EremoterraThe chronicle of Ёлки
Tall evergreen needleleaf forest, 59 m up, kept by corin_h
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), beaver (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF ЁЛКИ — 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 vöko, river or sea evi, winter or the rains tölojä, the dead ujö, home hulhilne, stranger sirnanke, feast hesile, child ronjöju, old one tatine, the place Tamrötä, the beast ölämlä, the sky melije. 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 Ёлки: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of East Run: four came to East Run and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Marvanö", the fire-keeper "Hurrehi", the keeper of the shrine "Jelsuto", the lamp-lighter "Jemä". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of East Run: Corin Hale called a people to East Run: the people of East Run. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Ёлки · tall evergreen needleleaf forest, 59 m up — the chronicle, kept by corin_h Animals here this month: brown bear (denning), caribou (wintering), moose (wintering), wolf (passing), elk (migrating), beaver (feeding). This season: an early freeze. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF ЁЛКИ — 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 vöko, river or sea evi, winter or the rains tölojä, the dead ujö, home hulhilne, stranger sirnanke, feast hesile, child ronjöju, old one tatine, the place Tamrötä, the beast ölämlä, the sky melije. 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 Ёлки: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of East Run: four came to East Run and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Marvanö", the fire-keeper "Hurrehi", the keeper of the shrine "Jelsuto", the lamp-lighter "Jemä". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of East Run: Corin Hale called a people to East Run: the people of East Run. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N6443-E07117.txt