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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zurai" data-source="post: 3860970" data-attributes="member: 52324">A bunch of answers for ya'll:Agriculture is extremely solid for such a primitive society. Conditions are pretty much perfect for grains: Nile style annual flooding leaving rich, fertile soil behind; Plant Growth spells to dramatically increase potential yield; and pseudo-experts in the form of spirit-talkers associated with the river or crop type plants. Cuirlen farms could easily produce enough food to make sure everyone has bread. As James mentioned, though, people tend to like meat better than grains.Thus, the "large" population of hunters. I actually wouldn't say it's all that large; there are upwards of 300 dedicated farmers, counting the children of farming families (though not all produce edible crops - cotton, for instance). There might be 75 hunters, if that, and in that category are the ones that are focused on leather and fur rather than meat. Farming is a lot harder work than hunting, and hunters have a much higher mortality rate than farmers. The two factors combine to keep the farmer:hunter ratio fairly high.As for fish, I've posted twice in this thread that "Fisherman" is a valid profession  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The Spiritwash is nearly 1/5 mile wide right outside Cuirlen; of course there's fishing! That said, fishing generally isn't as high-yield as either farming or hunting, so it's not a major source of food. Shipbuilding really hasn't occured to the people of Cuirlen, though (I forgot to mention that to you, Nightbreeze; I did notice you had it as a profession). Most of the fishing is done with nets from the shore.On the communal/individual nature of the farm plots: Farms are owned by individuals/families. At harvest time, most everyone pitches in to help gather up the harvests. There are multiple harvests throughout the year, as there are crops that are planted/harvested in different seasons. Generally, harvesters aren't directly paid, but harvest-weeks are usually festival weeks as well, with plenty of free food, potlucks, and so on, as well as general revelry.</blockquote>

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