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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6065018" data-attributes="member: 92305">When times are lean, the Aesir, like the Cimmerians, resort to raiding.  They raid for cattle/chickens/pigs/goats, women, maybe the occasional horse or mule (there are few in the area--those that are there are prized).The weapons the Aesir get from the Cimmerian village are superior to what they can make on their own.  They have the ore--just not the Cimmerian "secret of steel".  So what is brought back from the trip every two or three years is prized.The Aesir are far enough away that the Cimmerians can give them their best stuff without fear of the blade falling into the hands of their enemies.Who knows....maybe the Aesir trade with a few other clans as well for other types of goods.In the campaign, the Aesir, after the new clan was established, sent along a young boy, 13 years old, to live among the Cimmerians.  The boy was reluctantly accepted, but the Cimmerians did not send one of their own as the Aesir expected.  This was not taken well, but it such a journey across the mountain, not made lightly, that the boy stayed among the Foxmen.  Today, he's a major NPC, this yellow-hair raised half Aesir and half Cimmerian.Few other clans--none that the PCs have encountered so far in the campaign--have been able to turn out the quality of steel that is produced on the Duncohr Forge.  The symbol, a celtic-looking knot, is placed on every top-quality blade that comes off the Foxman forge.  This symbol, in Cimmerian, is the Xean (Zeen), and in a Hyborian tongue would translate to "sunlight" or "sunshine" (or, more specifically, the brightness caused by the sun--which really has no direct translation).The Xean...[ATTACH]55765[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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