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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6020622" data-attributes="member: 92305">02 - THE JOURNEY OF CIAN McDOWD   My name is Cian McDowd, and I am a warrior of the Blue Fox clan. We are mountain people, scratching a living from the cold, hard earth at the base of the Eiglophians. Have you heard of Seven Stones Ridge? You have? Yes, my clanholme lies in the foothills of north-central Cimmeria. The village grew up around the Duncohr forge. We sometimes trade our steel just as the Grath proffer their fish and the clan of the Ox barters its lumber. But, we're not miners. Noesir. We don't dig in the earth. It is for this reason that I have traveled 75 days journey into baren bleakness most call Nordheim. The mines of Ansuz are known to the smiths for the purity of its product. Two or three generations past, the Duncohrs made an agreement with those miners. Ever since that day, the Aesir traders make a yearly trek to Seven Stones Ridge laden with carts of raw ore. On their return, their load is of finished steel and iron goods ordered the year before. Every one in three years, the Foxmen send a party to the Aesir village in order to keep the alliance strong. This is the year of three. Just after the Lughnasa, Hrathnar led us out of the foothills while the rest of our kinsmen toiled with the harvest. Through the pass, we went, the four of us, on horseback, to the north side of the mountain.  Dahkus and Brial completed the party. We wintered with the yellowhairs, but when it came time to depart, I told Hrathnar that I would stay, for a bit. He held my gaze for a long moment, then simply agreed.  He understood.  Both Dahkus and Brial exploded with protests. Neither liked me much. But, Hrathnar just held up his hand. That's all it took to silence them. There was no reason to keep arguing the point. The decision was made.  <img src="http://cfile233.uf.daum.net/image/2046BC3E4DDA3D2C23F1EE" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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