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Finkfru

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Finkfru

 

The oldest city built by Low-Elves. In fact, a few short years after its erection was complete, Finkfru also became the city with the highest median age of any city on the face of Battal. It has been observed that young Low-Elves almost always live in Lol'thoriun, while Finkfru is inhabited almost entirely by the the elderly.

 

Finkfru also happens to be the only city in Battal where the beverage Dragonapple wine is produced. This wine is highly sought-after due to its remarkable flavor, which (according to Mother Nancy's Fancy Cookbook, which lists the ingredients but provides no explanation of the aging process) it obtains through a poorly-understood method known as Thrice-Aging. Thus, the Low-Elves have a monopoly on the supply of Dragonapple wine, which would be a good deal more expensive if the Low-Elves remembered this fact with greater frequency.

 

Members of the Low Elf Advancement Society make up most of the non-elven population of Finkfru. As a general rule, they steal the inventions of their wiser, more philosophical, more inventive masters and make their way back into greater Battal to make a fortune on "their" ideas.

 

It is interesting that an entire city should be reduced to such generalizations--old people and wine--but in fact The Great Northern Low Elf Wars were fought when the Men of the Covenant demanded to know the secret of Thrice-Aging. Somewhat improbably, most of the Low-Elves of Finkfru claimed they didn't know or had, characteristically, forgotten. But this couldn't possibly be true, as vast quantities of wine continued to flow from the city. Upon hearing that their elders were being threatened, the denizens of Lol'thoriun reacted with a thousand years of bloodshed.

 

Much, much later, Francis Hildaen wanders through Finkfru and innocently suggests that, instead of selling all their Dragonapple wine for unreasonably low prices, the Low-Elves ought to enjoy it for themselves. The resulting mayhem would come to be known as the Incident at Finkfru and, in order to prevent such chaos from ever again descending on their forgetful elders, the kindly and mildly less-forgetful inhabitants of Lol'thoriun erected a memorial statue at the site where the incident took place.

 

A small amount of Fan Fiction has grown up around the idea that elderly people do not move to Finkfru, but that Low-Elves who enter Finfru in fact become old--and that the same happens to the Dragonapple juice that arrives regularly from Lol'thoriun. Nothing official has yet been released on the matter, however. Unsurprisingly, most fan fiction referencing Finfru and Dragonapple wine is less interested in the beverage's origins than its intoxicating effects.

 

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