EremoterraThe chronicle of Pole Position
Open sea, 4247 m deep, kept by Xavier B.
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 POLE POSITION — 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 leela, river or sea wiuweho, winter or the rains huawa, the dead ekahuipe, home leteukatau, stranger railu, feast naivawitiu, child owavihe, old one upivele, the place Uvaeti, the beast uverini, the sky enao. 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 Pole Position: the whale left a line of prints over the low knoll.
- Late autumn, the first year of Pole Position: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Grey Shoal Hold: whale tracks across the low knoll.
- Late autumn, the first year of Grey Shoal Hold: four came to Grey Shoal Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Nutilote", the boatwright "Liipiku", the fire-keeper "Imahikau", the lamp-lighter "Noekiahikeu". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of Grey Shoal Hold: Xavier Beaumont called a people to Grey Shoal Hold: the people of Grey Shoal Hold. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Pole Position · open sea, 4247 m deep — the chronicle, kept by Xavier B. Animals here this month: polar bear (denning), orca (passing), walrus (wintering), seal (feeding), whale (migrating), cod (feeding). This season: a season of fog. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF POLE POSITION — 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 leela, river or sea wiuweho, winter or the rains huawa, the dead ekahuipe, home leteukatau, stranger railu, feast naivawitiu, child owavihe, old one upivele, the place Uvaeti, the beast uverini, the sky enao. 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 Pole Position: the whale left a line of prints over the low knoll. - Late autumn, the first year of Pole Position: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Grey Shoal Hold: whale tracks across the low knoll. - Late autumn, the first year of Grey Shoal Hold: four came to Grey Shoal Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Nutilote", the boatwright "Liipiku", the fire-keeper "Imahikau", the lamp-lighter "Noekiahikeu". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of Grey Shoal Hold: Xavier Beaumont called a people to Grey Shoal Hold: the people of Grey Shoal Hold. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N8932-E00927.txt