Camel Bread

Do not eat the Camel Bread. It's not actually bread. And it doesn't have anything to do with camels, either.

It's not any kind of food at all, even for the animal it was named for. This is especially confusing because it does actually look like a loaf of bread, so it's not an uncommon mistake to make even when you know that it's specifically not actually bread.

The name comes entirely from the appearance. It has two humps on top, and is otherwise a squishy-looking brown rectangular prism.

This comes about through the creation process. Two separate fibers are combined into one brick so that a spinner can then make it into thread or yarn. Hence the two humps, as the points where the fibers connected.

It's a way of doubling up on enchantments. One set of roving can have one magic inlaid, and the other can be prepared another way. Linking the two means that the magic is not overwhelming itself or overriding, but the two separate physical components can be combined without interference.

Spinning it into yarn is slightly more challenging because between the magic and the doubled roving the tops can be quite thick and dense. It's easier than attempting to spin them together from two separate piles of roving, because the combining has already been done.

Camel bread can lead to somewhat unpredictable application of magic. While the makers try to keep things as even as possible, the fibers combine in an almost indistinguishable way so it can be hard to tell.

This is a practice in the Lezoru desert, with their high emphasis on high quality textiles. The process is not proprietary but it is rather difficult to learn and thus the practice has largely remained local to them.