Lexicon:Modern/Eledh

Eledh
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈɛ.lɛð/
Part of speech	Noun
Etymology	from Yoruba ẹlẹ́dẹ̀ (pig), evolved through CLT
Related words	chichei, Graesa, Kelrei

Eledh — the waste-eating food animal. Kept in every working district in the Known World.

Notes

Denser than one expects and covered in coarse bristly hair thick enough to let it live outdoors in cold that would kill a softer animal. It eats anything organic — scraps, spoiled grain, vegetable waste, fallen fruit, a good deal that is not food at all — and turns it into meat in months rather than years. Within city walls it does a second job nobody assigns it: it eats the organic waste that would otherwise rot in the streets. Urban Eledh-keeping is common in every working district and the smell is a recognized feature of them. Smoked, salted and cured, the meat keeps for months and no caravan or ship provisions without it. Engineered pre-Fall for waste conversion and disease resistance.