Five Wild Stories about Cheona Towers

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The people from the fallen city of Bregos nurtured a culture of making use of every resource and not letting anything go to waste.
A clear example of this was their cuisine, which made use of every edible part of every creature and plant, and had inventive ways of giving new life to leftover dishes.
This tradition was known as the "Chenoa Towers", a name they used for any dish they invented in the moment with the available leftovers, regardless of ingredientes or result: Salads with cold meat cut in little cubes, sauteed pasta with vegetables, small pies or weird, unidentifiable but delicious sauces with herbs were some common options.
The origin of the name is uncertain, and Breguine parents liked to make up wild stories when their children asked about it.
Below are five of the most common explanations, all of which are apocryphal.

Chenoa the Wanderer

A weary traveller somehow made his way to the unreachable city of Bregos. He was a Merthiornite man that had been escaping from an ill-meaning pursuit. Pirates? Tetsus? The law? he wouldn't say.
He lost the chasers a long while back, but then become lost in the mountains until he saw towers in the distance and made his way to them, hunting wild creatures and foraging for weeks, until he realised the "towers" were a city at the mountaintops.
He managed to reach Bregos and asked for refuge and food to the surprised locals who were untrusting but eventually received him and gave him a job in the tavern. There was it that Chenoa the Wanderer made his fame combining dishes in spectacular new ways, and taught the tender some secret ingredients he learned from his travel.

The dishes and secrets were passed into the population who would name this style of remixing after the towers he thought he saw.

Chenoa, the Tower Guard

The Sieged Towers

Honoring the great Cheona

Back when the City of Bregos was merely a group of huts in the middle of the wilderness, a chef arose among the few families that formed the new settlement: Chenoa was a resourceful woman with a special interest for flavour exploration, and she was insistant that a zero waste approach to life was paramount to their survival in their remote new home.
Chenoa taught the new nation how to forage, scavenge and make use of ingredients, techniques and combinations that were unheard of in the rest of the island and the first people of Bregos attributed their survival to her.
"But mum, why Towers?"
Well, she liked to make towers of ingredients, son.

The two towers dish

In this version of the story, the Chenoa Towers themselves were actual towers somewhere in the Haan Archipelago. The towers fell after a destructive earthquake

Veceron by Naelin

Related Ethnicities

• Breguine

Related Locations

• Bregos