Hieron: The Months of Autumn Pt 1
Friends at the Table
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🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
And so the season turns, and the cold winds sweep in, and candles and fires and stoves are lit. Black branches against a white sky. There are more stories to tell, though. There are always more stories to tell. It's not long before we meet our old friends again, I promise. They're waiting, right now. They're kicking the frost off their boots, cold fingers on metal buckles. Before we find them again, though, there is an old story to tell. Perhaps you've heard it before. Perhaps this is the first time you've heard it. There's a small island, you see? Waves crash around its rocky coast. There is the silhouette of a tower. It's better, don't you think, to bring everybody up to speed?
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, I suppose I have one more story in me, but if you want me to tell you about them, then, well, I need to start from the beginning. The very beginning. |
| 0:16.4 | When I was a young man, Hyron floated in the void, |
| 0:20.8 | anchored to nothing. The only light was the ambient glow given off by me and my kin. Time |
| 0:29.2 | passed uncounted. There was no such thing as a year then. After all, there was no common center by which folks could count and organize their lives. |
| 0:40.0 | Imagine that. Really try to. No holidays, no birthdays, no days at all. How would you count them? |
| 0:48.8 | And then, with his strength and wisdom, Sammity struck his hammer to scalding iron and built us the sun, placing it in the sky above, giving us not only light, but time, too. Suddenly, everyone on Hiron had something |
| 1:08.9 | new in common. We were all united under his blazing star. |
| 1:13.0 | Don't get me wrong. |
| 1:15.0 | I am not saying that was his intention. |
| 1:19.0 | For all that Sammethies has done for us, |
| 1:22.0 | sometimes it feels like it's a side effect, like a whistle on a steam engine. |
| 1:30.0 | In any case, years passed by an uncountable number, partially because there were a lot of them, |
| 1:37.0 | and partially because, well, the way we gods wrote and rewrote history then, |
| 1:42.0 | it meant that it was a little difficult to get a complete count. |
| 1:46.0 | Still, you probably know the stories. |
| 1:50.0 | Loose alliances between elves and men, roving hordes of orks, the dwarves digging deep, humble |
| 1:56.6 | halflings, and gods alive. |
| 2:00.0 | Now don't get me wrong. Those stories well, they're stories, not histories, but for the most |
| 2:07.6 | part the basics line up just about right. And then the war between my boys and then Mary Elder and then what |
| 2:16.4 | happened between Malguin and Sammities. Y'all call what happened next the |
| 2:21.4 | erasure. And after that, people lost track of the years again for a whole new reason. Not because there was no |
| 2:35.5 | son, not because we were rewriting history, but because folks were so busy trying to survive, |
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