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<blockquote data-quote="Orichalcum" data-source="post: 877429" data-attributes="member: 3722"><p><strong>First Session: Eagle's Flight Seventh Post: Wolves and Foxes and Eagles, oh my!</strong></p><p></p><p>Darting out of the cave and into the firelight comes a man wearing</p><p>an elaborate wolf mask. I gibber in terror until Meloch persuades me that it isn’t a real wolf. His body is painted, and a wolf-tail swings behind him. He is followed by three maidens and a youth, each clutching a spear, each of whose faces has been elaborately painted to resemble a wolf. One section of the assembled crowd cheers and howls. The five dance around the fire, and finally the wolf-masked man bounds directly through the flames. For an instant, he seems almost to be a wolf within the fire, although the effect quickly fades as the group moves to one side. </p><p></p><p>They are followed by a woman wearing the mask of a mountain lion, with four young warriors painted similarly. They too, dance, prowling the night and batting at the sparks of the fire, until she leaps over the fire and seems to be a lioness for an instant. They are followed by a owl-masked woman, with four New Spears at her side, a bull-masked man with giant horns which almost grow out of his scalp, and a fox-masked woman, whose eyes gleam brightly behind her mask and whose followers sport fox tails. </p><p></p><p> Then, a woman whose mask is made entirely out of eagle-feathers leaps over the vertical standing stone itself and glides over the fire. In her arms, she carries a battered but recognizable Roman Eagle. Its wings are gone, and its face and body is covered with runes in blue woad paint, but Alexandros knows in his heart and in the warm brooch he wears that it is his long-lost standard. As the Eagle-woman hovers and dances, they can see that the wings of the Eagle are attached to her cloak.</p><p></p><p> Cornelia, meanwhile, and the others have counted the new warriors</p><p>- twenty-four. She and Meloch search anxiously for the face of the last and slowest runner, but cannot find her. At this moment, a final figure, with a mask that seems both animalian and fantastical, with eagle and owl feathers, the whiskers of a lion, the nose of a fox, the ears of a wolf,</p><p>and the horns of a bull, steps on top of the standing stone itself. The crowd quiets, murmuring, "Aeduana." Aeduana proclaims that the Oeunikones have 24 brave new warriors to welcome to the tribe, and that tonight is a time of celebration and rejoicing. For tomorrow, she adds, will begin the preparations for a spring war against the foul Romans who have besmirched their lands. At this, the Legionaries huddle underneath their cloaks.</p><p></p><p> The gathering breaks out into celebration, eating, and dancing.</p><p>Cornelia and Meloch follow one couple, who do not seem to be rejoicing, as they walk slowly down the hill. Although they try to find out what</p><p>grieves them, they are answered only with stoic remarks that the couple, unlike the others on the hillside, has no brave warrior to honor this night. Cornelia sends Cato the owl fluttering after the grieving parents as they return home for a night of prayer. I take the opportunity to enjoy myself back at the celebration, without that annoyingly serious owl for once.</p><p></p><p> Meloch and I entertain the crowd with our elaborate juggling tricks and dancing sparks, somewhat to the disgruntlement of the six masked figures, whose dancing is rendered less prominent. Not my fault if they can’t swing by their tails. The others roam through the crowd, listening to conversations. They hear several mentions of the minor Chieftain Edric, of the Fox Clan. Eventually, Cornelia manages to speak to Edric, who is drumming up support for the forthcoming war effort against the Romans. He speaks boastfully of having been first in the charge against the Roman fortifications, seven years ago. Through talking to other, increasingly drunk Oeunikones, the party finds out also that Edric only joined the Ouenikones seven years ago, shortly before the attack. Heilyn, after listening to him for a while, concludes from his accent that he was originally of the Brigantes tribe, the assimilated tribe whose lands lie near Eburacum. Wena finds out that the tribes consider the Eagle to be a stolen Roman god, sacred to all the clans of the Ouenikones, not just the Eagle clan.</p><p></p><p> The celebration gradually begins to die down, and finally, Aeduana</p><p>announces that it is time for it to end. She reminds the assembled that, at dawn, she will meet the twenty-four New Spears in front of the Great Hall, in the village itself, and will lead them north, that they may have further training among the Great Spirits of the northern lands. Heilyn ponders what this may mean, and reflects that these are certainly spirits he would rather not meet himself. The six clan Druids will also meet their clans at dawn at the Great Hall, so that they may escort them back to their own lands in safety.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orichalcum, post: 877429, member: 3722"] [b]First Session: Eagle's Flight Seventh Post: Wolves and Foxes and Eagles, oh my![/b] Darting out of the cave and into the firelight comes a man wearing an elaborate wolf mask. I gibber in terror until Meloch persuades me that it isn’t a real wolf. His body is painted, and a wolf-tail swings behind him. He is followed by three maidens and a youth, each clutching a spear, each of whose faces has been elaborately painted to resemble a wolf. One section of the assembled crowd cheers and howls. The five dance around the fire, and finally the wolf-masked man bounds directly through the flames. For an instant, he seems almost to be a wolf within the fire, although the effect quickly fades as the group moves to one side. They are followed by a woman wearing the mask of a mountain lion, with four young warriors painted similarly. They too, dance, prowling the night and batting at the sparks of the fire, until she leaps over the fire and seems to be a lioness for an instant. They are followed by a owl-masked woman, with four New Spears at her side, a bull-masked man with giant horns which almost grow out of his scalp, and a fox-masked woman, whose eyes gleam brightly behind her mask and whose followers sport fox tails. Then, a woman whose mask is made entirely out of eagle-feathers leaps over the vertical standing stone itself and glides over the fire. In her arms, she carries a battered but recognizable Roman Eagle. Its wings are gone, and its face and body is covered with runes in blue woad paint, but Alexandros knows in his heart and in the warm brooch he wears that it is his long-lost standard. As the Eagle-woman hovers and dances, they can see that the wings of the Eagle are attached to her cloak. Cornelia, meanwhile, and the others have counted the new warriors - twenty-four. She and Meloch search anxiously for the face of the last and slowest runner, but cannot find her. At this moment, a final figure, with a mask that seems both animalian and fantastical, with eagle and owl feathers, the whiskers of a lion, the nose of a fox, the ears of a wolf, and the horns of a bull, steps on top of the standing stone itself. The crowd quiets, murmuring, "Aeduana." Aeduana proclaims that the Oeunikones have 24 brave new warriors to welcome to the tribe, and that tonight is a time of celebration and rejoicing. For tomorrow, she adds, will begin the preparations for a spring war against the foul Romans who have besmirched their lands. At this, the Legionaries huddle underneath their cloaks. The gathering breaks out into celebration, eating, and dancing. Cornelia and Meloch follow one couple, who do not seem to be rejoicing, as they walk slowly down the hill. Although they try to find out what grieves them, they are answered only with stoic remarks that the couple, unlike the others on the hillside, has no brave warrior to honor this night. Cornelia sends Cato the owl fluttering after the grieving parents as they return home for a night of prayer. I take the opportunity to enjoy myself back at the celebration, without that annoyingly serious owl for once. Meloch and I entertain the crowd with our elaborate juggling tricks and dancing sparks, somewhat to the disgruntlement of the six masked figures, whose dancing is rendered less prominent. Not my fault if they can’t swing by their tails. The others roam through the crowd, listening to conversations. They hear several mentions of the minor Chieftain Edric, of the Fox Clan. Eventually, Cornelia manages to speak to Edric, who is drumming up support for the forthcoming war effort against the Romans. He speaks boastfully of having been first in the charge against the Roman fortifications, seven years ago. Through talking to other, increasingly drunk Oeunikones, the party finds out also that Edric only joined the Ouenikones seven years ago, shortly before the attack. Heilyn, after listening to him for a while, concludes from his accent that he was originally of the Brigantes tribe, the assimilated tribe whose lands lie near Eburacum. Wena finds out that the tribes consider the Eagle to be a stolen Roman god, sacred to all the clans of the Ouenikones, not just the Eagle clan. The celebration gradually begins to die down, and finally, Aeduana announces that it is time for it to end. She reminds the assembled that, at dawn, she will meet the twenty-four New Spears in front of the Great Hall, in the village itself, and will lead them north, that they may have further training among the Great Spirits of the northern lands. Heilyn ponders what this may mean, and reflects that these are certainly spirits he would rather not meet himself. The six clan Druids will also meet their clans at dawn at the Great Hall, so that they may escort them back to their own lands in safety. [/QUOTE]
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