The Caravan at the Ford
Spring of Year 1Traders out of the Verge want passage through your northern woods. Your ranger says the road they'd cut will scar the treeline, and that scars of that kind do not close.
The First Clearingfounding era
What changed
- You hold. Nothing is gained and nothing is lost, and by the thaw that reads as a considerable achievement.Spring of Year 1 · The First ClearingBecause of “Hold what you have”, Spring of Year 1
- Fd the letters are already weatheringSpring of Year 1Because of “Cut a stone, and put your own words on it”, Spring of Year 1
- You cut it badly and slowly, and the last three letters are crowded because you misjudged the space.Spring of Year 1 · The First ClearingBecause of “Cut a stone, and put your own words on it”, Spring of Year 1
- Fd they told someoneSpring of Year 1Because of “Call them in”, Spring of Year 1
- You call across. They come, slowly, and they eat like it has been a while.Spring of Year 1 · The First ClearingBecause of “Call them in”, Spring of Year 1
- Fd it does not sit rightSpring of Year 1Because of “Dig, and find out”, Spring of Year 1
Before you
Leave a mark
The ground remembers differentlyThere is room here for nineteen things done on purpose. What you put down changes which roads, strangers and old stories can find you. It will weather. It will not be removed.
What the nine Marks change
- Stone
- Visitors can read what you cut into it, long after you stop explaining.
- Road
- Travellers and caravans find you more often. In time, the road keeps going.
- Gate
- Arrivals meet your terms first, and learn what they may ask.
- Shrine
- Vows, offerings and the people who make them begin to find this place.
- Grave
- The remembered return in stories, and pilgrims learn the way here.
- Tree / Grove
- It grows into shelter slowly, bringing grove stories as it ages.
- Well
- What lies below gets a way to reach you. Some of it is only water.
- Watchpost
- Warnings arrive earlier when someone is already looking outward.
- Ruinwork
- The broken thing stays underneath. What you build carries it forward.
Nothing here is undone. · read the chronicle of The First Clearing · account