"We could have called it anything, so why did we just mash two words together like children? Renslight? Safewheat? There are so many other options!"
The Crop is the Cure
At some point in the past decade,
Grara has faced an issue with
rensfire, a disease inflicted upon
wheat. When it is discovered, entire fields must be razed to the ground because it not only discolors the
wheat but is almost always lethal when ingested, even after it has been ground into flour - at which point it can't be seen.
Some farmers began growing additional
barley because it is immune to
rensfire. At first, as if by mistake, the
wheat in one field near
barley became a little different - the first wheatley.
Wheatley, the Greener Wheat
The golden fields of the
Graran countryside are slowly being replaced by the much safer green fields of wheatley. The crop has had additional - unexpected - advantages. While it does not grow as quick as
barley, it inherited some of that precociousness and matures quicker than its golden relative.
It also has more kernals than
wheat which has several alternating around the tip of the plant. Wheatley instead has many kernals arranged in three neat columns at the top of the plant.
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Naming Things
Why certain things get named in the ways that they do is truly a mystery. The name wheatley is thought by some as to be particularly unimaginitive. As the solution to
rensfire it could have had a name related to that.
A quick look at any map will reveal a wide variety of naming schemes.
Darapur just means big city by the river while
Wrendat was just a completely made up word that now is associated with big rocks.
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