write about the settlement of a town that was wiped out and rebuilt
WIPED OUT
small settlement beginning settlement, searched and found a place to live. Dryads uprooted themselves and decided to find a new area.
why? not having enough of a base in the soil, too acidic (due to minerals)
place this area near the mines in the country of Sestia
this was only allowed due to the tree they were - was a type that can retain water over distances, possibly a type of scraggly pine trees.
They move to a new area, get settled, but they don't know the good and bad. Good, the soil is perfect for them, bad, there's a type of bark-eating beetle that lives in the area. The beetle is surprised by this new food source and overeats, procreates, and has a jolly good time and kills the dryads. And, they end up exploding in population, but then going back to the much smaller population that they were before the new food came in.
Dryads moved with other tree/flower/forest folx.
The Dryads are wiped out by beetles and the town is barely surviving. To find enough food for them since they can no longer depend on the dryads, they start harvesting the new food that they find nearby. Problem is, some of the food is poisonous to the people there, they eat it, and they die. [watercress]
REBUILT
minerals are not the resource people have gone for, nor trees. there is a creature in the river that is valued
why? sell / use selling scales / selling flesh / - fish have small pockets on the underneath of their bellies. The pockets will collect grains of irritation, and as the fish matures, the irritation is made into a pearl. Different colors by age of the fish, what created the irritation, biochemical of the fish also help with colouring.
Pearls are used in fashion but also in charms/magic chants.
different colours are used for different charms.
Now the area is rebuilt into a fish-farming center.
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