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Two Crows Watch from the Gallows Tree (part 19)



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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:12 pm
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"We're going East," he said. "And in exactly three months and four days the gods will wake. It will be gradual--the first to wake will be Haelar."
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:13 pm
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“… that’s good.” She nodded, even as anxiety curled around her gut. Three months and four days. That was time. Jerica would be glad to know. “He’s a good one to start with.”

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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:15 pm
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"Indeed he is. Fjori will be next, predictably; he has already chosen a herald."
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:19 pm
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“Who?”

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Again he paused. "You don't know her. She's Orthoan--a girl named Manne. She doesn't know yet; this isn't her god."
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:22 pm
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“… is she still there? Or is she up here somewhere? Are they drawing people from all over?”

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:25 pm
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"There are a great many--all with Northern blood, however small that percentage may be. But from all over the world. Orthos, the Eastern Realm, the Southern Realm, the Northern tribes."
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:27 pm
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“I don’t have Northern blood,” she pointed out.

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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:32 pm
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"For you it's the connection to your adoptive father," he said. "And Haelar's unconvention."
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:33 pm
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“Ah… wait, many, though? Does each god have multiple?”

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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:34 pm
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"No, but we have over a dozen gods. So there are many people being chosen."
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:46 pm
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“That’s fair…” she thought for a moment. “Wait, do my real-birth parents have connection to the North somehow?” She glanced over at him. “Cause Jerica got picked too…”

(I’m fine with the answer being yes if you want. In canon their mother wasn’t noble so she could be a distant immigrant)

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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:52 pm
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(All up to you. I let Gaius leave that open-ended because I didn't want to godmod.)

"It's extremely distant, but yes." He nodded. "The connection goes back maybe three hundred years or more."
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:09 pm
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(Perf ^^ I probably won’t develop much more than that tbh it’s not canon so no real need to develop yet)

“… it must be my mother’s family then.”

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:21 pm
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(Fair nuff.)

He thought about nodding, then settled for a shrug. No need to sound like a know-it-all.
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