Customs - Disnator

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Customs - Disnator

Postby blatob » Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:50 am

As winters near and the first snow falls on frost bitten earth, mists rising from the rivers and plains mix with steam given off by hundreds of scalding cauldrons in cities and villages, with screams of pigs in their thousands echoing in the otherwise serene morning. Disnator, or "pig's wake" is a centuries-long tradition, especially revered in northern Impiltur. Each year, thousands of animals meet their end during this period and are being converted into hams, ribs, bacon and miles and miles of sausages seasoned with liberal amounts of garlic that are taken to smoking. These are intended to last all the way into the next fall season.

Communities and families gather together, enjoying fresh melted pork rinds and ale; men and women exchange stories while they gut the pigs hanged on great iron hooks, children fighting over succulent pieces of poached pigs' brain, and there is even time for some drinking contests. The most talked-about contest is the pig-butchering competition held annually in Laviguer, a small mining town at the foot of the eastern Earthspurs. Last year champion is Yetszeslav Kamzhinsky, 14 year old butcher's apprentice who managed to kill seven two hundred-pound pigs in one passing of the clock (ooc note: one minute), by jumping on the animals and stabbing directly in the jugular. A local surgeon reportedly said, that the boy "shows promise".

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