Basningia

Basningia [anglicization: /baz ˈnɪn dʒɪə/] is a small city that rests northeast of the Adamantine Mountains and in the southernmost reaches of the Brasen Horde in the Gontarine Highlands. The city is ruled by a desert sheikh who pays annual tribute to the Shakhumbla of the Brasen Horde. Basningia is a minor but celebrated site along the merchants route from the West to the far East, including to Sungo and it is the first site before one enters the Danzercouphtan Desert and other wastes of central Asdauria. For Aurician skybarge merchants, it is often the first placed stopped after they have left the frontier of the Aurician Empire by means of the town of Nahwa Luva en route along the famous Great Silk Highway.

Basningia Beer and Tribute

Main article: Basningia Beer

A Basningian bewery device, attached in its peculiar fashion to skysails. The sails drag and tug the device over the sands. Midjourney.

Basningia Beer possesses its own pecular texture and flavor which has become world-famous to beer connoisseurs and merchants of the Asdaurian frontier. The beer is brewed in little ships that are hoisted to skysails. The 'ships' do not actually rise aloft from the surface of the earth, but cause the beer while it is being brewed to be tugged about the surface of the semi-dunes of the land where Basningia rests. In ancient times, the sails were used to enable the Basningians to flee desert marauders with their other effects in skycraft, heading either for the deep Danzercouphtan Desert or into the Adamantine Mountains for refuge.

a Basningian brewer makes his rounds passing by a sailed raft with brewing devices inside. The gentle and peculiar tugs of the wind upon the contrivance are thought to give the beer its special flavor and texture unlike any else in the world. Midjourney.

Subject to the Shakhumbla of the Brasen Horde, Basningia must provide a tribute of its famous Basningia Beer to the cruel overlord every year or face dreadful repercussions. Any beer above the exacted tributed may be sold to merchants or kept for domestic use. The sheikh ruler of Basningia transports the beer to the great Shakhumbla in low-flying skybarges similar to those used by the Xsytes.

See Also

• Basningia Beer
• Brasen Horde
• Gontarine Highlands
• Great Silk Highway
• List of Spirits, Beers, and Wines of Asdar
• Nahwa Luva
• Paradeisius' Guide to the Shanjari Khamifate