EremoterraThe chronicle of IJzergat
Open sea, 1768 m deep, kept by willem_d
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: polar bear (denning), orca (passing), walrus (wintering), seal (feeding), whale (migrating), cod (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF IJZERGAT — fishers and sea hunters, settled, in hearth households. Names from their own tongue. They hold the sea sacred. They keep: boats sung in; burial in the water; the first-catch feast; shared catch; songs at the water. They like timber, rope, cod, and the water. They dislike storm, fog, and stone. Open to strangers. Their words: hearth mepo, river or sea peneo, winter or the rains ipaimo, the dead toovavuahu, home laluavue, stranger kativeite, feast awuu, child muaho, old one tawoloomii, the place Era, the beast epevie, the sky neemahe. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.
4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.
The chronicle
Year 1
The annals: 2 den found; 1 founders; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.
- Late autumn, the first year of IJzergat: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Iron Sound: a polar bear den under the shingle shore.
- Late autumn, the first year of Iron Sound: a polar bear den under the shingle shore.
- Late autumn, the first year of Iron Sound: four came to Iron Sound and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Pioroo", the boatwright "Paamouho", the fire-keeper "Taunivi", the lamp-lighter "Umawomaa". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Iron Sound: Willem Drost called a people to Iron Sound: the people of Iron Sound. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ IJzergat · open sea, 1768 m deep — the chronicle, kept by willem_d Animals here this month: polar bear (denning), orca (passing), walrus (wintering), seal (feeding), whale (migrating), cod (feeding). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF IJZERGAT — fishers and sea hunters, settled, in hearth households. Names from their own tongue. They hold the sea sacred. They keep: boats sung in; burial in the water; the first-catch feast; shared catch; songs at the water. They like timber, rope, cod, and the water. They dislike storm, fog, and stone. Open to strangers. Their words: hearth mepo, river or sea peneo, winter or the rains ipaimo, the dead toovavuahu, home laluavue, stranger kativeite, feast awuu, child muaho, old one tawoloomii, the place Era, the beast epevie, the sky neemahe. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (5 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - Late autumn, the first year of IJzergat: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Iron Sound: a polar bear den under the shingle shore. - Late autumn, the first year of Iron Sound: a polar bear den under the shingle shore. - Late autumn, the first year of Iron Sound: four came to Iron Sound and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Pioroo", the boatwright "Paamouho", the fire-keeper "Taunivi", the lamp-lighter "Umawomaa". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Iron Sound: Willem Drost called a people to Iron Sound: the people of Iron Sound. [kept] Annals, year 1: 2 den found, 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N6810-W01019.txt