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Dū is the root word in the name of a granary Age, Er'duna. While the name of the guild which owned that Age and many others is normally translated as the Guild of Caterers, that's not a literal translation. The guild's name in D'ni is Telokh Dū'sholtantē, which translates as "guild of food preparers". In other words, it could just as easily be translated as the Guild of Cooks.
But it goes much deeper than that. The Guild was one of the eighteen major guilds that ruled D'ni after the abdication of King Kerath, and it was a major guild because it was far more important that just the name suggests.
When you live underground all your life, there aren't very many things you can do to grow or gather food. There were fish in the D'ni lake system, and mushrooms and other fungi might have been available, but that's a pretty limited diet and with a population of hundreds of thousands, you'd fish the lakes out pretty quickly if they were all you had. That's where the guild of caterers came in. They were not necessarily responsible for cooking, although they did that. What they really did was to produce food for D'ni. They owned many Ages where they had extensive farms, ranches, fisheries, and other means of production, and they processed the raw foodstuffs into the products that were part of the D'ni diet.
If you were a D'ni housewife, you probably cooked for your family. But you started by going to a guild market and buying guild bread, meats, and vegetables. Literally everything you put on the table save water was thanks to the guild of caterers and the massive organization they had in place to bring that food to you. Without them, life in the D'ni caverns would not have been possible. Is it any wonder that they were considered one of the most important of the important guilds?
_________________ * b'tagamem mot seKem ril ge'Dan Kenen reKElen faex b'sEnem ge'Dan -- lårE leDA Until next time! -- Larry LeDeay 3 # 11308 The Lost Library of D'ni
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