17. To Carpentry

Before building the homestead, it had been years since I had put steel to wood or nail to plank. My skills at carpentry were clearly not what they were before the darkness. Yet my hands slowly and happily remembered how to build. The work comes easily now, and I have made quick progress on the […]

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16. Spring on the Tundra

It is warmer now than I ever imagined possible. Almost overnight the tundra has become abloom with wildflowers, grasses and new buds on old trees. Jötnar has been experimenting with the weather, and this (I believe) is his attempt at breathing new life into the Northern Realm, and it explains the abundance of bees and […]

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15. Tijokaben

After several days in the wild, I have finally tracked the mighty ox. He is indeed immense and in greater health than I had originally feared. He led me through the Black Forest and southward toward the grim mountains. Those mountains are burnt and tarnished with the fell rock, helvetesten, which is scattered like vomit […]

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