[b]Arsuron

Population: 210
	Arsur Coast: 60
	River Camp: 62 (10 in Rokthan Territory)
	Lotus Colony: 65 (6 in Soruli Territory)
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	Yijen Fork Trading Post: 21 (6 Arsuron; 15 Illis)
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[*] Copper Working: 5/8
[*] Fire though Quicklime and Water: 4/5
[*] Dolphin Domestication: 4/10
[*] Papyrus: Complete
[*] The Slave Trade: Complete
[*] Improved Land Architecture: 1/5
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[b]The Weaver's Gift[/b]

That weaver who so long ago decided to try and weave the flesh of the papyrus reed had come to see the fruits of her experiment; the thin yet strong material she had produced had become popular among the many Arsuron as a medium of writing. It also created a value for black dye, which was later created to replace the more expensive red dye that was used as ink for writing when papyrus first came into the public eye. Papyrus had steadily become the norm of writing and documentation, much more portable than clay tablets, and allowing the Anrethi abugida to be written much much more quickly and clearly than when carved into a wet tablet of clay or into the sand. Caligraphy was starting to become a minor artform among the Arsuron, with traders signing their agreements or marking their wares with elaborate signatures.


[b]Explorers in Soruli Territory[/b]
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The explorers were taken aback by the sudden use of voices similar to their own, but only repeating what they had said. They watched her display concerning the cracked nuts with liquid inside. It was obvious that she wanted them to take a drink from them, and so the 6 each took the three containers and sipped from them. The leader wanted to give something in turn to cement the show of friendship, and so he did the traditional thing, cut open a watermelon and handed the two pieces to the bird in the tree slowly, hoping it would be enough to convince her to come down, and maybe take her to somewhere where others could be found. The other explorers were still as much worried, but the friendliness of Naho was hopeful, and maybe her species would be interested in trade. 

[b]Arsur Coastline[/b] 

It was obvious that the structures traditional to the Arsuron's land constructions were unsuited for anything other than temporary ceremonial usage. For years it was pointed out that they were dangerous, prone to collapse and ill suited repurposments of houseboats. Indeed it was obvious that the conquest of land was not yet achieved by the Arsuron. Intensive study would need to be put into the construction of land based buildings, and a good place to start was in the bone plate documents written by none other than Anrett herself, detailing her time with the Rokthan, and her studies of their ways of building. From the study of her writings, the Arsuron had developed the idea of building with foundations and structure rather than just with pure mud, sand and reed grass. The would would need to come from the Lotus colony, and so it would. But much would need to happen for the buildings of the Arsuron to be more than temporary.