Given how frightingly easy it is to disappear in a forest, the people of Smyrton aren't too far off.
... Where is the undergrowth? The mystery vines haven't been poisoned off, so it's not like the trees are suppressing them, so there ought to be a lot of it. Okay, yes, the Avar could be keepig it down with controlled burns, but you'd think that would come up, no?
And yeah, the forest being not what Azhure was expecting doesn't prove the Seneschel wrong by itself.
Birds I know I have seen in my neighbourhood: house sparrows, either chipping or savanah sparrows, crows, lots of magpies, pigeons, californa gulls, assorted other gulls, ravens, tennasee warblers, brown creepers, flickers, down woodpeckers, the occasional hairy woodpecker, grackles, dark-eyed juncos, chickadees, starlings, an unidentified raptor, and of course overflying canada geese. And I live in an urban prairie!
Wait, so there's undergrowth now?
If Grindle is Shra's father and Raum's brother wouldn't that make Raum and Shra uncle and niece?
Azhure, it's an ankle. It can be amputated, and if you know enough to go 'Aah! Infection!' you should know that. Why aren't you worried he'll lose his leg?
For that matter, why are you more worried about the break then the deep puncture wounds?
Okay, is it just me or do the Avar have wildly different names from each other? I swear, it sounds like they have at least twototally separate naming systems!
Ah, it's not just me.
... Uh, how many Avar men die off for this to work? Assuming they have give birth to equal numbers of girls and boys, they don't have enough women for every man to have multiple wives. So either not all men marry and have kids - unlikely - or something causes them to die off before they can get married. (And I'm not thrilled with the lack of space for either sex to be Just Not Interested.)
It's not dangerous for an seventeen to nineteen year old to get pregnant, my issue is that they seem to have a 'quiverfull' mindset which suggests very bad things about their birth spacing and allowances for the mother's health. (And given that most women are fertile well into their thirties, I do have to wonder why Fleat stopped having kids.)
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... Where is the undergrowth? The mystery vines haven't been poisoned off, so it's not like the trees are suppressing them, so there ought to be a lot of it. Okay, yes, the Avar could be keepig it down with controlled burns, but you'd think that would come up, no?
And yeah, the forest being not what Azhure was expecting doesn't prove the Seneschel wrong by itself.
Birds I know I have seen in my neighbourhood: house sparrows, either chipping or savanah sparrows, crows, lots of magpies, pigeons, californa gulls, assorted other gulls, ravens, tennasee warblers, brown creepers, flickers, down woodpeckers, the occasional hairy woodpecker, grackles, dark-eyed juncos, chickadees, starlings, an unidentified raptor, and of course overflying canada geese. And I live in an urban prairie!
Wait, so there's undergrowth now?
If Grindle is Shra's father and Raum's brother wouldn't that make Raum and Shra uncle and niece?
Azhure, it's an ankle. It can be amputated, and if you know enough to go 'Aah! Infection!' you should know that. Why aren't you worried he'll lose his leg?
For that matter, why are you more worried about the break then the deep puncture wounds?
Okay, is it just me or do the Avar have wildly different names from each other? I swear, it sounds like they have at least two totally separate naming systems!
Ah, it's not just me.
... Uh, how many Avar men die off for this to work? Assuming they have give birth to equal numbers of girls and boys, they don't have enough women for every man to have multiple wives. So either not all men marry and have kids - unlikely - or something causes them to die off before they can get married. (And I'm not thrilled with the lack of space for either sex to be Just Not Interested.)
It's not dangerous for an seventeen to nineteen year old to get pregnant, my issue is that they seem to have a 'quiverfull' mindset which suggests very bad things about their birth spacing and allowances for the mother's health. (And given that most women are fertile well into their thirties, I do have to wonder why Fleat stopped having kids.)