The Rikathi
Region: 217
The village of Mjornduth grew with every passing season. What was once a modest farming village where dwarves herded their stocking in rolling fields, now seemed to expand across multiple rolling hillscapes. Grazing lands were allotted out equally and organized for the sake of the shepherds. Pastures with the coveted wildflowers were given special consideration if the shepherd could keep the blossoms from being completely destroyed. The oceanside cliffs were mined for cavernous plants and fungi for the transplanted Myrkrans to use in trade. Mjornduth was thriving.
Ota Beyr Brejna Honorlund sat in her longhouse and counted her blessings, the High Voice placed at her side. The Rikathi women had brought their people into a new era and it was reflecting mightily favorable on them. One notable change was that the local Myrkran now had a councilor seat too, in the second row of the longhouse between two highly regarded Rikathi clothiers.
But with each bountiful harvest must come thorns. A child was born under the gaze of Yølym the Wanderer and now bears a marking. Some in Mjornduth have their opinions on what it means for the Rikathi, while others are happy to ignore the child for better blessings elsewhere. The High Voice has her own thoughts but cannot find footing in her readings to bring about devout confidence in them.
Ota Beyr Brejna put together a band of men and women to head into the western hills. They were tasked with finding the traveling people known as the Seekers and bring them back to Mjornduth and explain the odd starsign. In doing so, the expedition found ever-increasing beauty in the western wildlands and returned with more than just Seeker scholars. They came with word of expansion. Ota Beyr cast down this idea at first, but she saw that a schism was beginning to build again. This time, she was prepared for it and sent out a group including her own grundugr -her second husband- to seek a claim on the lands for the Rikathi people. Also among them were some of the Myrkran that had integrated through marriages into the Rikathi tribe. They took cloth of the flocks, dyes, sea plants, and any of the material the Myrkran could trade away. They were victorious without bloodshed.
The people of the region were poor and not thriving as the Rikathi were. They took part in the trade and took comfort in the idea that the Rikathi had left much of the Myrkran culture alone while still welcoming them in as well. The Rikathi would be protectors, law givers, and help bring them out of the darkness. Upon the diplomatic missions return, the people of Rikathi started to call this newly controlled region the Radiant Valley.
Radiant Valley:
Region: 201
People: Mostly of human descent, it is a smattering of small culturally weak tribes kept at peace by the simple idea that they don't have the resources to war with one another. The Rikathi will bring a representative of each of the tribes back to Mjornduth to help in council. Rikathi are now free to move to Radiant Valley and still remain a part of their heritage, where as before it would have been a shunning or something worse. The mixed Myrkran-Rikathi are hesitant to stretch themselves too thin right this soon after being accepted, and instead opt to remain in Mjornduth.
Landscape: Radiant Valley is a sea of colorful plant life, but like it's neighbor region, most of it isn't edible crop. Instead, the people of the region hunt the deer that feast on the flower and shrubbery. In the distance, mountains can be seen and there's myths about the waters of the peaks falling beneath the mountains and ending up in this valley, resulting in the gorgeous landscape.
Actions:
Investigate the Star Signs (Intrigue) -
Convert Holy Site of Region 201 (Faith) - Success
Seeking Aid (Faith) - Help with Diplomacy Roll
Make Claim on 201 (Diplomacy) (+1 for Rep with Myrkrans) - Success
Raise Reputation with the Myrkran (Diplomacy) -
Raising Rep from 1 to 2 with Org
Non-Actions:
- 1 in Region 217, a Rikathi child, is born with the star sign
+1 to Faith for doing two Faith Actions
+1 to Diplomacy for doing to Diplomacy Actions