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The chronicle of Pampa Mia

Open grass steppe, 393 m up, kept by Julian V.

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: puma (denning), guanaco (feeding), huemul (calving), eagle (nesting), giant anteater (feeding), rhea (feeding).

The people

THE MIAFOLK — herders, hunters, and gardeners, seasonal, in bands.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the rain sacred.
They keep: rain songs; age groups; burial in the fire; the feast of the rains' return; gifts to strangers; winter camps away.
They like earth, hide, clear, and wildebeest. They dislike frost, fog, and stone. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth yonmo, river or sea ama, winter or the rains yontu, the dead amu, home samole, stranger una, feast amenga, child songodi, old one usetu, the place Kimemana, the beast takunsa, the sky dodamu.
Their herd: antelope.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.

The chronicle

The chronicle around the year

Year 1

The annals: 1 calving seen; 1 founders; 1 people founded; 2 tracks; 1 ways changed.

What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp

⊕ Pampa Mia · open grass steppe, 393 m up — the chronicle, kept by Julian V.
Animals here this month: puma (denning), guanaco (feeding), huemul (calving), eagle (nesting), giant anteater (feeding), rhea (feeding). This season: the herds calving.

A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0.
THE MIAFOLK — herders, hunters, and gardeners, seasonal, in bands.
Names from their own tongue. They hold the rain sacred.
They keep: rain songs; age groups; burial in the fire; the feast of the rains' return; gifts to strangers; winter camps away.
They like earth, hide, clear, and wildebeest. They dislike frost, fog, and stone. Open to strangers.
Their words: hearth yonmo, river or sea ama, winter or the rains yontu, the dead amu, home samole, stranger una, feast amenga, child songodi, old one usetu, the place Kimemana, the beast takunsa, the sky dodamu.
Their herd: antelope.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

The chronicle, newest first (6 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year):
- Late spring, the first year of Pampa Mia: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept]
- Late spring, the first year of Black Ford Watch: wild ass tracks across the spot.
- Late spring, the first year of Black Ford Watch: antelope calving on the north hill.
- Late spring, the first year of Black Ford Watch: wild ass tracks across the spot.
- Late spring, the first year of Black Ford Watch: four came to Black Ford Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Asongdengi", the fire-keeper "Ongo", the keeper of the store "Ame", the keeper of the shrine "Salu". [kept]
- Late spring, the first year of Black Ford Watch: Julian Vance called a people to Black Ford Watch: the people of Black Ford Watch. [kept]

Annals, year 1: 1 calving seen, 1 founders, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed

The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S3621-W06719.txt