EremoterraThe chronicle of Steppe by Steppe
Open grass steppe, 10 m up, kept by Orlaith B.
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), caribou (wintering), moose (wintering), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), wild horse (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF STEPPE BY STEPPE — hunters, fishers, and gatherers, seasonal, in hearth households. Names from their own tongue. They hold the river sacred. They keep: the first-salmon feast; no fishing at spawning; sky burial on a platform; winter stories; summer camps away. They like timber, salmon, moose, and snow. They dislike mosquito, heat, and stone. Wary to strangers. Their words: hearth kilumä, river or sea räkomä, winter or the rains ivätö, the dead tälmolä, home öti, stranger tosirme, feast urä, child hokale, old one hurja, the place Ätänvu, the beast ävu, the sky otesö. 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 Steppe by Steppe: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Slate Bench: four came to Slate Bench and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ölu", the fire-keeper "Öli", the watcher "Jörsöso", the lamp-lighter "Inö". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Slate Bench: Orlaith Byrne called a people to Slate Bench: the people of Slate Bench. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Steppe by Steppe · open grass steppe, 10 m up — the chronicle, kept by Orlaith B. Animals here this month: brown bear (denning), caribou (wintering), moose (wintering), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), wild horse (feeding). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF STEPPE BY STEPPE — hunters, fishers, and gatherers, seasonal, in hearth households. Names from their own tongue. They hold the river sacred. They keep: the first-salmon feast; no fishing at spawning; sky burial on a platform; winter stories; summer camps away. They like timber, salmon, moose, and snow. They dislike mosquito, heat, and stone. Wary to strangers. Their words: hearth kilumä, river or sea räkomä, winter or the rains ivätö, the dead tälmolä, home öti, stranger tosirme, feast urä, child hokale, old one hurja, the place Ätänvu, the beast ävu, the sky otesö. 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 Steppe by Steppe: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Slate Bench: four came to Slate Bench and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ölu", the fire-keeper "Öli", the watcher "Jörsöso", the lamp-lighter "Inö". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Slate Bench: Orlaith Byrne called a people to Slate Bench: the people of Slate Bench. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N4943-E04521.txt