Myrrowskin is a flexible, luxury material made by tanning and processing the skins of the
Myrrow. times the elasticity of high quality calfskin. It has an incredibly fine grain, and despite being more delicate and less durable than calfskin or other leathers, myrrowskin is particularly prized because of its unmatched softness, flexibility and stretch. A well treated myrrowskin can be up to 2-3 times as elastic as a calfskin. Myrrow pup skins, with their thick fluffy hair attached, can sell for double an adult skin, and are sought after for their warmth.
Myrrowskin is incredibly expensive, and becomes more expensive by the year, as myrrow numbers begin to dwindle and more and more countries put protections in place to prevent hunting.
Uses in Culture
Myrrowskin is commonly used in both high-end fashion as a display of status, as well as cultural dress, due to the association of the myrrow to the God of the Sea, Trichor. The people of South Osmen cherish myrrow and their pelts, and it is a staple piece of clothing for babies and young children, due to the garment's ability to move and bend with the growing child. Osmeni people use the skins in a lot of religious and cultural clothing, and it remains important to their culrute.
Many sea elf cultures also use myrrowskin as a textile, processed with special mineral rubs and dried on shore.
In Sedia, the skin is less common, but highly prized among worksmen who use the flexible material in craft. It is ideal for work clothes, to bind machine parts and to stretch and pull moving parts of mechanisms.
In Virias, myrrowskin from myrrow pups, called
achtilar (meaning "fur of the ocean" in common)
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