Editing Thousand Cities:South (section)

===Oda Sul===
:The salt fields of Oda Sul provide great wealth to the Sul empire, although this wealth seldom reaches those who harvest it. Oda Sul is Creation’s greatest purchasers of slaves, using them to gather evaporated salt from the steppes.

:Each year, the Calibration Tide wells up over the lowlands, and villages are relocated to high ground in its path. As the water recedes, it is trapped in tiered paddies but into the hillsides, where it evaporates in the sunlight. The highest tiers are harvested first, and the embankments rebuilt for the coming year.

:The lowest levels dry out more slowly, producing intricate crystal patterns. On every seventh year, the harvesters place a garland of roses and poppies into the deepest pool, where they are covered in a layer of salt. These ‘Flowers of Sul’ are considered delicacies, each selling for the price of a hundred slaves. Even handling the delicate flowers without the permission of the Rajahs is punishable by death.