EremoterraThe chronicle of Whale Road
The ice sheet, 2141 m up, kept by Fintan
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: arctic fox (wintering).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF WHALE ROAD — ice hunters and hunters, wandering, in bands. No given names; each is known by what they do. They hold the sky sacred. They keep: silence in the long night; shared catch; the long migration. They like clear, ice, and snow. They dislike heat and fog. Closed to strangers. Their words: hearth qamqu, river or sea ukmin, winter or the rains qunmutaaq, the dead singuvsu, home irkuulu, stranger tuumlu, feast aangiing, child tirii, old one siiluul, the place Titaasaan, the beast iimmiiqi, the sky taanmauu. 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; 2 tracks; 1 ways changed.
- Late autumn, the first year of Whale Road: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Salt Saddle Watch: arctic fox tracks across the grass meadow.
- Late autumn, the first year of Salt Saddle Watch: arctic fox tracks across the grass meadow.
- Late autumn, the first year of Salt Saddle Watch: four came to Salt Saddle Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the fire-keeper, the keeper of the store, the first who came. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Salt Saddle Watch: Fintan MacBride called a people to Salt Saddle Watch: the people of Salt Saddle Watch. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Whale Road · the ice sheet, 2141 m up — the chronicle, kept by Fintan Animals here this month: arctic fox (wintering). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF WHALE ROAD — ice hunters and hunters, wandering, in bands. No given names; each is known by what they do. They hold the sky sacred. They keep: silence in the long night; shared catch; the long migration. They like clear, ice, and snow. They dislike heat and fog. Closed to strangers. Their words: hearth qamqu, river or sea ukmin, winter or the rains qunmutaaq, the dead singuvsu, home irkuulu, stranger tuumlu, feast aangiing, child tirii, old one siiluul, the place Titaasaan, the beast iimmiiqi, the sky taanmauu. 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 Whale Road: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Salt Saddle Watch: arctic fox tracks across the grass meadow. - Late autumn, the first year of Salt Saddle Watch: arctic fox tracks across the grass meadow. - Late autumn, the first year of Salt Saddle Watch: four came to Salt Saddle Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the fire-keeper, the keeper of the store, the first who came. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Salt Saddle Watch: Fintan MacBride called a people to Salt Saddle Watch: the people of Salt Saddle Watch. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N7736-W03339.txt