so one idea that I'm sticking around on is how the drug cultures of cobrin'seil work; like, who delivers what and how?
the eresh protectorate is a cosmopolitan high-trade environment with a lot of specialised substances moving around that are of different types of regulation, and the joke of the society is that it's a land of 'a thousand sausages and cheese,' which is used to mock the culture for its homogenity but also, sausages and cheese whip, and you can have all sorts of ways of getting fucked up that are transported
another idea is numeracy? I been talking with decay about how numbers work and how there's a lot of complex ways to talk about numbers that can be built into language, and that plays into different vibes
the immensely polysynthetic contextual dependent language of the goblins, for example, is a nightmare to counterspell because you don't know until literally last syllable what the spell they're making is, while eladrin spells rhyme from the first word and instead they try to make their spells hard to counterspell with what amounts to cryptography