EremoterraThe chronicle of Taiga Motel
Tall evergreen needleleaf forest, 368 m up, kept by celandine
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), eagle (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF TAIGA MOTEL — 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 mömhö, river or sea sönho, winter or the rains vumukä, the dead tämnö, home nänönö, stranger olumku, feast utenu, child vime, old one mumhe, the place Mörsule, the beast hontö, the sky önäre. 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 Taiga Motel: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Far Timber Watch: four came to Far Timber Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Hasä", the fire-keeper "Ömu", the keeper of the shrine "Jömko", the lamp-lighter "Manlö". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Far Timber Watch: Celandine Moss called a people to Far Timber Watch: the people of Far Timber Watch. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Taiga Motel · tall evergreen needleleaf forest, 368 m up — the chronicle, kept by celandine Animals here this month: brown bear (denning), caribou (wintering), moose (wintering), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), eagle (feeding). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF TAIGA MOTEL — 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 mömhö, river or sea sönho, winter or the rains vumukä, the dead tämnö, home nänönö, stranger olumku, feast utenu, child vime, old one mumhe, the place Mörsule, the beast hontö, the sky önäre. 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 Taiga Motel: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Far Timber Watch: four came to Far Timber Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Hasä", the fire-keeper "Ömu", the keeper of the shrine "Jömko", the lamp-lighter "Manlö". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Far Timber Watch: Celandine Moss called a people to Far Timber Watch: the people of Far Timber Watch. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N6132-E10537.txt