I do love the smell of fresh flax on the morning. Investigeting the smell, I've left my cozy burrow and head out to check it out. It was nothing but good old farm, shaped in squares, in a square palisade. Something different from all the circles I previously saw. Good old times. Well, maybe... All those squares make a circle?
The first village I encounter today is called "Echo". The name is adequate I dare to say. It's half-dead and half-alive, depending on which part You currently see. It's like seeing an apple which is in 50% dead and in 50% completely alive. Echo of what it will become in time and echo of what it was back in time, is visible on the hand. Or maybe they just run out of people, that's the possibility too.
On the other hand, some villages don't have enough time to sprout. Just a plain, lone idol, not covering anything precious, just ruins of something that might have been great one day, but did not make it. What or who or when did it happen, that is stopped to be?
Also, sign forest out of nowhere but with graveyard. That gives me some ideas... but those fellas, ain't anymore doing the ice bucket challenge for sure.
There is some people who want to avoid being an average builders or settlers and decide to occupy more difficult areas or less casual ones. I've seen a couple mountain bases, a couple between river camps or a couple swamp shrek villages, where You can fight of the cliffs, but You can't fight that much with terrain itself. They bend their square souls into something beyond squares, like... rectangles! Or circles. Or some kind of misfigured other shapes. I admire your efforts!
Now, since the midge introduction to this nice world, living on swamp or close to rivers seems to be more difficult without a house to hide in. No more sitting in rock chair outside, with just your pipe in mouth and good pipestuff beside, plenty to grab. Maybe I was just lucky to find those black swarms a lot around water, I do not know, but how painfully it is to swim with those on your back!
The first and only rule of hearthland. Don't trust anyone, nor even yourself. Despite that, it's often break, as there are people You can get along with and there are people that You can't get along with. You can't be a friend of everyone, because not everyone must be your friend. How many times I heard russians are bad, polish are bad, never trust brazilian, stab those swedish meatballs and etc., etc.. It all depends, when it comes to people, there's no nationality, it just personality. Going over nationality might separate You from really nice people. On top of that, You never know if that BR? was a BR? indeed...
