If we have cheese in PS, then we can have tofu. So long as there are also beans.
Aside from the bacteria involved in cheeses, the process of making tofu is very similar.
It's just bean curd in it's simplest state.
As for vegetarianism, and the vegan lifestyle in PS...
As I understand it, the known inhabited world is a very delicate enclosed system.
Meat in most domesticated forms would need to be watched carefully, as it takes quite a bit of room and rescources to raise cattle.
I also don't imagine it would be very hard to over fish more easily gathered seafood.
However, we do have many monsters and insect species to go after. These would be the most easily gathered meats, but due to general dificulty involved in gathering meat that would be more appetizing,
you would either have low cost junk meat or high cost prime monster meat in smaller quantities.
The world might seem big for a player, but the entire ecosystem as a whole is pretty damned tiny,
so a more vegan approach would be more logical, as it costs less rescources to maintain and has a smaller effect on the environment.
These arguments are made to support veganism in real life, and given the structure of this world they seem all the more logical.
In fact, given the lack of medical knowledge when it comes to certain kinds of disease, I'm suprised that people actually throw their dead in the pit when they might serve as a practical resource.
(But then, I'm a bit crazy anyway)
In anycase, I think that Enki should have the first choice when it comes to meats as they probably don't have the proper digestive organs for most plants.
Other races would have to make due with seaweed, beans, mushrooms, small domesticated birds and thier eggs, and the little bit of meat that comes from monster hunting.
I wonder if some species of giant insect could be succefully domesticated?
Something like the clackers, or even giant bees/wasps for honey? Some kind of ant, or roachlike creature that could live off of useless waste?
I'm sure some of these types of animals could offer useful carapaces for armor/clothes/decoration.
One of the things I'm getting at is that a more vegaterian centric lifestyle (at least one that avoids meat as we know it in the real world) could be much more interesting to see as supporting this fantasy world. Since the people would have to deal with these problems in unique ways.
If I remember correctly, there is already some hint that most of the societies already practice a low meat diet for some of the reasons I listed above.
For instance, the main beast of burden is used for labor and sheared for it's coat but they are never slaughtered because it would take too many resources to breed them for such purposes.
After typing all of this, I've decided that I want giant domesticated bees dammit!
You get honey, meat, wax, carapaces, and I'm assuming that with giant pollinators, they would have to have some kind of giant plant...
Could we please have some huge flowering herbal plant species rather than generic trees?
Hell, banana trees are just giant flowers.
This may end up beeing one of the lingering goals of Opeitus...
