[center][color=00CED1][h3]The Iceborn[/h3][/color][/center]
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With a mighty heave, a dozen men lifted up the log that they had dragged along the ground. With another great heft, they added it to the crude framework that was the skeleton of a longhouse. Several such longhouses were being built; they were huge by the standards of the dwellings that most people inhabited, though each of the longhouses were also shared by a dozen people. The Iceborn built in an organized and planned manner, which each of the longhouses arrayed in a circle around a small hill. Atop that hill they would eventually build a great mead hall that would house their chieftain.

As in for their chieftain, he sat upon a nearby rock and looked at their progress without truly watching; he was deep in thought. He was similarly building, though his struggle was a mental one. He grappled with how he would lead his people, for he knew that in the future, all eyes would look back upon him as an example of how to rule the tribe.

Their warrior culture and ancient traditions were sacred and those were the things that had made them strong; he could not give that up. At the same time, this new land was green and much larger than their Fatherland; to fully utilize its resources and seize control of it, the tribe would need greater organization. That same organization would prevent the various villages and their petty chieftains from quarreling with one another and fighting. Iceborn were not meant to fight one another.

At the end of that day, Dag proclaimed himself High Chieftain. Though there were no settlements other than Dagshall, in time more villages were sure to be built, and when those villages were raised, their chieftains would swear fealty to him. Such would be the way in which the [b]tribal kingdom[/b] operated; gone were the days of disorganized and bickering villages under the arbitrary banner of some confederation or tribe. The Iceborn would be one people, and they would have one High Chieftain.

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Dag watches some of his guys build a house while he sits on a rock and thinks. He figures out that he's going to create a tribal kingdom, ruling and organizing the Iceborn with something between feudalism and tribalism.
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