"I'm sorry, you just said "charmed cheese", didn't you?"
"Yes."
"What?"
"It's a charmed cheese, I don't know what else to tell you."
"YOU CAN START WITH EXPLAINING WHY A CHEESE IS CHARMED?!"— Unknown person and another unknown, but frantically confused, person
Un-brie-lievable
Told to children in the dead of night whilst sitting around a campfire, as well as when presented with their first cheese tray at a family gathering, the Charmed Cheese Fable is well-known in the hearts of all across the Eight Lands. While many have a good chuckle at the tale, others will swear by its mystical truth.
The tale itself is rather simple; that one day
Íslen decided to throw a party to last a whole year, and that each piece of food for the gods was enchanted in some form or another. Drinks would have illusory dolphins swimming across their surface, or create bubbles of intense flavours that float in the air until one pops them, and the food would cause ones voice to change pitch, giggle uncontrollably, or even change hair colour. Each delicacy had a unique enchantment placed upon it, and one of those was a wheel of cheese enchanted to make the eaters voice become irresistible to those who hear it, entrancing them. However, that cheese was dropped and never found, eventually making its way to the world of mortals.
Wheels of Abondance
The simple joy of the tale is what keeps it surviving over the many years it has been told, and everyone who hears it swears by different enchantments when they're being told, often leading to various people chiming in with their own believed enchantments.
Of course, no enchanted wheel of cheese has ever been found, though many fakes have been created in attempts to fool people. One infamous attempt of cheese forgery included having the words "this cheese is enchanted" written in
magemarks, which created a, presumably unintentional, effect of the cheese wheel not only glowing but having tiny illusory cheeses floating around it in spectacular fashion.
Unfortunately, no one is quite sure where the infamous forgery has ended up, and attempts to recreate it have all resulted in mysterious failure.
Cheeeeeeeese. I love the idea of a cheese wheel with tiny illusory cheeses floating around it. I don't even care that it's a forgery.
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Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeese.