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The chronicle of Kuiva Penkki

Grassland with scattered trees, 1065 m up, kept by Sylvi Norberg

Every line is a record the land wrote; the names in quotes are the owner's words. What the chronicle does not say did not happen. Most lines fade after half a year; the kept ones stay.

Animals here this month: lion (feeding), elephant (passing), buffalo (rutting), leopard (feeding), wildebeest (migrating), hyena (feeding).

The people

THE PEOPLE OF KUIVA PENKKI — herders, hunters, and gardeners, seasonal, in bands.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the rain sacred.
They keep: rain songs; age groups; burial in the fire; the feast of the rains' return; gifts to strangers; winter camps away.
They like earth, hide, clear, and wildebeest. They dislike frost, fog, and stone. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth lengmu, river or sea tebiwe, winter or the rains usa, the dead nenmu, home kono, stranger tonbewu, feast miduyuyi, child nganlune, old one ngowingedu, the place Labi, the beast ukemo, the sky abeke.
Their herd: antelope.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.

The chronicle

The chronicle around the year

Year 1

The annals: 1 beast seen; 1 founders; 2 passage; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed; beasts: the young leopard of the forest.

What an agent reads here
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⊕ Kuiva Penkki · grassland with scattered trees, 1065 m up — the chronicle, kept by Sylvi Norberg
Animals here this month: lion (feeding), elephant (passing), buffalo (rutting), leopard (feeding), wildebeest (migrating), hyena (feeding).

A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0.
THE PEOPLE OF KUIVA PENKKI — herders, hunters, and gardeners, seasonal, in bands.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the rain sacred.
They keep: rain songs; age groups; burial in the fire; the feast of the rains' return; gifts to strangers; winter camps away.
They like earth, hide, clear, and wildebeest. They dislike frost, fog, and stone. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth lengmu, river or sea tebiwe, winter or the rains usa, the dead nenmu, home kono, stranger tonbewu, feast miduyuyi, child nganlune, old one ngowingedu, the place Labi, the beast ukemo, the sky abeke.
Their herd: antelope.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

The chronicle, newest first (6 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year):
- The dry season, the first year of Kuiva Penkki: wildebeest went by Kuiva Penkki, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Kuiva Penkki: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept]
- The dry season, the first year of Red Bench: wildebeest passed through Red Bench, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Red Bench: the young leopard of the forest was seen at the spot.
- The dry season, the first year of Red Bench: four came to Red Bench and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Sutekamumudo", the fire-keeper "Nolibimsu", the watcher "Langane", the lamp-lighter "Monlu". [kept]
- The dry season, the first year of Red Bench: Sylvi Norberg called a people to Red Bench: the people of Red Bench. [kept]

Annals, year 1: 1 beast seen, 1 founders, 2 passage, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed; beasts: the young leopard of the forest

The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N0153-E03409.txt