![]() ![]() The story Volkof's ancestor told is reproduced below, exactly as Volkof learned it from their teacher. The tales of the Varushkan story-tellers are rich and fanciful, intended to entertain as much as inform, but many learn their craft by memorizing these stories word for word. ![]() Eventually she was well enough to leave, and on the final day the Feni told her a story, one they claimed was their own story and told of how they fled the waters that swallowed the land and came to live in the Forests of Alderly. In desperation she promised the Feni a story fit for a king if they would spare her life.Įach night the story-teller would recount a story of the wild places of Varushka, and in return the Feni slowly nursed the woman back to strength. The raiders took everything they had, leaving this ancestor so badly wounded she feared she might die. According to them, once of their ancestors was travelling through the forests of Mournwold over a hundred years ago, when they were attacked by Feni. Volkof is a well-travelled Varushkan member of the Department and an experienced storyteller. 2.2 The Tale of the Giant of Craven Rockīut there is a member of the Department who claims to know an old story that might help.The Department has checked every record and history book they can find, but there is nothing in Imperial lore that might shed new light on their presence in Bregasland. If there was a time when their history here was important, it must have been a long time ago, before the Empire was born. There have always been feni in the marshes, tight-lipped and insular and keen to avoid the Marchers, but they were never many in number. There are no records in the Empire of the Feni and orcs in Bregasland, or the "sinking" of the territory. Overviewĭuring the Autumn Equinox 384YE, Watt of Lambrook the Imperial Advisor for the Feni instructed the Department of Historical Research to research " the history of Feni and orcs in Bregasland, their links to the Rushring Stones, and the "sinking" of the territory." During the investigation, one of the newer members of the Department - a Marcher named Mary Reader - came into possession of a scroll of peculiar provenance that appears only tangentially connected to the question of Bregasland's "sinking" but is included here for completeness. It is a place of small islands of abundantly fertile soil, surrounded by seemingly endless marshes where eels are caught. Bregasland, home to the "Bregas" fenlanders, is primarily made up of freshwater fenland.
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