Lexicon:Modern/Aruna

Aruna
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/a.ˈɾu.na/
Part of speech	Noun
Etymology	Eldershore substrate; resists CRT sound change
Related words	Spicaen, Zhael, Spicaith, Loeng Vaeg

Aruna — the tropical spices of Eldershore. The most valuable cargo by weight in the Known World.

Notes

A class rather than a single plant, comprising perhaps a dozen aromatics that will grow nowhere but in Eldershore’s heat and wet. Every attempt to raise them further north has failed, and the failures are well documented; the Academy holds the matter settled. Aruna is light, does not spoil, and is wanted everywhere, which makes it the perfect cargo and much of the reason the Long Reach is sailed at all. A single hold of it may be worth more than the vessel carrying it, and it is insured separately as a matter of course. It is also the cargo Iron Coves crews look for first. Eldershore substrate; the word resisted the sound changes that reshaped the tongue around it, as the older Eldershore trade words often did.