#short because im very busy

While digging for informations about Tyvia I found some lore of the best wine in the Empire of the Isles, mostly known from the High Overseer Campbell mission („Will you have wine? It’s a Tyvian red”).

The Tyvian Red is a luxurious wine with mild, elegant sweetness, created from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The process is similiar to ice wine (Eiswein), produced in Germany, Canada and even Siberia (Tyvia jest heavily based on Russia).

Tyvia is an island of snow and cold, with vineyards inhabiting the rare plots of fertile land to the southern coasts. Only very few vintners possess the knowledge how to keep the grapes alive against the harsh weather, and even after that the harvest can be easily ruined:

• if a freeze does not come quickly enough, the grapes may rot or be be lost to wild animals and dropped fruit,
• if the freeze is too severe, no juice can be extracted.

This makes the Tyvian Red a very expensive wine, mostly enjoyed by aristocrats and connoisseurs with enormous purses.

Thinking more about it, the production of this wine is also morally questionable and might be the source of conflict in a future. While Tyvians have to rely on imports of agricultural goods, the rare fertile soil is wasted on alcohol for riches. So far Morley was important food source for the rest of the Empire, but a prophecy of Blind Sisters in D2 and DOTO mentioned a famine caused by a blight, starting from the fields east of Potterstead in Gristol. With growing demand for imported food in the southern part of the Empire, prices in Tyvia might skyrocket.