EremoterraThe chronicle of Where the Bears Were
Tall evergreen needleleaf forest, 175 m up, kept by E. Doyle
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 WHERE THE BEARS WERE — 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 jömla, river or sea unä, winter or the rains samjö, the dead ömohi, home vojatä, stranger ale, feast hamtolvu, child nenu, old one vomnu, the place Rutavo, the beast valhummö, the sky vamönu. 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: 4 carcass; 1 founders; 1 people founded; 8 tracks; 1 ways changed.
- Late autumn, the first year of Where the Bears Were: the birds were at a dead caribou on the low knoll.
- Late autumn, the first year of Where the Bears Were: the moose left a line of prints over the north hill.
- Late autumn, the first year of Where the Bears Were: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the low knoll.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the north hill.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: a moose lay dead on the low knoll; the birds came.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the low knoll.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: a caribou lay dead on the low knoll; the birds came.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: moose tracks across the north hill.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the low knoll.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the north hill.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: a moose lay dead on the low knoll; the birds came.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: four came to Narrow Run and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ovo", the fire-keeper "Vältö", the keeper of the shrine "Vilo", the lamp-lighter "Reläre". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the low knoll.
- Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: Eamonn Doyle called a people to Narrow Run: the people of Narrow Run. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Where the Bears Were · tall evergreen needleleaf forest, 175 m up — the chronicle, kept by E. Doyle Animals here this month: brown bear (denning), caribou (wintering), moose (wintering), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), eagle (feeding). This season: a caribou passage. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF WHERE THE BEARS WERE — 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 jömla, river or sea unä, winter or the rains samjö, the dead ömohi, home vojatä, stranger ale, feast hamtolvu, child nenu, old one vomnu, the place Rutavo, the beast valhummö, the sky vamönu. Their herd: caribou. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (15 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - Late autumn, the first year of Where the Bears Were: the birds were at a dead caribou on the low knoll. - Late autumn, the first year of Where the Bears Were: the moose left a line of prints over the north hill. - Late autumn, the first year of Where the Bears Were: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the low knoll. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the north hill. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: a moose lay dead on the low knoll; the birds came. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the low knoll. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: a caribou lay dead on the low knoll; the birds came. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: moose tracks across the north hill. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the low knoll. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the north hill. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: a moose lay dead on the low knoll; the birds came. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: four came to Narrow Run and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ovo", the fire-keeper "Vältö", the keeper of the shrine "Vilo", the lamp-lighter "Reläre". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: wolf tracks across the low knoll. - Late autumn, the first year of Narrow Run: Eamonn Doyle called a people to Narrow Run: the people of Narrow Run. [kept] Annals, year 1: 4 carcass, 1 founders, 1 people founded, 8 tracks, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N6156-E05525.txt