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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5239747" data-attributes="member: 92305">-- Quick Reference Guide to Kin Duncohr --The family name is Duncohr, though rarely used, as Cimmerian tradition is to use a person's first name, with or without adding the Clan name. The Clan name is Urrogh (ooh-rah), in your native tongue. Translated, it means the: Blue Fox Clan. The Clan is named for the Cimmeria native blue fox that inhabits the foothills and scrublands around your village. In the Cimmerian tongue, the blue fox is called an urro (er-row). The urro is a sacred animal to many Cimmerians, not just the Blue Foxmen. It is a symbol of animalistic cleverness, agility, and ferocity in battle to many Cimmerians, especially those who inhabit the foothills of the Eiglophian Mountains and those who live on the Hoath Plain. To have urro live in your clan's territory is a great sign of your clan's power and prosperity. The density of the Cimmerian blue fox is greatest in north-central Cimmeria, between the Eiglophian Mountains and the Hoath Plain. Your clanholme, Seven Stones Ridge, lies right in this area, and your clan claims the entire urro grounds. Your village is really a town, founded by your grandfather, Fionn (another way of spelling "Finn"). He is a master smith, and so is the two eldest of his four sons, Finn and Dael. Finn is your father, the town Elder. Seven Stones Ridge, your Clanholme, is named for the circle of seven, 40-45 foot, rune-covered stones that stand not far from the town proper. In the Cimmerian tongue, it is called the prachaun grul (prah-conn-grool). The stones have been there since time immemorial, and most say that Crom defeated seven Titans on this very sacred ground. The Clansmen of the Blue Fox tend to be larger and well-muscled, even for Cimmerians, and it is said that this is true due to the Titan blood seeping into the ground, from which the souls of all Blue Foxmen are sculpted. The Blue Fox Clan is larger than most Cimmerian Clans but smaller than the 18 dominate Clans in the country. Seven Stones, being its only town, is quite prosperous due to the fruit of the Duncohr forge. But, the town has to trade for iron ore, some of its meat, and most of its produce and grain goods. Your immediate family--you Kin--numbers 12 persons, including yourself (there are 9 warriors). -- Kin Duncohr -- Fionn - Fin - Your grandfather. Still spry, and an aging master smith. Founder of your clanholme, Seven Stones Ridge. He curses the Grath for what they did to his wife. (Maeoral - May-or-al - Your grandmother. She died 20 years ago, before you were born, during the Grath Separation.) Finn - Age 57. Your father. Fionn's first son, and named for him by spelling his name differently. He is master of the Duncorh Forge and Seven Stones Town Elder. (Lyme - Lime - No one knew she was carrying twins. None guessed it was really triplets. Branoc was born first, followed by his twin, Caelis. It was then that Padran was found. Stillborn. A dead child in the same womb as the two twins. Lyme suffered for three months, with fever, before she passed some 15 years ago. Some say that Finn released his wife from her misery, but the only one to know the truth of that is Finn himself. Lyme was half Aesir. Her father traded with the Nordheimers for his wife, and all connections of kin with the northrons have been lost in time.)Dael - Dale - Age 50. Your uncle; Your father's brother. A full-time smith, shares the Duncorh Forge with Finn. Brenna, named for her mother, is Dael's only offspring. His wife, Britta, deserted him and their child during the tribulations of the Grath Separation. Eanbotha - Eee-ann-bow-tah - Age 39. Called Ean (Ian) for short, is your uncle and your father's brother. Where Finn is Clan Elder, Ean is War Chief. Ean is a strong and dangerous foe, well respected among the clan. Quiet. Very tall. He's a formidable warrior and a cunning war leader. Finn and Ean respect each other and are unstoppable when they work together, which is much more likely than not. The first winter after the Grath Separation proved to be a time of testing for the people of Seven Stones. Ean, already a formidable warrior, lost his wife and three young girls to the fever. He was 19 years old. And he's never re-married or sired other children since. Eregerth - Air-gert - Age 38. He's your father's youngest brother--your uncle. Seeing clanwar at age 18, Eregerth served the clan with his brothers Finn and Ean, as a warrior watching the roads and clan territory, for a decade as Seven Stones was rebuilt after the Grath Separation. But, 10 years agon, he left the clan to travel south, into the Hyborian lands, selling his skills as a mercenary. Some word of Eregerth has found its way back to the clanholme from time to time, but these mutterings may be just lips flapping in the wind. Branoc, only 5 when Eregerth left, idolizes the missing Foxman, and yearns for the day his uncle will return to his kin, with wild tales of adventure in the south. No reliable word of Eregerth has been heard of the man since he left the Seven Stones, a decade ago. Brenna - Age 23. Your cousin, the only child of Dael, your uncle. Her story is somewhat long. During and after the Grath Separation, a source of iron ore was sought to feed the Duncohr family forge. The Foxmen do not mine, and what iron ore they get, they get from bog mining or trade. A pact was made with the Aesir of Ansuz, a small iron ore mining village in Nordheim, just on the northron side of the Eiglophians. The trade agreement was sealed by the Aesir sending a young warrior, 14 year old Hrathnar to live with the Blue Foxes and marry one of the Clan's women. But, no Foxman family was willing to allow a marriage with an Aesir. The task fell to the Clan's foremost family, the Duncohrs. Brenna's mother, Britta, had deserted Dael during the Separation crisis. Finn had just rescued Drachena, who was aged 5 years at the time. Eregerth was (and remains) childless, and Eanbotha was loathe to release one of his precious girl to the Aesir (though all three would die that winter, victims of the fever). Dice were thrown, and Dael lost. With his only daughter, he pledged young Brenna to Hrathnar to fullfill his duty as Clansmen for the survival of the Clan. Brenna, though was only 3 years of age at the time. Hrathnar would have to wait some years before he could take his bride. Hrathnar (Rath-nar) became a member of Dael's household, ran the Ras Croi, and developed into a seasoned Urrogh warrior. But, as Brenna grew in years, true love sprouted between the two. Hrathnar turned from being a warrior to a smith, apprenticed to Dael. Eight years ago (Your character was 7 years old), Hrathnar (married at 26) and Brenna (married at 15) were married. Today, Hrathnar no longer picks up the sword, but the smith's hammer, working with Dael and Finn. The Aesirman and Brenna have a 6 year old daughter named Freya. The arranged marriage, finally consummated, never yielded fruit in terms of trade between Seven Stones and Ansuz. The yellow-haired northern neighbors were off-put by the Blue Fox Clansmen's un-willingness to mate with their offering, Hrathnar. Today, Hrathnar is 34 and Brenna is 23. Freya is 6. Drachena - Draw-ken-na - Age 25. She's your adopted sister, rescued by your father, Finn, after all her kin were killed during the Grath Separation. Finn made her his first child, before he had sired any by blood, and today remains his only daughter. She is sister to Branoc, Caelis, and Thrallan. Drachena has grown to be as strong as a male clansman. Sometimes, she has been mistaken for a male by strangers to Seven Stones. She is tall, large boned, heavily muscled. She wears her pitch black hair like man would. She has no husband, no lover, and no children. She is accepted amongst the other Blue Fox warriors as one of them, and she has proven her worth more than thrice. Drachena ran the Ras Croi alone as no others were of age. By default, she was the Ar Grais, but a leader of no one. Some of the women in the clan have teased her by calling her the Ar Grais of the womb--the leader of an empty womb. During her deasghnath at age 15, she was discovered by Vanir raiders. The group of them raped her repeatedly and almost killed her, but Finn and his brothers found them first. None of the Vanir were spared. Drachena hates the Vanir with an animalistic passion not seen in most human beings. She fights against other foes with almost the same intensity. Branoc - Age 15. Your brother. Elder of the two twins. Physically powerful but not overly bright. He idolizes his uncle Eregerth and the tales he's heard of his travels among the Hyborians, though he was only five when last he saw him. Caelis - Kay-liss - Age 15. Younger twin to Branoc. Named for one of the Titans defeated by Crom in the battle that took place here. Caelis is light haired and light eyed--some of his Aesir heritage from his mother showing through. (Padran - Stillborn triplet, brother to Branoc and Caelis.) Thrallan - Thral-len - Age 15 or 16 (precise age unknown). On a night of a bright faced moon, Fionn walked the perimeter of the town as Lyme lay sweating, unconscious, dying. It was but a month since Branoc and Caelis were born. Fionn walked past the prachaun grul--the seven rocks that Crom hammered into the ground to serve as headstones to the Titans he had killed on this ground--to find a newborn babe, quiet as a mouse, buffeted up against the tombstone marked for the Titan Thrallan. Finn took the babe into his own home, named him for the Titan's stone where he was found, and even though Thrallan was obviously older Finn's two other sons, considered the new babe the youngest brother to Branoc and Caelis. The mystery of Thrallan's appearance has never been solved, though the boy has grown with the true looks of Cimmerian in him--dark, almost black hair, with hazel, sometimes green, eyes.</blockquote>

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