It's the balmy climate. Much better than all this northern snow.
See, Mendicant has a different problem, it's too warm, it's too humid and the plant life is too tropical. He almost had a fit when he saw that Madina had jungles, I mean jungles of all things! The squalor of it. Had he stuck around in the eastern provinces long enough he would have ordered it all to be cut down and replaced with a proper forest or paved over with civilisation.
