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Roundstone Hills

These are the hills of the Roundstone Clan lands:

Four Sisters

The Four Sisters are the landscape daemons of the four hills called the Four Sisters south of Noble. People in Roundstone knew them long ago but they were forgotten again until 1616 when Big Ernaldesta found them. Now people from Noble go to ask for their blessing again and sacrifice to each of them on Clay Day, Fertility Week, Dark Season each year so that they the Aldryami won’t come again to the tula.  On this day four women or girls from Noble walk around the four hills, light a fire, and make a sacrifice of stored grain on each. With the right ceremony and sacrifice each will also use her blessing feat for the worshipper. When they appear they look like beautiful women with clothes and eyes the colour of the landscape on the hills in the season they are seen.

Asranda the First Sister

Asranda is the daemon of the high hill which if furthest west. It is heavily wooded and is steep.

Asranda	Fertility Blessing,
Traits	Kind, Forgiving, Charming, Attractive, Detatched

Maerida the Second Sister

Maerida is the daemon of the next steep wooded hill moving east.

Maerida	Hiding Blessing,
Traits	Cautious, Shy, Worried, Attractive, Detatched

Uranda the Third Sister

Uranda's hill is small but steep. It lies near the village of Two Birch.

Uranda	Find Lost Object Blessing, Find Hidden Object Blessing
Traits	Jelous, Suspicious, Unpredicatable, Attractive, Detatched

Lerida the Fourth Sister

Lerida's hill is the highest of the four and lies in the south beyond the village of High Wood.

Lerida	Resist Wasting Sickness, Resist Creeping Chills
Traits	Careful, Calm, Certain, Detatched

  

 

 

 

 

Witness

Witness is a stream which runs from an icy corrie on Four Horn Hill to join the Anvil Brook near the village of Old Spear. It is a swift, icy-cold, rocky stream with many small waterfalls and runs through a narrow wooded valley. Witness was once a servant of Heler. When Ui fought Heler for the final time she witnessed the icy touch which left Heler frozen in the sky and fled away up the hill but she too was caught and frozen into a lake of ice. She did not melt and begin to move again until Heler freed her at the Dawn. Even so the water of the stream is still always colder than any other stream in the area and the lake and the stream still freezes solid in Dark Season. People, especially worshippers of Heler sacrifice to her on Waterday, Movement Week, Dark Season when they hope that the hot blood of a sheep will help her to move again. If she is seen she is a young woman with blue -white skin and hair who walks along the stream. In Dark Season she can be seen frozen under the ice in the lake.

Witness	Freeze water, Give True Witness
Traits	Truthful, Cold

Wild Storm Hill

This hill is topped with a large rough stone pillar. The wind always whistles about it but never settles down in one direction. The hill is sacred to Great Orlanth. It is the traditional location of ceremonies on One Day to Great Orlanth. It has a guardian Daemon who doesn’t manifest as a person. He is the great wind that roars and gusts around the hill. He is offered sacrifice as part of Orlanth’s ceremonies and by Orlanthi who want to gain his feat:

Wild Storm	Call Wild Storn Daemon
Traits	Unpredicatable, Violent

Three Eye Ridge

This is a long low ridge. The Three Eyes are its three peaks: Bright Eye, Two-Side and Saddle. Eithe rit has not landscape entity or no one has met it.

Rakorannan the Bear

Rakorannan is the bear daemon of the hill called the Bear to the south of Noble. The hill is steep and heavily wooded. It is the source of the stream Neverlass and the location of the Earth Cave. Bargrados 'Black Bear' Valenstisson met him in 1501. He lives in a deep cave in the woods about half way up his hill but can be found wandering anywhere about it. He is usually visited by the Odayla worshipping hunters who make their camps on his hill who sacrifice to him whenever they visit. He is friendly to the Roundstone Clan, neutral to the Thorn Tree Clan but hostile to others who would need to be introduced to him to approach safely. When he appears he looks like a gigantic black bear.

Rakorannan	Track Prey, Disappear in Woods
Traits	Fierce, Curious, Helpful