There and Back Again, a Halflings' Tale.

[NotEvilAtAll 10906]

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[!] An epic saga is told all across Honeyhill, spreading the news of the adventures of the new Mayor and Thain.

The Saga of Mimosa and Cyris

𝅘𝅥 Far over the northern mountains cold, 𝅘𝅥

𝅘𝅥 through caverns deep and forests old, 𝅘𝅥

𝅘𝅥 we must away ere break of day 𝅘𝅥

𝅘𝅥 to seek our fortune in the snow. 𝅘𝅥

~An old Dwarven song~

 

And so, with all great adventures, it began somewhere humble. In Honeyhill, home of us halflings, where even the rats and mice are home in time for supper, something rather peculiar happened. Mimosa and Cyris, the newly elected leadership of the village, set out to dark, dangerous lands in search of wealth, fame, glory, diplomacy, and trade. Out to the north and west, where Arugula's wrath grips the world in ice and snow, they found what they were looking for.

 

Many strange, strange creatures came up to them. They found talking man-like fish from the rivers, leaping through the air like arrows and back into the water as the swan dives. The man-fish commanded the power of water itself, freezing the river over to walk over to them. They talked much, but of very little, and so the brave halflings carried on in their journey.

 

The roads carried them far to the north, where they stumbled across a Dwarven hold alone in the desolate wastes around them. Exhausted and freezing from their travels, Mimosa and Cyris went to them for warmth and all the comforts that a weary traveler can find outside of home, which the Dwarves provided o' so generously.

 

Discussions were had with the Dwarven settlers; trade deals drawn up, new bonds forged, and thus a new relationship between the wee and the less-wee began. Here in the land of the Northern Dwarves, many more strange creatures were found, including rogue Gnomes outside of the Gnomish Kingdom, who swore themselves as enemies of the village Gnomes even as the Dwarves and non-Dwarf colonists alike bonded with the travelers!

 

Tired and weary, Mimosa and Cyris went back to Honeyhill, and thus this story concludes. May Knox bless us all!

[!] And so the fables did end, and story books conclude.

 

[!] As well as general tales of halfling adventure, a missive is pinned to the Honeyhill Noticeboard!

"Attention all halflings! Cyris and I have made new trade negotiations! In exchange for our foodstuffs, the Dwarves shall give us many fine crafts from their cold, mountainous land! May Knox bless this new relationship and give us trading success!

-Mimosa Applefoot"

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ice forest image from samara lucilius: https://www.pinterest.co.kr/pin/645844402800853945/

 

[Norgeth 1894]

Xob Wobson sighed, shaking his head as the publication reached him. "Meh ahn moi enclave nae beh foes ov these village-kin ov ours, but tradition dictates maneh things, things taht cahn nae beh changed... oi will travel toh tis village moiself en diplomatic effort." He said to himself, starting to plan his quest of travel.

[Hearth 1082]

And so the King returned to his oaken throne, surrounded by his many foxes, rats and frogs;

A different tale to them told he, one of friendship and of his mayoral companion;

And of the will of Knox, and of the mysteries of the sea, and of the nature of the mountains to lead travellers astray;

And his children listened, though understand they did not, as they were simple beasts, and though Cyris was a King, one could feel they heeded his words all the same.

[Barbog 448]

A half-crippled goblin hollowed away in an old fort-turned-school inspects the missive, having taken it from the noticeboard to look over. He makes a thoughtful noise, and takes a mental note to visit the hold of the mountainfolk at some point in the near future. His inspection of the  missive completed, he returns to tack it back up for the next weefolk to read.