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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 5785745" data-attributes="member: 40413">Rays of early sun are beginning to streak the sky to the east with gold.  The halfling looks towards the sight and shrugs fatalistically.  "My name is Eneko."  When Sylvain mentions the possibility of great riches Eneko turns and looks at him but remains with a flat expression.  "We've no great wealth such as you expect.  What we couldn't easily carry with us we sent to the bottom of the Ouhm with the boats.  The small portion we take is quickly used or sold to support our small community."With a splash Sekmun pulls himself up onto the ship.  He eyes the halfling like someone looking at his dinner plate before swinging his gaze to Borric.  "My opinion on what?"Eneko gasps at Sekmuns sudden appearance.  "You are in league with the grayscales!"<a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/sekmun.jpg/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/6578/sekmun.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>[sblock=Zelenas knowledge checks]Religion: Zelena knows little of the Tal cults and certainly less than what Sylvain has already mentioned about them being small cultic centers surrounding local nature spirits revered as gods.  In the recorded history on EN, halflings have always had an affinity for water gods and spirits.History: Zelena's lack of religious knowledge about the Tal cults may be because the cult of Tal Hollow was wiped out during the pogroms enacted by the necromancer that controlled her homeland for so long.  Also, most gnomes of her homeland have always readily recognized the spirits for what they are and have had strong ties to their pantheon of gods.In local history, tales of pirate activity have been told along the Ouhm and elsewhere for as long as anyone living can remember.  It is interesting to note that the River Lords have taken little or no action to stop the pirates from raiding travelers and only once has a king along the Ouhm raised a force to eradicate the pirates.  That force never returned to their city and the city eventually withered and was lost to the Ouhm.Local: The Ouhm River Trading Guild complains the loudest about pirate activity as their merchants and captains work up and down the entirety of the Ouhm River and take the greatest losses.Geography: This region is predominantly swampland with the best sites already settled by K'issp, Hruthrip, and Gist.  Small settlements dot the banks of the Ouhm but all of them are small and racially mixed with none that Zelena knows of being dominated by halflings.  The halflings don't seem to be claiming any territory except for the waters of the Ouhm which is extensive.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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