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Figuring Out What Amber Ate

posted by Ginger at 03:28 PM, June 09, 2004 | Filed under : Traveller's Guide to Amber | Comments and Followups

I’ve been reading up on food history in the last few months (Cod, Salt, and now Caviar), and I’m beginning to see the outlines of how Amber fed itself during the Sundering. You guys ate a lot of fish and fish-derivative products, especially poor Garrett.

One of the problems Amber is going to have in the next few years—for several values of few—is that they probably have fished out the breeding stock of a lot of different kinds of fish much further out than before. I suspect the harbor was long since fished out, but now the whole coast is getting fished out, as far as the boats go from Amber. Similarly, there aren’t a lot of game animals left anywhere near Amber or Garnath, or much to the north, either. The near regions of Arden have been pretty heavily poached too.

Part of Amber’s problem is that without food imports, it’s been destroying its future to supply its present.

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3 Comments

Paul
Jun 10, 2004 6:35 AM

This is why I love this game.

Few GMs in an Amber campaign would even care about the ecological consequences, being content with all of the other disasters and their after-effects to throw at the players.

Bravo.

Steve
Jun 10, 2004 3:08 PM

Well surely this is all nonsense. If Amber was in such a state, you'd expect it to be echoed all over shadow, including Earth.

Um...this is a bad argument, isn't it?

Jeff Dougan
Jun 15, 2004 11:32 AM

OTOH, if Ossian were aware of any of this, it might have given him some clout in his recent discussion with Random.

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