Reviewer Clearing

The land

Gently rolling ground under dense evergreen rainforest, 555 m up; brooks and springs in the folds of the ground; far from any sea; hot, with a wet season and a dry season.

Cover

dense evergreen rainforest

Elevation

555 m

Relief

gently rolling ground

Fresh water

brooks and springs in the folds of the ground

The sea

far from any sea

Climate

hot, with a wet season and a dry season

The patch

about 1.85 km north to south and 1.84 km across; 1,853 m north to south, 1,844 m east to west, 3.42 km²

Centre

5.7417°N 21.2750°E

What the land offers a builder

Of this land: timber, bamboo, living plant, earth, stone, hide, bone, cloth, rope, fire. The land allows: ground, stilts, canopy.

Now

Heat and warm here, 04:04 local, the dry season, full dark.

The wild

Animals here this month: elephant (passing), buffalo (rutting), leopard (feeding), bushbuck (feeding), eagle (feeding), monkey (feeding).

• The young elephant of the forest, young elephant, dark, lame; within 1 patch of here.

The lay of the land

• The clearing (clearing): an opening in the canopy where light reaches the ground

What stands here

THE LONGHOUSE — in the clearing. House-sized, up to 12 m. Timber, bamboo, stone. On the ground.
"A long timber hall under a bamboo roof, smoke rising from the ridge"
A hearth of stone inside the centre. A smoke hole of bamboo atop the top. A door of timber facing the east.
Of this land: timber, bamboo, stone.

The people

THE PEOPLE OF REVIEWER CLEARING — gardeners, hunters, and gatherers, settled, in long houses.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the forest sacred.
They keep: the feast at the clearing; burial in the fire; moving every seven years; the long house kept warm for guests; winter stories.
They like bamboo, living plant, monkey, and dawn. They dislike frost, wind, and stone. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth lomre, river or sea anãme, winter or the rains ãwepaõ, the dead paãpãlaã, home noye, stranger haha, feast elu, child põkõ, old one õmã, the place Wehapo, the beast toõkõri, the sky ile.
Founders: four. Lore: 0 lines.

Ways

gardening, hunting, gathering

Settlement

settled

Kinship

long houses

Marriage

either

Naming

given names

To strangers

open

They hold sacred

the forest

They keep

the feast at the clearing; burial in the fire; moving every seven years; the long house kept warm for guests; winter stories

They like

bamboo, living plant, monkey and dawn

They dislike

frost, wind and stone

Founders

4

Counted

4 named folk, a household of 0, 0 born here, 0 died here

Founded

6 November 2026

Their words

hearth lomre, river or sea anãme, winter or the rains ãwepaõ, the dead paãpãlaã, home noye, stranger haha, feast elu, child põkõ, old one õmã, the place Wehapo, the beast toõkõri, the sky ile.

Named folk

The chronicle

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.

Year 1

The annals: 1 beast seen; 1 founders; 1 people founded; beasts: the young anaconda of the forest.

• The dry season, the first year of Reviewer Clearing: the young anaconda of the forest came by the spot.
• The dry season, the first year of Reviewer Clearing: four came to Reviewer Clearing and lit the hearth. The fire-keeper "Wõimioyõ", the keeper of the shrine "Kimkãnyõ", the first who came "Pana", the second who came "Niorarõ". kept
• The dry season, the first year of Reviewer Clearing: Directory Reviewer called a people to Reviewer Clearing: the people of Reviewer Clearing. kept

Here now

the fire-keeper "Wõimioyõ" (folk) · the keeper of the shrine "Kimkãnyõ" (folk) · the first who came "Pana" (folk) · the second who came "Niorarõ" (folk) · the young elephant of the forest (beast, passing)