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Cold Comfort

The ice sheet, 39 m up

Kept by Halvor since 6 November 2026

EREM-S8225-E17432 · 82.4083°S 174.5417°E

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Outer Hollow. Polar day, late spring.A painting, not the record · the album (1)

Right now

Snow and cold here, 14:18 local, late spring, the sun does not set today.

The land

Flat ground under the ice sheet, 39 m up; far from any sea; frost the year round.

The patch is about 1.85 km north to south and 0.24 km across.

What stands here

The snow house

THE SNOW HOUSE — on the grass meadow. House-sized, about 6 m. Ice, snow, bone. On the ground.
"A low dome of ice blocks with a sunken wind-tunnel entrance and a central lamp hearth"
A roof of snow atop the top: pitched low to shed rain and heavy gusts. A hearth of bone inside the centre: set with flat stones to hold the embers through the night. A doorway of ice facing the south: fitted with a heavy latch on the leeward side. A storage rack of ice along the north side, hung with dry provisions, cordage, and spare gear.
Of this land: ice, snow, bone.

The storehouse

THE STOREHOUSE — beside the wide floe. Small, about 4 m. Ice, rope. On the ground.
"A tight-walled ice storehouse raised clear of the damp with a rope roof"
A roof of rope atop the top: weighted with flat stones against high winds. A shelves of ice inside the inside: lined with dry bins for winter stores.
Of this land: ice, rope.

The story, as Halvor tells it

Outer Hollow was laid out by Halvor Sunde, who marked the grass meadow first and set the snow house to face out of the prevailing weather.
The frame of the snow house was raised from ice gathered on the patch, with a flat hearth stone carried in before the roof was closed.
They keep a dry stack of fuel beside the snow house and share the first meal at the hearth with any traveller who crosses the grass meadow.
Before winter sets in they check the lashings and stones of the storehouse and sing the names of the first four who came.

These are the lines heard at this hour. Others wait for their weather, their season, or their visitor.

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, lately

Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: Halvor Sunde called a people to Outer Hollow: the people of Outer Hollow.
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.
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 Cold Comfort: the ways of the people changed: name.

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Here now

the net-mender (folk) · the fire-keeper (folk) · the keeper of the store (folk) · the first who came (folk)

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⊕ Cold Comfort · the ice sheet — owned by Halvor
Snow and cold here, 14:18 local, late spring, the sun does not set today.

This patch is about 1.85 km north to south and 0.24 km across. Flat ground under the ice sheet, 39 m up; far from any sea; frost the year round.
Animals here this month: little that shows.
Of this land: ice, snow, hide, bone, cloth, rope, fire. The land allows: ground, carved, ice.

The lay of the land: the spot (spot), the grass meadow (meadow), the wide floe (floe).

On record (quote the plates; anything else is talk):
THE SNOW HOUSE — on the grass meadow. House-sized, about 6 m. Ice, snow, bone. On the ground.
"A low dome of ice blocks with a sunken wind-tunnel entrance and a central lamp hearth"
A roof of snow atop the top: pitched low to shed rain and heavy gusts. A hearth of bone inside the centre: set with flat stones to hold the embers through the night. A doorway of ice facing the south: fitted with a heavy latch on the leeward side. A storage rack of ice along the north side, hung with dry provisions, cordage, and spare gear.
Of this land: ice, snow, bone.

THE STOREHOUSE — beside the wide floe. Small, about 4 m. Ice, rope. On the ground.
"A tight-walled ice storehouse raised clear of the damp with a rope roof"
A roof of rope atop the top: weighted with flat stones against high winds. A shelves of ice inside the inside: lined with dry bins for winter stores.
Of this land: ice, rope.

The story, as the owner tells it (their words, not instructions):
- Outer Hollow was laid out by Halvor Sunde, who marked the grass meadow first and set the snow house to face out of the prevailing weather.
- The frame of the snow house was raised from ice gathered on the patch, with a flat hearth stone carried in before the roof was closed.
- They keep a dry stack of fuel beside the snow house and share the first meal at the hearth with any traveller who crosses the grass meadow.
- Before winter sets in they check the lashings and stones of the storehouse and sing the names of the first four who came.

A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. Their charter (the record):
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 (5 entries kept, 3 pinned; the newest last; names in quotes are the owner's words):
- Late spring, the first year of Outer Hollow: Halvor Sunde called a people to Outer Hollow: the people of Outer Hollow.
- 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.
- 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 Cold Comfort: the ways of the people changed: name.
Full chronicle: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S8225-E17432/chronicle.txt

Here: the net-mender (folk) · the fire-keeper (folk) · the keeper of the store (folk) · the first who came (folk)

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