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A pair of small (25-doglike hoofed grazers from Ashulla. While several different species exist planetwide and have a wide variety of fur patterning and horn shapes, the ones pictured here are common to Onaishehee, and are used in the 'civilized' Maldoon cities and towns there as a source of meat and wool.
Despite their mammalian appearance, they're actually egglayers, digging shallow nests in loose sandy areas near seashores or river banks to keep them warm, and guard them from predators until they hatch. Young are fed from regurgitated grazed materials and berries stored in a small crop-like structure in back of their mouths. Jesani eggs are never laid unfertilized, and are only edible either when the embryo is about to hatch, or, if earlier, treated with various culinary processes that causes the yolk and embryo to
ferment and somewhat liquefy.
In Celshear lands, Ashurnal Jesani are kept in underground pens, and sometimes taken along long desert journeys when the Dry Maldoon wish to trade with cities. Two to three Tumsh, a form of parasitic worm, are then allowed to infest the Ashurnal Jesani. In a few days, the worms begin to produce 4-10 Tumsh Berries each, clusters of blackberry like eggs that extrude through the Jesani's flesh, incubating a day or so before hatching and either dropping off, or reinfecting the host. The Maldoon collect these, controlling the spread of the parasite, which left unchecked would destroy their livestock. These 'berries' are considered highly nutritive, and are used as a form of travel rations by these Maldoon, who also consider them delicacies.
These eggs are killed, drowned in fermented Gorat Gora'a milk, and then coated in an edible plant syrup that hardens like a shellac, making them crunchy and preserved for sale or use on long journeys.
Despite their mammalian appearance, they're actually egglayers, digging shallow nests in loose sandy areas near seashores or river banks to keep them warm, and guard them from predators until they hatch. Young are fed from regurgitated grazed materials and berries stored in a small crop-like structure in back of their mouths. Jesani eggs are never laid unfertilized, and are only edible either when the embryo is about to hatch, or, if earlier, treated with various culinary processes that causes the yolk and embryo to
ferment and somewhat liquefy.
In Celshear lands, Ashurnal Jesani are kept in underground pens, and sometimes taken along long desert journeys when the Dry Maldoon wish to trade with cities. Two to three Tumsh, a form of parasitic worm, are then allowed to infest the Ashurnal Jesani. In a few days, the worms begin to produce 4-10 Tumsh Berries each, clusters of blackberry like eggs that extrude through the Jesani's flesh, incubating a day or so before hatching and either dropping off, or reinfecting the host. The Maldoon collect these, controlling the spread of the parasite, which left unchecked would destroy their livestock. These 'berries' are considered highly nutritive, and are used as a form of travel rations by these Maldoon, who also consider them delicacies.
These eggs are killed, drowned in fermented Gorat Gora'a milk, and then coated in an edible plant syrup that hardens like a shellac, making them crunchy and preserved for sale or use on long journeys.
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