Jia

Jia is a herbal infusion made from the jia vine, consumed throughout the Civilised World. Jia is almost always served hot as a stimulant drink, said to have a cool, refreshing tingling sensation on the tongue.

Jia vines are virid parasitic or symbiotic plants native to the western slopes of the Siltorn Hills in the province of Morritar, or Old Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrlanguagelanguagelanguage. The vines have long thin leaves with characteristic coloured veins. Jia require particular conditions to thrive: mature viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. woodland that isn't too dense, on western-facing slopes at a sufficient elevation to be cool at night but a sufficient latitude to get a lot of sun. Consequently the main cultivation areas for jia are Morritar, the Siltorn Hills, the foothills of the Dun Jaen mountains in Cavann, and the Saloyan Hills of northern Harthera. With deforestation of virid areas in Ororr, nations in Munatan have recently begun jia exports, though southern jia has a much lighter flavour than equatorial produce due to the cooler climate. Consequently Muntani jia is sometimes smoked, spiced or otherwise flavoured.

Though jia was traditionally harvested in the wild, and still is in parts of Moritarr, the majority of jia vines are grown in plantations of managed forest, with trees kept well pruned to allow the vines to flourish.

Jia leaves are picked from mature bushes at least five years old. Leaves grow to about hand-sized and are a dark virid greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen

The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind., with yellowish striations. Leaves ripe for jia-making are harvested when they are about thumb-length, narrow and a yellowish green - not so tender that they are soft and flavourless, and not so long that they become mature and bitter. Ripe jia leaves are not very toxic even in their raw form, but they are prepared by fermentation in a layer of green compost, which consumes many of the toxic compounds. In some areas the green compost is burned off once sufficient fermentation has been reached. Smoked jia is now fashionable in the tea houses of Hartheraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

The Hartheran Union, commonly named Harthera, is an imperialist maritime nation state dominating the northeast of Anásthias. It is one of the two great powers of the modern epoch, arguably the most technologically and militarily powerful nation in the world, only matched by the vast size and wealth of its neighbour, viridOrorrMEOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorr and Hesjbagaaia.

Prepared leaves brewed in a variety of ways. Most commonly, shredded leaves are boiled or steeped for a few minutes before drinking.