On Radiant Energy and food.
So. People grow crops for food with Radiant Energy, ‘outside’ the city and “life in the city depends upon
these farms.”
Nobles have private Radiant Energy gardens of their own, explicitly to supplement their diets – “the living light allows growing gardens of fresh fruit and vegetables inside the mansion’s security. “
At the same time, “Enjoy the radiant plants and animals, but do not eat them. Radiant poisoning is serious.”
So, uh, what gives? I get the very vague impression that directly infusing biomatter with radiance to make it glow in a fancy manner and putting a lamp near some plants to mimic a sun are two different techniques, but the book confuses the issue, discusses both at the same time and doesn’t make any distinctions. It needs to be clarified.
I think the idea is you make a radiant plant, which grows and gives off light but is not edible, and that light allows non-radiant plants to thrive.
I did not get that impression at all.
The more the reason to elaborate on this, I suppose.
“The wealthy tend to cultivate radiant gardens not just for the range of beautiful plants, but also because the light from those plants replaces sunlight and allows other plants nearby to flower and bear fruit. The light is dimmer, but always glowing.”
I respectfully disagree. I think it’s pretty clearly spelled out in “What is there to eat in Duskvol”, p246
I’m with Parker, for what that’s worth. It seemed pretty clear to me too. What I find interesting is that in Actual Plays, Lord Harper (as I’ve decided to call him) has also described radiant energy /lamps/, but the text seemed to omit these.
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It’s an old habit. I always used lamps originally, then Andrew wrote the essay and created the radiant energy plants later.