EremoterraThe chronicle of Cold Comfort
The ice sheet, 39 m up, kept by Halvor
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 COLD COMFORT — 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 uuqniiqaan, river or sea nuunguuvmaam, winter or the rains naminaang, the dead kaauunuu, home usriia, stranger tiumang, feast utmaau, child kauukuuquu, old one raruu, the place Nganraaii, the beast raqu, the sky aakit. 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 Cold Comfort: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: arctic fox tracks across the wide floe.
- Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: arctic fox tracks across the wide floe.
- Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: four came to Outer Hollow and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the fire-keeper, the keeper of the store, the first who came. kept
- Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: Halvor Sunde called a people to Outer Hollow: the people of Outer Hollow. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Cold Comfort · the ice sheet, 39 m up — the chronicle, kept by Halvor Animals here this month: little that shows. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF COLD COMFORT — 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 uuqniiqaan, river or sea nuunguuvmaam, winter or the rains naminaang, the dead kaauunuu, home usriia, stranger tiumang, feast utmaau, child kauukuuquu, old one raruu, the place Nganraaii, the beast raqu, the sky aakit. 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 Cold Comfort: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: arctic fox tracks across the wide floe. - Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: arctic fox tracks across the wide floe. - Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: four came to Outer Hollow and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the fire-keeper, the keeper of the store, the first who came. [kept] - Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: Halvor Sunde called a people to Outer Hollow: the people of Outer Hollow. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S8225-E17432.txt