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The episode explores the worldbuilding aspects of food in the Thirteenth Hour sequel, focusing on the main characters' experiences and cultural exchanges.

This week, on the show, I thought I'd explore a little more about how the Thirteenth Hour sequel is going, especially in one small area. Logan and Aurora, the main characters from the original Thirteenth Hour are last seen on a small island off the coast of the mainland. (I talked a little about the island in episode 522 .) They learn to be pretty self sufficient there, but I also imagined that they exchanged ideas, customs, clothes, food, and other parts of life with some other groups of people nearby - the half elf community located on the other side of the island and the town of Ravenvale, which has a number of shops, a market where they occasional sell food they have harvested and things they've made as well as pick up supplies, and an inn where they sometimes splurge for a weekend getaway. I have often thought that in their youth, growing up in the Aquarian orphanage, they would have eaten a lot of soup, since that is cheap and can be easily made. But I also imagined that in the forested region they lived in, which was intended to be temperate in nature, would have been too cold for crops like rice but okay for grains grown on some of the farms nearby. The main export of…

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