Maison de la Pluie

The land

Flat ground under dense evergreen rainforest, 56 m up; a stream or a small pool; far from any sea; hot and wet the year round.

Cover

dense evergreen rainforest

Elevation

56 m

Relief

flat ground

Fresh water

a stream or a small pool

The sea

far from any sea

Climate

hot and wet the year round

The patch

about 1.85 km north to south and 1.85 km across; 1,853 m north to south, 1,851 m east to west, 3.43 km²

Centre

2.5083°S 66.5417°W

What the land offers a builder

Of this land: timber, bamboo, living plant, earth, brick, tile, stone, hide, bone, cloth, rope, water, fire. Of the region: reed. The land allows: ground, stilts, afloat, canopy, spanning.

Now

Overcast and warm here, 23:17 local, the rains, as always, full dark.

The wild

Animals here this month: jaguar (feeding), puma (denning), crocodile (feeding), white-tailed deer (calving), peccary (calving), brocket deer (calving).

The lay of the land

• The inner grove (grove): a close stand of straight trunks with deep leaf litter below
• The low thicket (thicket): a dense tangle of low branches that turns the cold gusts

What stands here

THE LONGHOUSE — on the inner grove. House-sized, about 6 m. Timber, bamboo, stone. On the ground.
"A low timber longhouse under a pitched bamboo roof with smoke rising from the ridge"
A roof of bamboo atop the top: pitched low to shed rain and heavy gusts. A hearth of stone inside the centre: set with flat stones to hold the embers through the night. A doorway of timber facing the south: fitted with a heavy latch on the leeward side. A storage rack of timber along the north side, hung with dry provisions, cordage, and spare gear.
Of this land: timber, bamboo, stone.

THE WAY SHRINE — beside the low thicket. Small, about 4 m. Timber, reed, bronze. On the ground.
"A quiet timber enclosure with a carved post and a sheltered offering shelf"
An altar stone of timber inside the centre: worn smooth by salt air and rain. A lantern hook of bronze at the front: lit at dusk when travellers are abroad.
Of this land: timber. Of the region: reed. Carried here: bronze.

The story, as Fleur D. tells it

Of the place

• Narrow Run Hold was laid out by Fleur Delarue, who marked the inner grove first and set the longhouse to face out of the prevailing weather.

Of the people

• They keep a dry stack of fuel beside the longhouse and share the first meal at the hearth with any traveller who crosses the inner grove. (heard when a people lives here)
• Before winter sets in they check the lashings and stones of the way shrine and sing the names of the first four who came. (heard when a people lives here)

The people

THE PEOPLE OF MAISON DE LA PLUIE — gardeners, fishers, and hunters, settled, in long houses.
Names from the land they stand on. They hold the forest sacred.
They keep: the feast at the clearing; burial in the water; names from the land; the long house kept warm for guests; songs at the water.
They like bamboo, living plant, catfish, and heavy rain. They dislike frost, drought, and stone. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth oyiõyau, river or sea tumyamno, winter or the rains okemu, the dead kinluki, home uyuaro, stranger huõlãnria, feast õpua, child nãnu, old one rãekeõru, the place Nãalãkõ, the beast numpõo, the sky yeomu.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

Ways

gardening, fishing, hunting

Settlement

settled

Kinship

long houses

Marriage

either

Naming

from the land

To strangers

open

They hold sacred

the forest

They keep

the feast at the clearing; burial in the water; names from the land; the long house kept warm for guests; songs at the water

They like

bamboo, living plant, catfish and heavy rain

They dislike

frost, drought and stone

Founders

4

Counted

4 named folk, a household of 0, 0 born here, 0 died here

Founded

9 November 2026

Their words

hearth oyiõyau, river or sea tumyamno, winter or the rains okemu, the dead kinluki, home uyuaro, stranger huõlãnria, feast õpua, child nãnu, old one rãekeõru, the place Nãalãkõ, the beast numpõo, the sky yeomu.

Their lore

• They keep a dry stack of fuel beside the longhouse and share the first meal at the hearth with any traveller who crosses the inner grove.
• Before winter sets in they check the lashings and stones of the way shrine and sing the names of the first four who came.

Named folk

The chronicle

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.

Year 1

The annals: 1 first roof; 1 founders; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.

• The rains, as always, the first year of Maison de la Pluie: the first roof went up at Maison de la Pluie: the longhouse. kept
• The rains, as always, the first year of Maison de la Pluie: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
• The rains, as always, the first year of Narrow Run Hold: four came to Narrow Run Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Thicket-side", the fire-keeper "Spot-ward", the keeper of the shrine "Spot-side", the lamp-lighter "Thicket-born". kept
• The rains, as always, the first year of Narrow Run Hold: Fleur Delarue called a people to Narrow Run Hold: the people of Narrow Run Hold. kept

Here now

the net-mender "Thicket-side" (folk) · the fire-keeper "Spot-ward" (folk) · the keeper of the shrine "Spot-side" (folk) · the lamp-lighter "Thicket-born" (folk)