A guest in a noble s home is expected to be given a mint-chocolate wafer and cinnamon tea. Both are extremely rare and quite pricey. Southerners tend to be slender with darker skin and hair color and green or brown eyes. Northerners tend to be stout or husky with lighter skin, blonde hair and blue, gray or golden eyes. Southern furniture is generally made of oak or pine and carved all over with various symbols of monetary fortune.
Southern furniture is built to handle smaller framed peoples and often have arm rests.
Northern furniture is often roughly hewn from stone in a vague chair-like shape and almost never has arm rests. In both areas, beds in noble homes always have bed curtains since servants wander the rooms without warning. In some eastern parts of the empire, chaise lounges are common as people there are accustomed to recline rather than sit. Megden nen has the most advanced public sanitation system of any human empire. A sewage system combined with running water helps to keep the city clean.