| Sea Season Skorri and
Blunt send an expedition to scout out a new homeland. The party led by Skerri
Brightspear travels north to negotiate passage through Lonisi, Brown Boar and Balmyri
lands. A faction of the
Lonisi ask to join the Amber Clan. They are welcomed with opened arms.
Another group led by Angorri Farnanson, trader of the Talking God
and made up of Ashart Bolison, Dagbjartr Haukson, and Ferena Unasdaughter, six fyrd men,
three Issaries initiates and two hunters goes to Smithstone to purchase supplies.
There they meet and battle the followers of a
Heortling knight Sir Withal and take the supplies that they had purchased for the Pharoah.
The scouting party meets with the Brown Boars who refuse to allow
passage to the Amberi unless they agree to either fight them or go on a raid with them
against the Lonisi or uz. Skerri is forced to
agree to a raid against the uz.
The main body of the Amberi travels to Lonisi lands where they adopt
the Elmali. Then they travel on to meet with the Brown Boars and agree to a raid on
a uz village. The raid is a great success
and the Brown Boars are pleased.
Fire Season The scouting party heads north and after a battle with the Horsespawn meet
with and negotiate passage through Balmyri lands. The main body of the Amberi defeat Red Kare and his raiders.
Balmyri treachery is discovered
and the Amberi are forced to head southeast instead into unknown territory.
Earth Season Under pressure from the Women's circle
Blunt finally agrees to set aside his year wife Skerri Brightspear in favour of a proper Ernaldi wife.
The bard Aski Askison composes a song he calls Skerri's Needle which
he performs for no one. Somehow however the song is heard and starts spreading among
the young men who are disappointed with Blunt's leadership. Blunt and the ring
demand that he stop singing the song and he professes his innocence. The bard is
fined three cows by the ring. An attempt to ban the song is met with ridicule and
four assailants attack the bard beating him severely. He identifies one
of his attackers as Oddi Four-scars, one of Blunt's weaponstorms. Blunt refuses to
exile the weaponstorms and offers compensation instead. The bard refuses and leaves
the tula vowing to never return.
A scouting party sets off to explore the western part of the valley
where they encounter chaos blobs intervene in a battle against some broos and meet some
Orlanthi inhabitants of the western end of the valley. (See Episode 2 : Here We Stand
and Here We Stay : Scene 1 : Meeting the Neighbours). The scouting party returns
with the Black Rock chief and some of his followers to negotiate an alliance.
The wedding party leaves Torkani
lands have successfully completed their mission and headed home. Along the way
Thorgunna Brynhildsdaughter starts having dreams
about a river somewhere. These dreams are exceptionally vivid and sap her strength.
The wedding party also encounters Aski Askison on the road. They hear his
story and learn that he had been attacked and severely beaten the same day he had left the
tula. They convince him to return to seek justice under their protection (See Episode 2
: Here We Stand and Here We Stay : Scene 2 : Here Comes the Bride?). Finally
just before the end of Earth Season they return to the tula.
As Thorgunna nears the vale the
Sounder River becomes more and more unsettled and dangerous tearing away at the bank and
any living things that approach it. A carl loses some cattle to the river and
initiates a law suit against it. The river's violence peaks when Thorgunna enters
the vale but settles immediately when Enerin the Kind puts Thorgunna into a deep sleep.
Iskalli Endalson and his Elmali
bloodline start construction of their own stead to the east of Blunt's stead during the
middle of the season. They have lots of problems with broos who seem strangely
disciplined for broos.
Dark Season Skeli
Redbeard uses his magic to determine who attacked the bard and learns that it was a gang
of broos. Blunt and Aski settle their differences but Aski stays in Skerri's
household instead of his.
A group of Praxian Storm Bulls who
visit the valley every year at this time make the rounds to collect their tribute from the
Water People. The clan manages to keep relations between the groups pleasant and the
Storm Bulls offer to leave the valley to their guardianship IF they can prove that they
are capable of protecting it from chaos. They decide to hang around until the Amberi
can prove this.
The Black Rock delegation meanwhile
has been present for weeks trying to negotiate who gets what.
Blunt decides to send most of the
fyrd to help Iskalli and the bulk of the warriors head east to do so. They decide to
block off the broos caves in the hills to the north of the stead and fight one large
battle with the broos that sees them emerge unscratched havng wiped the broos out.
The clan finally decides what to do
with the Water People, forcibly resettling them to the east of the tula nearer to Prax.
They also decide to leave the ruined
stead that formerly belonged to the Black Rock clan in their hands and offer military
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