Meadia

Meadia is a raft town of the Aquatic Realm of Felnós. The town has a religious tie to the Mead Fish a, large aquatic species that hails from the land of Eldham.

The Mead Fish
Years ago when the land of Rodinnbrok in Eldham still lay above the waves a certain fish inhabited the “waters” of the River of Mead. This creature was known as the Mead Fish. Famous for its sweet flesh and golden shine the fish’s numbers started to dwindle as the inhabitants started to catch them in great numbers. A few sanctuaries opened along the banks of the River of Mead including the village of Felis who prided themselves on their Mead-making practices. After Rodinnbrok fell into the ocean and with it their sanctuaries, the fish were nowhere to be seen many believed them to be extinct until a few years after the sinking when a fisherman off the coast of Azrielus, a city on the northern coast of the Sea of Wine and Mead saw a large creature in the waters. The fisherman quickly alerted the scholars of the Library of Azrielus who went to investigate. What they found surprised them as what they saw resembled the Mead Fish of long past which they had only read about except for one difference, they were ten times the size. Current beliefs were that due to the expanded space the Mead Fish had over time the fish found it evolutionarily helpful to grow in size. Years after the sinking of Rodinnbrok, the Giant Mead Fish have traveled far and wide even to the new lands of Abexilias.

Qualities
Mead Fish have the ability to expel a sweet aroma that changes the quality of water and causes many people to enter an entranced state. This state of being is often sought after by those who have entered it before. The aroma characterizes most of the Meadians though some of the people born surrounded by Mead Fish feel a lesser affect.

Culture
Over the years these fish have been the source of Meadian culture. The Medians are tribes of boat-faring people who live on boats and rafts following their selected school of Giant Mead Fish. Some tribes even worship the fish and believe that somewhere out there in the world is a Mead Fish even larger that acts as an instinctual king for the rest of the Mead Fish. Recently entered this world’s oceans is a tribe led by Estudios of Felis, now Estudios of Meadia, who has sworn to safeguard the Mead Fish.