Lexicon:Modern/Nywich

Nywich
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈnwɪtʃ/
Part of speech	Noun
Etymology	from middle CRT nuwīchē, from Proto nuwik
Related words	Nyona, Skoerd, Aeval, Angwyr, Paem

Nywich — the hive insect on which all cultivation depends. Kept in managed hives in every agricultural ring in the world.

Notes

Half again the size of what one might expect, broad-bodied, calm, and hardy across every climate from Stormharbor’s cold to Eldershore’s heat. It makes Nyona. Without it the orchards, the vines, the Paem and most of the food crops do not set, which makes it arguably the most economically essential creature in the world after the Dorath and certainly the least considered. Stormharbor has the most developed keeping tradition, since Nyona is its only practical sweetener and Skoerd rests on it entirely. Forgegate’s clockmakers have built hive monitoring in brass and glass with clockwork ventilation. Eldershore’s tropical varieties produce continuously rather than seasonally. Shining Reach has made a decorative motif of it. The insect appears worked into ironwork, plaster and civic ornament across the city, generally read as a figure of industry and common order. The convention is old and nobody there can say when it began. Engineered pre-fall for pollination efficiency, yield and temperament.