Eremoterra

The chronicle of Bowen's Reef

Open sea, 2430 m deep, kept by Emrys Bowen

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: whale (migrating), shark (feeding), sea turtle (feeding), dolphin (feeding), tuna (passing), reef fish (feeding).

The people

THE PEOPLE OF BOWEN'S REEF — herders, gardeners, and hunters, settled, in hearth households.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the mountain sacred.
They keep: stone cairns on passes; wool working; burial in a cairn; the midsummer feast; hospitality to strangers.
They like stone, slate, ibex, and clear. They dislike fog, heavy rain, and sand. Wary to strangers.
Their words: hearth rol, river or sea lerno, winter or the rains demnil, the dead led, home laket, stranger likna, feast pan, child pag, old one let, the place Nip, the beast rer, the sky gap.
Their herd: wild goat.
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 founders; 4 passage; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.

What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp

⊕ Bowen's Reef · open sea, 2430 m deep — the chronicle, kept by Emrys Bowen
Animals here this month: whale (migrating), shark (feeding), sea turtle (feeding), dolphin (feeding), tuna (passing), reef fish (feeding).

A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0.
THE PEOPLE OF BOWEN'S REEF — herders, gardeners, and hunters, settled, in hearth households.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the mountain sacred.
They keep: stone cairns on passes; wool working; burial in a cairn; the midsummer feast; hospitality to strangers.
They like stone, slate, ibex, and clear. They dislike fog, heavy rain, and sand. Wary to strangers.
Their words: hearth rol, river or sea lerno, winter or the rains demnil, the dead led, home laket, stranger likna, feast pan, child pag, old one let, the place Nip, the beast rer, the sky gap.
Their herd: wild goat.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

The chronicle, newest first (7 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year):
- The dry season, the first year of Bowen's Reef: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept]
- The dry season, the first year of Iron Sound Hold: whale passed through Iron Sound Hold, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Iron Sound Hold: whale passed through Iron Sound Hold, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Iron Sound Hold: whale passed through Iron Sound Hold, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Iron Sound Hold: whale passed through Iron Sound Hold, migrating.
- The dry season, the first year of Iron Sound Hold: four came to Iron Sound Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Telre", the boatwright "Kor", the fire-keeper "Ga", the lamp-lighter "Lemkop". [kept]
- The dry season, the first year of Iron Sound Hold: Emrys Bowen called a people to Iron Sound Hold: the people of Iron Sound Hold. [kept]

Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 4 passage, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed

The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N1748-W08615.txt