Lexicon:Modern/Kelrei

Kelrei
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈkel.ɾeɪ/
Part of speech	Noun
Etymology	from Middle kelrē, from Proto kelri
Related words	Livrtei, Moeka, Endwr

Kelrei — the cellar mushroom. The kinds that will grow indoors, on spent straw and stable sweepings, in the dark.

Notes

It has none of the flavor of good Moeka and everybody says so, and it is eaten anyway, because in Endwr it is the only thing on a northern table that was growing that morning. Everything else has been in a cellar since Gaedhr. The ideal crop for a walled city. It wants no field, no sun, and nothing but what the stables were going to throw out, which in a place where every protected acre is already spoken for is worth a great deal. Grown in undercrofts everywhere and most extensively in Forgegate, where the guilds treat it as a trade like any other and have firm opinions about substrate.