January 1-8, 1 A.D

[b][u]Rise of a Girfahl monarchy[/b][/u]

The sun rises on the eastern mountains. The rise of the sun marks the beginning of the mating rituals for the Girfahl whose hormones are starting to activate. The adults, meanwhile, start hunting for fish and in addition, they start teaching their children how to fish.

Soon, the sun starts appearing in the western forests. Apart from the above, the farmers are leaving to take care of their plants. The hunters are also looking for prey and the gatherers are looking for fruits to which they can feed the sons who have survived the egg slaughtering. In the towns where governments have developed, those in the top of said governments start reuniting.

In the south, things are very different. The many rulers of the land know little about the concept of diplomacy, save for the concept of conquest, and often try to conquer eachother to see who will succeed Erraj and who will finally rule over the primordial lake. The typical cycle of a nation is that a ruler finally manages to conquer a large amount of land, after he dies; the councils reunite and try to elect a successor. However, due to the little amount of infrastructure, often local rulers end up using their own interpretation of the winners and try to hold as much land as they can get. This would be the same to the other powerful candidates and the land would end up divided between two rulers at the best. However, they all claim to be the legitimate successor of the legendary Erraj and this gives them a perfect excuse to slaughter eachother.

In one of these petty kingdoms, though, one ruler by the name of Ipakdre Yvdenaknden has came up with a revolutionary idea to protect his lands of Varisvaara from these wars that end up devastating his ever-weakening realm. He wants to declare a monarchy and turn his son into the successor to all the lands. However, he knows that he will have to face a large opposition for this. After all, the gods say that war is a sacred element in every man’s life and that one will only satisfy them with spilling blood in the name of them. In addition, it will hard to break the old elective nature from the rulers of settlements.

He is sending messengers to communicate this decision to the governors to the rulers of any form of settlement. These messengers will say that the king has made his son the one and only heir. They shall inform everyone by 15 days.