Hunting

Despite the very wide variety of beasts, most are widely considered inedible by the Voscans.
Predators for example are considered unclean and bad to eat, which rules out a great many monsters. Drakes are also considered unhealthy — which is actually true, most of them end up with a dangerously high heavy metal reserve in their bodies and are extremely toxic.
It may well be that the finest game in Vosca to be hunted for food is still the elk, or perhaps the boar. That is not to say however that predators are not occasionally hunted for sport or safety — Gallian Cave Lions are fearsome creatures, and some can grow quite large, and hungry for human flesh. It is also always considered appropriate to kill the hyenas who dwell in Iber, Southern Galli and (far less today than once) in Illegon. They're not beautiful creatures but they travel in packs, and having a very broad rug made of many dead hyenas is something appropriate of any lord.
Last and finally, in Dace there is the Ostokroznok — which may or may not be real, but which could taste like anything, because none have ever been caught and eaten. The Ostokroznok (commonly called the Roznok) is some sort of large cat — either a tiger or a lion, researchers theorize the former — that is invisible to the naked eye.
Many great hunters have vanished trying to find this beast.
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