STEAD BACKGROUND: Kickstarting the creativity

From: John Hughes <nysalor_at__kvUzi1JNo1K1p_8F2sbQG9yaLGP1epy6N7EEBwEYZMDQ6ouEs-_z94pnZ816Y54S5jm>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:50:50 +1000


Folks

This is intended as a draft to illicit creative feedback and to further expand our stead background. Nothing in this draft is fixed. Please comment, with reactions, name changes and additions. I will scribe the feedback and put this on the website in a week or so, for final adjudication by Bryan.

If you have additional background factoids (Michael your more detailed clangen temple material etc) please do them up in a succinct paragraph format and post them for inclusion.

Cheers!

John

Stormsteads web site: http://home.iprimus.com.au/pipnjim/stead/stead.html

STEAD BACKGROUND - THE THUNDER CLAN Favoured Terrain: Hills.

Fortress: Ancient Fort.

Sacred Center: Standing Stone.

Tula Size: 200 Hides.

Economic Specialty: Grain.
(Swenstead itself specialises in sheep).

Land Use
Grain: 80 Hides.
Livestock: 60 Hides.
Hunting: 60 Hides.

Population
Total: 1150.
Adults: 575.
Weaponthanes: 9.
Fyrd: 345.

Goals
Primary: Justice, Peace.
Secondary: Anti-Lunar.

Values
Primary: Tradition.
Secondary: Caution, Loyalty.

The sacred mountains stretch to the sky in the distance; these include RAINY PEAK, eternally shrouded in blue-grey storm cloud, and THE THREE WARRIORS, where we graze our herds each summer.

Then the MISTY HILLS, with their forests and raging streams, wherein is found Swenstead, on the banks of WHITEWATER.

Then HERD VALLEY and the lowlands, rich with grain, where most of our clan, the Thunder Clan, lives.

Other important natural and magical features in the landscape are:

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We are the THUNDER clan. Our neighbours are the no-good WOLF Clan who live on Rotroot Flats, with whom we have many law suits, the Lunar-loving BOAR Clan, with whom we maintain an uneasy truce, and our strong friends and allies the OAK Clan. We also have good friends from the far side of Rainy Peak, the TURTLE and the HAIL HAWK clans (of another tribe). We often see them during our summer grazing, and have always married their daughters, and they ours.

The Uz of the DARKWEB are our allies from ancient times, they live beneath the DRUMSTONES to the south of the THREE WARRIORS. Like us, the Zorak Zorani of the Burning Lead clan are their enemies.

The FIRE TRIBE of the distant north hate us, and send heroquesters armed with strange magic. Heler knows the secrets to quench their destructive fires, and Vingkot defends us with fighting strength, and so we remain strong.

HORSESPAWN often raid the valley steads in Fire Season, so the fyrd gathers there to defend the clan.

Zorak Zoran UZ raid in Earth and Dark Season from the BURNING LEAD clan, and CHAOS can erupt from BADFALL BEND, which is south of the sacred Rainy Peak.


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 The main steads of our clan are SWENSTEAD and RUNNING HORSE STEAD, in the hills, HARVESTSTONE, BROKEN-SPEAR and GRAINGIFT steads in the valleys, and THUNDER ROCK, our ancestral stead and market, which is at the valley mouth on the main road to the CITY.

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 CLAN GODS & HEROES: 

Temple: Orlanth/Barntar/Vingkot.
Shrine: Ernalda/Uralda.
Shrine: Heler (located at Swenstead).

Swen the Founder, who allied the spirit of the Whitewater.

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 CLAN RUNE:
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 THE CLAN RING: Orlanth the Storm - Torvath Many-Cows - Initiate of Dar the Chieftain. Clan Chieftain.
Ernalda the Earth - Rana Twice-Matched - Devotee of Vela the Queen. First Priestess.
Ormalaya the Hunter - Errol Silent-Step - Devotee of Hevren the Chaser. Poveri the Fisherman - Koreng the Boat - Initiate of Poverri the Fisherman. Uralda the Cow - Lyzal Unbending - Initiate of Uralda Herd Mother. Barntar the Farmer - Orlav Steady-Hand - Initiate of Barntar Ploughson. Heler the Healing Rain - Iskalli The Gentle - Initiate of Yuhurol the Golden Ram.

OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Dorasor Storm Brow - Initiate of Ohorlanth the Great Storm. Bloodline Elder. Beneva Loam-Rich - Devotee of Kev the Visionary. Second Priestess. Saranorl Farwatcher- Devotee of Vingkot Victorious. Clan Champion. Orendal Iron-Spear - Humakti Disciple of Kargan the Warrior. Renartha Silver Key - Initiate of Vorela the Animal Healer. Baranthos the Pole-Ladder - Devotee of Durev the Householder. Bloodline Elder.
Kulbrast High Meadow - Initiate of Orolmarn the Shepherd. Garli Bear Tooth Master Hunter of Ormalaya the Deep Hunter.

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Trader?
Lawspeaker?

(I will post descriptions of these people to the website later this week).

LOCAL FEATURES:
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 STEAD POPULATION: Numbers: ??????

BLOODLINES: There are two major bloodlines at Swenstead, the SWEN bloodline and the HUNTING BROTHERS bloodline. There is also a minor hearth for the ROCKPLOUGH bloodline, and a hearth sometimes used by visitors of the HERO heroband.

The major bloodlines within the clan as a whole are the ROCKPLOUGH, the RAIN CATTLE and the SILVER OAKS.

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 STEAD PRODUCE & RESOURCES:
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 MAJOR BUILDINGS:
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 IMPORTANT PEOPLE AT THE STEAD: Koreng the Boat (description at web site) Iskalli the Helerite (description at web site)

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 OTHER IMPORTANT BACKGROUND INFORMATION?            

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