilient skins. There are also canned/frozen packages, which tend to be a bit cheaper.
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I am afraid this is a genuine gap in my worldbuilding, so no, i did not really define creatures for my 7 Worlds. I guess the narratives i build in there are very focussed on people and communities and how the entire society and interaction works.
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... but this might have been a field-test for some industrial sabotage. This curse itself never spread far enough to affect lake-berry production, but as water is a good arcane medium, this curse would have made most lakes unusable quickly.
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However, there was an incident at a smaller orchard, which became afflicted with a curse, slowly turning the area into a contaminated tarpit, mutating and twisting the plants, if not stopped in time. A cursebreaker was sent to remedy this and succesful. The culprit was never found...
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There has been no conflict over lake-berries really, still being a consumable luxury for the most part, and overall enscharyan agricultural institutions take great care to preserve their ecosystems as a whole. So apart from usual fluctuations, there has been major incident.
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Upfront, this week's theme is not going to be my strong suit, but i'll do my best to provide a little at least.
Julienne Victoria Coldhaven, a Grandmistress of a Gray-Paladin order converses with ravens, using them as scouts & spies for her orders' marks.
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But either way, you will be able to participate into the harvest-festivities, and it does feel much more rewarding if you did help in some way. A bit of insider's tip for tourists that don't mind an adventure.
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Some are in the night as well, but probably not right after the night-harvest, people work through the night until dawn to harvest the berries.
It is still impressive to look at; Enscharys' empathic field will nudge you gently to lend a hand when you watch a night-harvest.
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It depends on the local customs. As Enscharys does not have strong seasonal changes, harvesting periods are arbitrary, so each region has their own traditions, and thus may have local celebrations after a harvest indeed.
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Thus lake-berries can be harvested several times in the year, in fact, overall there is always a constant, if still small influx of lake-berries.
Still, while lake-berries are quite resilient, water and soil quality of the lakes is constantly monitored to keep the ecosystem as a whole intact
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