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Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
Adventurer Rognvaldr Jonsson is making the rounds of the taverns, trying to raise skatt for a dragonslaying expedition. He’s carrying the scorched talon of a dragon he claims he wounded…
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…two months ago, somewhere in “remote Hibernia.” He hewed the talon from “the claw that was seeking to slay me,” and it’s an impressive thing: a curving nail as long as a tall man stands. Rognvaldr says the wyrm…
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…lairs in a cavern “full of gold,” and investors will all get “a helm-full, or more, each” if he can kill the dragon. Seithkona and galdrs may get more: ichor and scales and more from the wyrm itself, with…
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Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
Word is racing around the taverns of a very curious event that happened just before dusk last night. A roofer hastening to get down at the end of a long workday slipped and fell from a…
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…scaffold, plunging four floors to his—disappearance, into thin air, a scant instant before he would have splatteringly greeted the hard cobbles. He vanished in mid-despairing cry, suggesting that whatever magic…
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…snatched him away not only wasn’t his, but that it took him completely by surprise.
So whose was it? Fey mischief? Some guardian seithkona or galdr or godi? Or…someone else?
SomeTHING else?
And again: why?
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Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
Barekr Hroaldsson, a maker of statues newly arrived in the city from Gotaland, says six larger-than-man-sized statues were stolen from his workshop last night. Talk in the taverns is…
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…leaning towards evil effigy-enchanters taking them to turn them into guardian effigies for sale to wealthy and fearful citizens, to safeguard their valuables and grand houses. Some say that King’s soldiers were…
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…seen at the workshop that night. Disguised thieves, or were the statues taken for the King, so he can experiment with effigies?
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Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
“Old Cunning” Flann was a wizened Hibernian merchant of unknown but great age and legendary wiles, notorious for his swindles and financial successes. Ere the Norse came to Ath Cliath, …
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…Flann had risen to become the largest landlord in the city, though he was still usually to be found in his “boneyard” or walled compound of high-heaped old junk salvaged for resale, as filthy as ever.
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After the One-Eyed King took the throne, Flann sold up, slowly and carefuilly disposing of his city properties at high prices. So when he died some days back, in his bed and apparently of old age, some folk…
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Meanwhile, in Ath Cliath…
A man was killed at the bridge construction site today when a crane, suddenly relieved of its load of building-timbers, briefly became a “teeter-hurler” and catapulted him from his crane…
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…unloader’s perch atop the crane across the rooftops of the city. He crashed onto the roof of a building and was “smashed like a hurled egg” against it. Much to the astonished displeasure of the occupant of…
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…the attic right under his landing-spot. Who after a raging tirade, has been drinking steadily ever since. The King’s soldiers haven’t yet released the name of the dead unloader.
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Hrodgeirr Ivarsson, who lives in rented upper rooms on the Irongate, has begun a “deadcart” service, transporting deceased citizens east out of the city for temple burial, for a fee.
His business has seen a…
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…sudden surge in popularity, and now word is spreading that still-bleeding, freshly murdered corpses have been transported by Hrodgeirr only as far as the bridge over the Black Pool, where he’s given them to the…
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…tide to take away. He denies this, but his wagon is now being thoroughly searched as it departs the gate, and some have taken to calling him “the Old Crow.” The latest rumor is that his dirt-removal service…
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