Master Storyteller Digitalia Foxglove
Diplomacy: 5 – Military: 3 – Industry: 1 – Faith: 1 – Intrigue: 4
Capital: The Greywood Coast (415) – Round 4
Actions:
1. Diplomacy – Attend the Horned Feast in Caler Myrfddin.
- Trade Animal Husbandry to COW for Markets and Carts
- Trade Animal Husbandry to RAW for Tall Sails
- Trade Animal Husbandry to TAN for Irrigation
- Trade Animal Husbandry to BBB for Poetry and Prose
2. Diplomacy 5 – Establish the Witchwood Grove of greywood pines in Tir Buwch (an Embassy).
Amongst the revelry, foreign races, and strange customs of the Horned Feast, it is comforting to find that Hefon and Afon worship our same goddesses, even if their names and domains are slightly unorthodox. The resident Storytellers of the Witchwood Grove will ensure that Tir Buwch's history is carved in beautiful Story, just as Sypressa's is.
3. Diplomacy – Help build the Disciple Forbidden Vault in Ruin, Rise, and Redemption (Region 130). +1 favor with the Disciples of Silicon when the Vault is completed
4. Diplomacy – Raise reputation with the Seekers of the Spheres. 7
5. Military – Raise a unit.
6. Military – Raise a unit.
Non-Actions:
A. Change rulers non-dynastically. Stat growths: +2 Dip, +1 Mil. Non-dynastic succession: +1 to any two attributes.
Salvia Rosemary: 4+2 Diplomacy, 3+2 Military, 2 Industry, 4+1 Faith, 2 Intrigue
B. The villages of the Greywood Coast dance, drink, and make merry to celebrate the fated meeting of Alyta, the wanderer, and Yrona, the goddess of fortune. +1 favor with the Seekers of the Spheres
In the oldest Grove, where the Story of Sypressa is carved upon the largest greywood pine in the realm, Foxglove narrates the well-worn fable of Alyta's legendary travels to a crowd of Sypressan wood elves and humans. In the traditional version of the epic, Alyta encounters the four other goddesses on her journey sequentially. Each offers her a challenge and a reward. Tonight, the tale of Alyta's meeting with Yrona is told a hundred times in a hundred different ways in a hundred Groves by a hundred Storytellers.
After the story, festival-goers hang the greywood pinecones that they laboriously retrieved from the tallest branches hundreds of feet above the forest floor upon the blue-grey thread wrapped around the pillars and pines of Alyta's temples. Tomorrow they shall be burnt in the village hearth for luck, but tonight Yrona's elusive good fortune belongs to Alyta.
Fiddles, flutes, and fine voices guide dancing feet and soaring spirits. Meads flows generously, and bakers stain their traditional honey-glazed festival buns with plum juice to mimic the color of Yrona's moon, the Winding Rose. Surely, this serendipitous meeting of the goddesses is a herald of blessings to come, and so Sypressans celebrate.
C. In a small craggy Grove of greywoods belonging to a coastal village, the child Artemisia Tarragon is born with a Greater Star Sign. A constellation branches out into the familiar shape of pine tree growing up her spine. Accepting Foxglove's offer to personally train the child, her family moves deeper into the forest to be closer to the elder Groves.
News and Rumors:
- Enterprising adventuress Matilda of Tancourt is welcomed with cheer upon reaching a small village in the Greywood Coast's eastern reaches. Her likeness is carved into the village's Story in short order, while a local farmer parts with a breeding pair of domesticated iridescent swans for her to take back to Tancourt as a gift.
Records Carved:
Units: 0/6
Navy: 0/3
Treasure: 0/5
Groves, Debts, and Treaties:
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The Witchwood Grove in Tir Buwch (COW) - newly planted
- COW pledges to trade Bricks and Mortar to SYP in Round 5