The Fields

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Wide tracts of agricultural land on the city's eastern side, carved from the edge of the Weald where the forest thins enough to permit cultivation. The Fields grow Nod's native crops under arcane lights and stranger methods of fertilization, producing food that is available nowhere else and that constitutes a significant portion of the city's caloric supply. What cannot be grown is imported from Earth or other Domains through the Merchants Guild, but the Fields provide the staples. The work is hard, the pay is poor, and the workers are predominantly human and Skulk, with a scattering of Theriae whose lineages incline toward patience and manual labor. The eastern edge of the Fields borders the Weald directly, and the forest has a tendency to reclaim cleared land if the workers stop pushing it back.