Redgriss, one of the most important ingredients in Jeupou soap
During my third expedition to The Ganathor Swamp, I traveled upstream the Ismake River until I reach a land referred to as the Land of Ilix, unlike any other land of barbarians that I have encountered so far in The Ganathor Swamp, these smells of clean flowers.
After bartering for information I soon found their secret to lay in their obsessive use of what they call Jeupou Soap, this product which I found out after further inquires is made from a unique blend of numerous ingredients from the domesticated Jeupou, or as the locals call it their River Horse. The Soap is actually made out of a blend of melted Jeupou fat, Pink Jeupou Milk Butter, Graagriss, Redgriss, Salt, Leaves, Flowers, Saps or Bark from the Local Swamp and something called Ruirnudrurish, a family clan of usually make two blocks on the once a month day of Jeupou, or more if their spirits has been followed by darkness the passed month.
Jeupou Soap feels and smells so marvelous, and the local barbarians use it as part of their technique for cleaning hides, leathers and pelts as well as cleaning their herds of Jeupou. I also found out that among the Green Dragon Tribe it is custom to ritually cleanse themselves using Jeupou Soap two times a day. And even more so if something unclean have happens, The Tribe believes that using Jeupou Soap is the only way to wash of the evils, and appease their ancestors spirits if they done something taboo, unclean or even feel followed by bad luck, bad omens, disease or had a close family member passed over to the spirit world. One block of Jeupou Soap last four 45 day months or half a year for one Greendragon tribesman and from what I was able to find out one setting of Jeupou Soap makes two blocks. Jeupou Soap is so important to the tribes that they set aside a whole day to the ritual of making of Jeupou Soap, a sacred ritual that no outsider is allowed to witness, and according to the village elders anyone that does would have to be given to Ilix.
The soap itself is so important to the tribes of Ilix that one could even consider it to be a fairly universal currency, though it is not nearly as highly valued in the less cultivated tribes outside of Ilix.
I currently use Jeupou Soap myself and found one block to last me one full year. Below is a simple list of what you can barter to get yourself one or more blocks of Jeupou Soap. Even tribes outside of Ilix, find the soap to be valuable for washing hides and leathers as part of curing them for armor.
Jeupou Soap is often used in combination with spongeberry gourds, the sponge like songeberry gourds are used to scrub with and softens when wet with soap and water.
- Food for a family of 9 for one day is the cost for one block
- Common Animal Pelts would each bring you between two and six blocks
- Weeks hard labor (ranging from tending the Jeupou herd, carpentry, pottery cooking and so on)
- One unit of Gold = One block
- Ten units of Silver = One block
- Ten units of Copper = One block
- One Steel Dagger = Ten blocks
- Block of Swamp Iron = Five block
- Ten blocks of Peat = One block
- Leather sack of Honey = One block
- Leather sack of Sugar = One block
- Leather sack of Nuts = One block
- Fifteen empty Leather Sacks = One block
- Five Leather sacks of Raupou = One block
- Ten Urtica sacks of Duckweed = One block
- One Urtica sack of Gammey = One block
- One Urtica sack of Dried Lechcci = One block
- One Urtica sack of Swamp Licorice Root = One block
- One Urtica sack of Lotus = One block
- Two Urtica sacks of Waiawi Leaves = One block
- One Urtica sack of Waiawi Berries = One block
- One Urtica sack of Waiawi Seeds = One block
- One Urtica sack of Waiawi Bark = One block
- One Jug of Waiawi Blossoms = One block
- One Waiawi Wood Long Bow = One block
- One Leather Sack of Red Flamingo Berries = One block
- One Leather Sack of Sweet Swamp Berries = One block
- One Leather Sack of Blue Swamp Berries = One block
- Five Leather sacks of Rice = One block
- One Arm of Bananas = One block
- One Large Basket of 40 Jottbair (Mutton-Berry) = One block
- Ten Leather sacks of Salt = One block
- One Jug of Graagriss = One block
- One Jug of Ruirnudrurish = One block
- One Graaval Ivory Lance = 20 blocks
- One Graaval = 100 blocks
- 124 Duck Eggs = One block
- 30 Live Ducks = One block
- 1 Trained Duckdog = 20 blocks
- 1 untrained Duckdog puppy = 5 blocks
- 1 Trained Swampdog = 20 blocks
- 1 untrained Swampdog puppy = 5 blocks
- Ten Urtica sacks of Duck Feathers = One block
- Five Urtica sacks of Ressalbe Algae = One block
- One case of 18 Spongeberry Gourds = One block
- One Live Jeupou = Twenty blocks
- One set of cured Jeupou Hide = Ten blocks
- Five blocks of Pink Jeupou Cheese = One block
- Five blocks of Pink Jeupou Butter = One block
- Four large Jeupou Teeth = One block
- 32 small Jeupou Teeth = One block
- 287 Jugs of Jeupou Darah = One block
- 400 Simple Clay Pottery Jugs = One block
- 450 Simple Clay Pottery Drinking Mugs = One block
- Meat from one Jeupou = Three blocks
- Bones from one Jeupou = One block
- Organs from one Jeupou = One block
- 10 days of Redgriss = 10 mugs of Redgriss = One block
- 3 Jugs of Raw Jeupou Milk = One block
- 2 Jugs of Lean Jeupou Milk = One block
- 50 yards of Urtica Rope = One block
- 75 yards of Banana Rope = One block
- 50 Banana leaf baskets = One block
- Two baskets of Ganathor Apples = One block
- One Black Pearl = One block
- Five White Pearls = Two Jeupou Soaps
- One Treskeh Wood Token = Five blocks
- One Bennieh Bone Amulet = Fifteen blocks
- One Messieh Bronze Charm = Forty blocks
- One Jerneh Hammered Iron Talisman = 100 blocks
- One Jerneh Steel Talisman = 250 blocks
Bear in mind that before you enter or leave the Land of Ilex you would have to pay a fee of safe passage, also anything you find, fetch, fish, hunt, gather, make or eat are also counted to how much you need to fee in order to not anger the ancestral spirits of the land. The more lavish you are in your gifts back to the land the safer your travel would be according to the locals.
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