EremoterraThe chronicle of Firn & Sons
The ice sheet, 3041 m up, kept by oswin
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.
The people
THE PEOPLE OF FIRN & SONS — 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 tiaatangquu, river or sea ruumaa, winter or the rains maantii, the dead niiluungtang, home muatimuv, stranger niiamuum, feast nguakisiia, child liiaakaang, old one kuuiimang, the place Kaavang, the beast minqiuu, the sky riivaatuun. 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 spring, the first year of Firn & Sons: the arctic fox left a line of prints over the wide floe.
- Late spring, the first year of Firn & Sons: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late spring, the first year of Windward Firn: arctic fox tracks across the wide floe.
- Late spring, the first year of Windward Firn: four came to Windward Firn and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the fire-keeper, the keeper of the shrine, the lamp-lighter. kept
- Late spring, the first year of Windward Firn: Oswin Mercer called a people to Windward Firn: the people of Windward Firn. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Firn & Sons · the ice sheet, 3041 m up — the chronicle, kept by oswin Animals here this month: little that shows. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF FIRN & SONS — 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 tiaatangquu, river or sea ruumaa, winter or the rains maantii, the dead niiluungtang, home muatimuv, stranger niiamuum, feast nguakisiia, child liiaakaang, old one kuuiimang, the place Kaavang, the beast minqiuu, the sky riivaatuun. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (5 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - Late spring, the first year of Firn & Sons: the arctic fox left a line of prints over the wide floe. - Late spring, the first year of Firn & Sons: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late spring, the first year of Windward Firn: arctic fox tracks across the wide floe. - Late spring, the first year of Windward Firn: four came to Windward Firn and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the fire-keeper, the keeper of the shrine, the lamp-lighter. [kept] - Late spring, the first year of Windward Firn: Oswin Mercer called a people to Windward Firn: the people of Windward Firn. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S7221-E10246.txt