EremoterraThe chronicle of Ethiopian Summer
Open grass steppe, 699 m up, kept by Delphine R.
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), buffalo (rutting), wildebeest (migrating), antelope (rutting), wild ass (feeding), fox (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIAN SUMMER — 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 kakewi, river or sea somyebu, winter or the rains wuboko, the dead lumtatoyuna, home nengwe, stranger todanno, feast ilola, child enge, old one yesetongeki, the place Kokoba, the beast aseyi, the sky tengi. Their herd: antelope. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.
4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.
The chronicle
Year 1
The annals: 1 founders; 4 passage; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.
- The dry, as always, the first year of Ethiopian Summer: a band of wildebeest crossed Ethiopian Summer, migrating.
- The dry, as always, the first year of Ethiopian Summer: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: wildebeest passed through White Terrace Hold, migrating.
- The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: wildebeest passed through White Terrace Hold, migrating.
- The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: wildebeest passed through White Terrace Hold, migrating.
- The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: four came to White Terrace Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ngosongenga", the fire-keeper "Ngongya", the keeper of the shrine "Wangme", the lamp-lighter "Ema". kept
- The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: Delphine Roy called a people to White Terrace Hold: the people of White Terrace Hold. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Ethiopian Summer · open grass steppe, 699 m up — the chronicle, kept by Delphine R. Animals here this month: lion (feeding), buffalo (rutting), wildebeest (migrating), antelope (rutting), wild ass (feeding), fox (feeding). This season: a plague of mice. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF ETHIOPIAN SUMMER — 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 kakewi, river or sea somyebu, winter or the rains wuboko, the dead lumtatoyuna, home nengwe, stranger todanno, feast ilola, child enge, old one yesetongeki, the place Kokoba, the beast aseyi, the sky tengi. Their herd: antelope. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (7 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - The dry, as always, the first year of Ethiopian Summer: a band of wildebeest crossed Ethiopian Summer, migrating. - The dry, as always, the first year of Ethiopian Summer: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: wildebeest passed through White Terrace Hold, migrating. - The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: wildebeest passed through White Terrace Hold, migrating. - The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: wildebeest passed through White Terrace Hold, migrating. - The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: four came to White Terrace Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ngosongenga", the fire-keeper "Ngongya", the keeper of the shrine "Wangme", the lamp-lighter "Ema". [kept] - The dry, as always, the first year of White Terrace Hold: Delphine Roy called a people to White Terrace Hold: the people of White Terrace Hold. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 4 passage, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N0913-E04912.txt