The Espovon catch up post
After the completion of the blacksmithing contest Espovon has created and discovered new way to manipulate steel, one thing that extremely pleased the king was discovering that certain heats when tempered the steel would change to beautiful shades of blue, purple or a copper colour. In sight of this more decorative swords
begin to pop up showing these techniques on them.
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Espovons military has adapted a medium sized rectangular shield rather than the traditional round shield, they feature a "X" mark on them made out of steel to band together the wood and hide.
Military advisers have suggested steel tips for their arrows instead of stone ones to generals.
Soldiers begin to wear cravats to signify their pride in the country, the majority of soldiers wear Red cravats while officers wear black cravats
Upon hearing about plague the capital of Espovon begins to reorganize and separate supplies in storages that are clean and dry, port villages are ordered to do a light inspection of ships and if the disease escalates from another country enact quarantines.
Some herbal shops have popped up in the main towns of Espovon, their natural remedies of honey and other herbs seem to help with a lot of things such as the common flu.
In addition to the new hot commodity of honey, a farmer has discovered a way to easily collect bee honey with smoke after he found them acting drowsy when he had lit a fire nearby to clear some dead shrubs, hes shared this with other farmers in the area and they've begun to make small honey apiaries. However its noticed that the bees seem to die off if you take too much honey from the hive at a time, The farmers attempt to use moderation as they get a feel for the amount of honey they produce in a week.
Agriculture advisers are looking for a way to provide water for crops when the season is too dry and the ocean doesn't provide, perhaps some sort of man made river?
Impressive stone arches form at the gates of Espovons capital, upon seeing this other main towns surrounding the area begin to also create elaborate entrances to the villages.
More trade routes are being cleared in the countryside to improve internal trade to the capital and north Island.
The navy is researching more effective sail designs for long voyages, in addition better hull designs ship with maybe steel bow caps to prevent damage from rocks.
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