Beasts of Burden Chapter 34: The Domesticated Svirfel Cave Sheep in a book by Mester Dominae Lurius I of Lanifoel, completed in 1140ES.
The Svirfel is considered the most important creature by the svirfneblin and they love all the products made from all parts of this cave dwelling relative of the Common Sheep.
Svirfel Milk, this milk is nutritious and svirfneblin use this milk for all their basic food items, svirfel cheese and svirfel milk butter even have a more broad base and is considered a executive delicacy in Lanifoel, and the most popular place to snack on Svirfel Cheese, drink some fresh svirfel milk or have svirfel butter toast is at Dlimsurl & Nefblus' Ildvann & Droger.
Another major use for svirfel milk butter, is in svirfelblish soap, made from pure svirfel butter, for many me included the svirfelblish soap smells quite badly, though it actually is a decent soap, that washes of even the worst grease and grime. Svirfneblins say the soap has a lovely aroma but most would agree it smells like fish. Outside of the known svirfneblin communities few buy and use svirfelblish soap with the exception of the scrappia gnomes, which loves it and import large quantities to their surface settlements for their daily use.
The wool from the svirfel sheep is quite similar to wool from the common surface sheep, and is used in the same way. Svirfneblins are known to blend the wool with rockwool for their clothes.
Svirfel leather is of high quality and it is said the best parchment can be made from the skin of the svirfel.
Svirfel veal, this is truly a tasty meat, though beware the svirfneblin like it salty, so unless one have a true salt tooth, one better have someone else than a svirfneblin or gnome prepare the meat.
Svirfel blood, this might be rather disgusting to many as the still warm blood of a newly slaughtered svirfel are commonly used as a refreshing drink by the svirfneblin, and the blood does not spoil for months. Svirfel blood is also used to make svirfelwine, which sometime is referred to as bloodwine by surface dwellers. Some say vampires find this non-humanoid blood based wine to be even better than the blood of an elf. Though if this is rumors or true I could not say. The most secretive use of Svirfel Blood is in prepared according to the ancient and secret recipie for Svirel Blood Powder, this powder is usually produced by the town Salt Druids, the blood powder is treasured by both magic user, preasts and alchemists all over Thalmariea. Some say this secretive Blood Powder trade is even one of the single most valuable export from Svirfneblin communities.
Svirfel bone, now the bone of svirfel is harder than most bone, and primitive svirfneblish cave writings show how the early gnomes of the deep used the svirfel bones as clubs of weapons, spiked with shards of crystal rock. Svirfel bone is also used to make Bone flour, which is used in svirfeblish pastries, meals and usually is a major ingredient in their cooking.
Svirfel manure, now this is one horrible smelling natural substance to use, but it is also the best one can find for myceliac agriculture of the deep, and also works wonders when applied to anything of the real of plant to grow, treants have even known to uproot themselves and run into a frenzy to get some svirfel manure. Drow are allergic to svirfel and hate the scent of Svirfel and would go great length to avoid them and especially the foul smelling svirfel manure. Some svirfneblins even make their own drow slaying poison from the manure. Though most of them Simply use it to build a Drow safe barrier, which at best keep the drow away and at worst keep them away long enough while they apply safe to drow tactics for handling this most stenched form of fortifications.
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