The shee and their samovar

The shee were not known to be the most sociable of creatures. Utterly losing themselves in their work, observations or even the maze of their own ideas, they were a secluded lot. In these episodes of wonder and genius they barely took care of themselves, many surviving by the tendency of norns to leave half eaten cookies everywhere and the ettin's servile nature.

To this hermit lifestyle there was but one big exception: Tea parties. At times as many Shee as could be wrenched from their workshops and laboratories came together. Large stacks of cookies would be ordered from the Ettin bakeries, and their best teas were brought to be put into big, self boiling vats. These were Samovar, the heart of the party. Thus provided the Shee started their philosophical discussions with equal zeal as they committed to their experiments. 

Days, sometimes even weeks passed in heated and confusing discussion. A non Shee onlooker would have quite some trouble making heads or tails of the nature or conclusions of the talks, considering many were held at once. Often by the same Shee, too. 

At these parties all kinds of tea related experiments too were tried. Herbs, milk, sugar. When common ingredients were exhausted, salt, spices, even butter were tried, with mixed success. One now infamous tea party used a particularly potent mix of badplants, resulting in the eventual birth of the Banshee by the chemically inspired tea enjoyers.

These samovars still, every now and then, pop up around the warp despite the mysterious disappearance of their creators. Both the Shee samovar with its hydrating and nutritious contents as its banshee counterpart with its interesting mixes.

The basic shee samovar can be downloaded here on creatures caves.