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Took some two hours? WHAT.
Last time I was this fast I was suffering bipolar in academic life.

Enjoy Selina Pizza. The blood queen.

Selina's early life was muddy, but she remembers bountiful berry bushes and her uncle who took good care of her.
But life was not always this good. One day came a familiar face to the father and daughter pair.
Mama?
It was mama, she took Selina smiling, happy to have her daughter back, the father was none the wiser.

But the joy was short-lived. Selina was locked into a prison tower with her younger sister and brother. All were heirs to the throne of this village, yet only one would rule.
The children were to battle once they were old enough.
Selina as the oldest acted quickly and hid all weapons. There will be no slaughter, her siblings will not die.
Her mother and aunt watched them eagerly in their prison home.

Yet her iron will was not shared by her siblings. Both committed suicide when Selina was well into her teenage years.
Freedom was bittersweet, yet the young girl gave birth to her firstborn. She would remain trapped until she was the only one.
Saddened, she would not be able to put a knife to her own child, never, she resorted to something else.
But she leaned to the newborn baby and whispered.
"please sleep"
And the baby died.

Now free, Selina Swore to rule the village with an iron will.
And her captors, her mother and aunt swore loyalty to her, the new queen. The blood queen.

Her first order was...
Mother, Aunt. Battle to death.
As the two elderly women sparred, Selina gave birth to her third and first surviving child.
Born in the throes of battle, death and life. Her mother was victorious and Selina named her son Kratos.
And bathed him in the blood of his relatives.

She later gave birth to a daughter, Aabha, she was sad, always sad, but she was the heiress to the throne.
But Selina was unhappy, anger boiled in her blood, the village was in ruin, there was no iron.

Together, the two women took a boy from the village to sacrifice to the god of iron. Then they returned to the village with the boy's corpse and sent the many of the male youth out on adventure to find new iron.

Then Selina died.
RIP

FIN

Some photos

Selina and her daughter Aabha sacrifice a boy to the iron god for a bountiful harvest.

Just an offshoot idea regarding risk and reward. It's something that has been on my mind for a bit.

A river mini-biome that is a straight impassable line. Vertical or horizontal, it has a beginning in a spring and it ends in a pond or sinkhole.
It would have varying lengths, some being really short, others being really long. Perhaps they also bend? Creating unique features the otherwise predictable landscape does.

Risk and reward
You can't get water from the river with a bowl, you'll just get a splashed bowl instead of the water since it's so fast-moving. So that won't do.
So how do you use it?

The river floods one tile left and right from it, meaning there is a one tile belt around the river which gets flooded. The land there is fertile and ripe for planting. Since it's next to a river it gets automatically irrigated, meaning you don't have to water it and only need to expand soil and tools on it.

Sounds too good, but here comes the risk. The river periodically floods, washing away the planted crops and rows into a blank slate. (or perhaps it turns all rows into soggy rows, the river variant of a hardened row)
Most plants take 5-ish minutes to grow and two more minutes to be harvestable. Every ten minutes, the river floods for 1-4 minutes, destroying whatever crops you left behind, regardless of their growth state. The water does not take anything else that's not planted in soil.

You will have to be mindful of how many crops you can plant and harvest, if you overextend yourself, you will be wasting resources. And of course, cooperation between multiple people is key this time around if you want to reap a maximum harvest out of a single flood period.

-With this timing, I wonder how the berry bush will fare...
-I have a feeling griefers would dump and till all soil around a river to waste it, but if it turned into a 'hardened row' after flooding it would be easier to just cart the soil away and honestly, I've never seen any person grief a town that way lol so...
-Value of soil, water and iron will get a knock since water is overvalued right now.
-The river could benefit from an 'overflowing' period one or two minutes before it floods as a warning. And maybe a minute long 'dry' period one or two minutes after flooding.
-This is mostly because of how Amon thought keeping crops in their rows was silly with no 'planting' periods and no 'harvest' periods, especially with zero crop failure. You just plant it and leave it and return to it when you need it.

Natural barrier and orientation point
Go north to the river, then go west and cross the second bridge and you'll be home.

With a variable nature, it could prove as a nice border between towns/villages and serve as an important landmark between them.
But of course, it should not be absolute. What about building bridges across a river?

Expanding work
An expansive project like a watermill or a saw would be absolutely bonkers to have. You sacrifice one of three tiles of fertile land to ground stuff or have a longlasting saw.
It probably shouldn't work while it's flooding and some maintenance after long periods of usage would need to exist. Like replacing the saw and the like.
It should be perfect and allow room for better options down the line.

Expanding fishing
Perhaps you can fish in it. With the fish fished different depending on the biome you fish it in. This would leave us with three exclusive fish for each speciality biome race but also four more fish for yum.

As they go:
Bream for the artic. Gamitana for the jungle. Nile perch or tilapia for the desert.
Grayling for grasslands. Common carp for the swamp. Grundling for mountains. Mooneye or catfish or freshwater sunfish for the plains.

Whites
This would need to toss the fishing idea out if only white people could operate the river. Or maybe it's an exception and they can still fish in other biomes lol.
If they have nothing useful to grind from the oil grind, give them fishcake. I'm still not a fan of race restrictions, but hell. Why not.