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The Kurillian Table
Kurillia is a world of three great continents, each with distinct cultures, climates, and culinary traditions. Every recipe in this collection can be prepared in your own kitchen — but each dish carries the essence of the world it comes from: the cultural context, the festivals, the magic, and the memory.
“Food is the first magic — the alchemy that transforms earth, fire, water, and time into life itself.”
— Mariva Selthorn, Headmistress of Avarian Culinary Academy
This cookbook is a living document. A new nation or chapter is published every few days — subscribe below to follow the journey as the atlas fills in.
🌍 Part I — Tyrmire · The Heart of the Mortal Age
Chapter 1 · Tyrmire
Avaria
Arcane academies, noble tables, and the pursuit of excellence. Scholar’s bread, duelist’s salads, lantern cakes, and philosopher’s mulled wine.
8 recipes · ✅ Available now
Chapter 2 · Tyrmire
Castaria
Vineyard elegance, duelist courts, and the art of refinement. Savory tarts, roasted grapes, wine-braised ribs, and remembrance soup.
8 recipes · ✅ Available now
Chapter 3 · Tyrmire
Firanoran Confederation
Storm, steel, and steadfast bonds. Storm-charred steak, hearth stew, plainsrun flatbread, and spiced mead passed hand to hand.
8 recipes · ✅ Available now
Chapter 4 · Tyrmire
Etrium
The crossroads kitchen — harbour fish stew, stuffed grape leaves, spiced flatbread, braised lamb shanks, and spiced coffee from the café district.
8 recipes · ✅ Available now
Chapter 5 · Tyrmire
Tiressian Empire
Order, discipline, and the strength of structure. Legion field rations, imperial bread, Day of Oaths soup, and senate victory fowl.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 6 · Tyrmire
Odruain
Storm-lashed highlands where Drakhar and clans share a tense peace. Oath-feast stew, storm-season smoking, stone circle remembrance meal, and the High-Low Council platter.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 7 · Tyrmire
Uthax (Dvarin)
Stone remembers what flesh forgets. Hearthclan mushroom stew, Anvilmoot roast, Deepwake remembrance bread, Stonesong mead, and delver’s rations.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Part I · Tyrmire — 7 Chapters
Tyrmire is the largest and most politically complex continent — and its cuisine is equally diverse.
From the refined academy tables of Avaria to the bone-deep forges of Uthax, seven nations and one underground civilization define the Heart of the Mortal Age. New chapters drop every few days.
🌊 Part II — The Estwarin Sea · A Thousand Rival Banners
The glittering expanse between continents — hundreds of islands, maritime empires, and the ancient thalassocracy of the deep.
Chapter 8 · Estwarin Sea
The Estwarin League
Where trade is sacred and the sea is home. Dockside catch feasts, navigator’s pilaf, council banquet fish, and sea-marriage ring cakes.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 9 · Estwarin Sea
Shaalun’Morrah
Deep memory and sacred waters. Tide-caller’s ceremonial fish, abyssal shellfish stew, kelp remembrance wraps, steamed abalone, and tide cakes.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Part II · Estwarin Sea — 2 Chapters
Between the continents lies the most dynamic maritime culture in the world.
The pragmatic Lyfan trade network of Esmaria, and the ancient thalassocracy of the Shaalun who guard the deep — two nations, two utterly different relationships with the sea.
🌑 Part III — Embiad · Empire, Shadow, Zeal, and Ruin
The ancient western continent — where the Three Dark Gods hold the most sway, and where beauty, suffering, defiance, and shadow each have their own cuisine.
Chapter 10 · Embiad
Galaronel
Where beauty masks the hollow. Bureau-mandated presentation plates, forbidden resistance stew, midnight kitchen bread — and what the empire used to taste like before the Triumvirate took hold.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 11 · Embiad
Scaelia
Where faith became suffering. Penitent’s porridge, ash-day lentils, and the condemned’s last comfort — alongside the one feast where the faithful are briefly permitted joy.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 12 · Embiad
Edhegoth
Where mountains meet sky. Ridge-fire stew, gryphon rider’s trail mix, forest vigil soup — and the Binding Feast that celebrates a bond forged once in a lifetime.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 13 · Embiad
Umbrinel Kingdom
In shadows we sharpen. Moonlight consommé, shadow-garden salad, veil-tending cakes, and the Silent Masque delicacies that train a young Umbrinel’s composure.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Part III · Embiad — 4 Chapters
No continent’s cuisine reflects its politics more clearly than Embiad’s.
A corrupted empire that controls through beautiful food. A theocracy that treats pleasure as sin. A mountain kingdom that feeds itself with defiant honesty. A shadow court where every meal is a coded message.
☀️ Part IV — Zanjra · Desert Kingdoms, River Empires, Burning Philosophy
Where faith, discipline, and tradition are as essential as water — and where three very different answers to the same desert have produced three extraordinary cuisines.
Chapter 14 · Zanjra
Pashait
River kingdoms, caravan routes, and celestial spices. Monsoon pilaf, heron-lamp sweets, caravan lentil stew, saffron chicken, and honey-almond pastries.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 15 · Zanjra
The Empire of Uzma
Where law is written in stars and water is sacred. Astronomer’s night meal, desert patrol rations, Day of Edicts stew, constellation bread, and the oasis bounty platter.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 16 · Zanjra
Yunshan (Triune Concord)
Three peoples, one oath. Three Lantern Night hot pot, harmony dumplings, bamboo tea rice, Baegho warrior stew, and foxfire festival mochi.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
📖 Part V — Beyond Nations · The Full Picture
Street food, divine feast days, magical traditions, and the foods that belong to places rather than peoples.
Chapter 17 · Cross-Cultural
Street Foods of Kurillia
What the people actually eat. Avarian spellbread pockets, Castarian wine-glazed chestnuts, Pashait harbour skewers, Yunshan three-coin dumplings, and Galaroni gilt-sugar pastries.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 18 · All Continents
Divine Feast Days
The gods’ tables. Thirteen divine feast recipes — one for each active deity, from Aurethiel’s dawn bread to Zarkeneth’s death-vigil soup. Theology made edible.
13 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 19 · Academy & Guild
Magical Traditions
Where arcana meets the table. Academy commons stew, Aetherbrand focus biscuits, Runebinder’s ink-fast meal, ritual circle cakes, and thousand-day meditation soup.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
Chapter 20 · Place-Specific
Regional Delicacies
Where geography becomes gastronomy. Drakenwaald mushrooms, Crimson Harbour stew, Frostpeak survival rations, Vineyard Road cheese, and Shaalun Market breakfast.
5 recipes · 🔜 Coming soon
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20 chapters. 80+ recipes. A new nation every few days.
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