>>25573173The Lufae have pretty large farmlands on the western portions of their nation, where the soundscape doesn't grow. These farms feed their emils "farms" and bladeshwirm herds, however, bladeswhirms are not the only things they eat. A large portion of their diet is formed from the omnipresent tunnel scwars, that are pretty much everywhere. The underground tunnels also provide them some food, as does their fishing industry. The Lufae possess a healthy food base which they can use to support their numbers.
Also, they do have minor "settlements" outside of their main cities, however, they are usually little more than outward burrows and inhabited sections of the tunnel network. For example, the Farmlands are full of these sorts of minor settlements, as a centralized city has not had time to develop yet.
In addition, the large cities of the Lufae are pretty dang big. With the exception of few cities like Lupai Kaath, most of them are built as much underground, as they are built above it. The geists are at home in these cramped tunnels, as it is in their hypersocial nature to like nearly constant contact with other geists.
As for raw materials, the thing is that the Lufae simply don't need much raw materials, other than organic stuff to feed to their emils farms. Almost everything they make, is made out of emils derived stuff. They also have ready access to some necessary materials they need, like lub skin from Fa Kaath, that is built within a lub forest, and has farms of these things. The Lufae get glass from their volcanic heat utilizing glass factories, the largest ones which are located in Ne Keth, and they have massive amounts of salt from the salt "farms" of Kun Kaath. The water in the tunnel networks, and the large cracks in the ground, is oceanic water after all. They just need to evaporate the water away to get salt.
Also, we need a new thread.
