EremoterraThe chronicle of Redwood Row
Tall evergreen needleleaf forest, 1483 m up, kept by cedric
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: brown bear (denning), puma (feeding), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), white-tailed deer (rutting), black bear (denning).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF REDWOOD ROW — hunters, gatherers, and herders, seasonal, in hearth households. Names from their own tongue. They hold the forest sacred. They keep: winter stories; sky burial on a platform; the midwinter feast; wariness before strangers; the hearth never cold. They like timber, snow, elk, and frost. They dislike mosquito, heat, and fog. Wary to strangers. Their words: hearth ijä, river or sea ätermi, winter or the rains sövävo, the dead jorronse, home seljömvo, stranger ekäme, feast jänrerve, child uvurte, old one jovöta, the place Semkurö, the beast vurju, the sky äkämlä. Their herd: caribou. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.
4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.
The chronicle
Year 1
The annals: 1 founders; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.
- Late autumn, the first year of Redwood Row: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Black Fork Hold: four came to Black Fork Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Tanne", the fire-keeper "Sämvu", the keeper of the store "Larkirkö", the keeper of the shrine "Lomviro". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Black Fork Hold: Cedric Lemieux called a people to Black Fork Hold: the people of Black Fork Hold. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Redwood Row · tall evergreen needleleaf forest, 1483 m up — the chronicle, kept by cedric Animals here this month: brown bear (denning), puma (feeding), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), white-tailed deer (rutting), black bear (denning). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF REDWOOD ROW — hunters, gatherers, and herders, seasonal, in hearth households. Names from their own tongue. They hold the forest sacred. They keep: winter stories; sky burial on a platform; the midwinter feast; wariness before strangers; the hearth never cold. They like timber, snow, elk, and frost. They dislike mosquito, heat, and fog. Wary to strangers. Their words: hearth ijä, river or sea ätermi, winter or the rains sövävo, the dead jorronse, home seljömvo, stranger ekäme, feast jänrerve, child uvurte, old one jovöta, the place Semkurö, the beast vurju, the sky äkämlä. Their herd: caribou. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (3 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - Late autumn, the first year of Redwood Row: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Black Fork Hold: four came to Black Fork Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Tanne", the fire-keeper "Sämvu", the keeper of the store "Larkirkö", the keeper of the shrine "Lomviro". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Black Fork Hold: Cedric Lemieux called a people to Black Fork Hold: the people of Black Fork Hold. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N4008-W12257.txt