EremoterraThe chronicle of Cold Slate
The ice sheet, 1542 m up, kept by evander
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 SLATE — 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 tiikuu, river or sea uuknung, winter or the rains saaiima, the dead aruulnii, home utkaa, stranger saangmaammaang, feast ngiiaakiim, child saangngang, old one ngaaitiituu, the place Qinilaa, the beast ankaa, the sky limngaqu. 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 Slate: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late spring, the first year of Slate Shelf Watch: arctic fox tracks across the spot.
- Late spring, the first year of Slate Shelf Watch: arctic fox tracks across the spot.
- Late spring, the first year of Slate Shelf Watch: four came to Slate Shelf Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the fire-keeper, the watcher, the lamp-lighter. kept
- Late spring, the first year of Slate Shelf Watch: Evander Cole called a people to Slate Shelf Watch: the people of Slate Shelf Watch. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Cold Slate · the ice sheet, 1542 m up — the chronicle, kept by evander Animals here this month: little that shows. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF COLD SLATE — 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 tiikuu, river or sea uuknung, winter or the rains saaiima, the dead aruulnii, home utkaa, stranger saangmaammaang, feast ngiiaakiim, child saangngang, old one ngaaitiituu, the place Qinilaa, the beast ankaa, the sky limngaqu. 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 Slate: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late spring, the first year of Slate Shelf Watch: arctic fox tracks across the spot. - Late spring, the first year of Slate Shelf Watch: arctic fox tracks across the spot. - Late spring, the first year of Slate Shelf Watch: four came to Slate Shelf Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the fire-keeper, the watcher, the lamp-lighter. [kept] - Late spring, the first year of Slate Shelf Watch: Evander Cole called a people to Slate Shelf Watch: the people of Slate Shelf Watch. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S8555-W07214.txt