[center][h3][color=fff79a]Yuu[/color][/h3][/center]

The woods were spreading, up through the mountains from where Ipeyr once sowed them, and a new creature had of late been appearing. Yuu recognised it as a touch of home. Fitting, he thought, nocking an arrow to his bow.

The nearest sika was a male, maned and spotted, bearing a perfect set of antlers, but it wasn't him the hunter was aiming for. With barely a twang, the wooden bow snapped and sent its arrow through the neck of the doe, felling it with a kick. Yuu let out a long breath. It was a nice shot, though he'd been aiming for a shoulder. He checked around for any gods that might have guided his unlucky arrow, and saw none.

Well, at least he could still hit [i]something[/i].

The other deer had not realised their loss, having yet to learn the fear of humans. Yuu carried his hit away on his back, where a simple drying rack waited. He'd been harvesting sea salt for some weeks now. The sika would last.

As Yuu sat by a fire several hours later and rested his tired, bloodied hands, another animal moved through the same woods. In a few moments he'd strung his bow once more- he had no use for more meat, but Yuu was not above killing for curiousity. Was it a horse? No, a horse didn't come this far.

He lowered the sacred bow. A horse who was man. That was [i]not[/i] familiar.

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[center][h3]The Centaur[/h3][/center]

The Centaur had passed from the Godly Promus many hours before, the boon of speechcraft being little demand after its placement upon the creature for none that he passed knew the impressions behind the sounds he exhaled. Perhaps that was to change though, for no sooner had the creature slowed its pace the trees began to shake with little wind, the birds began to tweet without pause... the blessing of his father took effect and all too quickly the centaur understood that it was a warning - meant for him.

The creature tensed its muscles, turning swiftly from one direction to the next trying to discern whatever could be worthy of nature's warning.

[color=fff79a]"Easy, friend,"[/color] said a voice, as though talking to a beast, [color=fff79a]"easy."[/color]

Yuu made no attempt to remain hidden, and would have failed it in any case. He was heard before he was seen, a russ of leaf and litter.

"What are you, being that walks in the skin of my father and his kind?" demanded the Centaur. Regardless of the being's passive attitude, this was no time for games. The wilderness gave a warning - something occured and now a being had revealed itself, speaking in the tongue that Elder Promus has gifted to the Centaur.

The quadrupedal mammal raised it's shoulders and puffed out it's chest, turning towards the revealing person with its heightened stature. Yuu was a small thing, slight of frame, but did not cower.

[color=fff79a]"My name is Yuu,"[/color] he said. [color=fff79a]"I wander here. In all my wanderings I still have never met anyone like you."[/color] He bowed.

"And I take it that is a complement?" muses the Centaur. The being was indeed one of intellect, though it's nature was yet to be spoken for. "There is no need for such customs," he continues, signaling away the bow and whatever honey-laced wordplay the creature may bring to the discussion.

[color=fff79a]"Oh,"[/color] said Yuu. The hybrid was being obtuse. [color=fff79a]"I see. Well, in that case, who are [i]you?[/i] It's good to know with whom one shares the woods."[/color]

At this the Centaur's brow scrunched, he was what he is - the creature knew that. "You address yourself like my father and his kind... tell me, that is that which you speak of?" he asks.

The words caught Yuu and made him trip. [color=fff79a]"I... address myself like anyone would,"[/color] he said, [color=fff79a]"With a name."[/color] Seeing that the being gave no sign of being condescended to, Yuu went on. [color=fff79a]"There are many words we use to say what we are. Tall, brave, old, wise, a... a haberdasher. But each of us has only one word to say [i]who[/i] we are. It encompasses all of them, though it might not have any meaning at all. It is our word. It means us, whoever we are, or have been. Like Lei, or Regulus, or Elizer. It means me, or, it means... Yuu."[/color] The double meaning wasn't intended, but it worked.

The centaur paused, several thoughts shot through its mind as it contemplated this new information. "Certainly it would be to carry a name, in that case I shall be known by one such name. Names are a person's embodiment you say? Then I shall be known as Nomad!" The centaur kicked its hind leg into the air as it spoke, standing still carried its own difficulties.

Now there was progress.

[color=fff79a]"It's a pleasure to meet you, Nomad."[/color] Yuu resisted the habit of bowing again. [color=fff79a]"And who sent you wandering? Do they, too, have no name?"[/color]

"Of couse, though that pleasure is truly all mine - from you I have learnt of naming." Nomad had begun to settle within the conversation that had developed. Yuu was a strange being filled with strict customs, it seemed, though it wasn't something which seemed to hold ill intention.

"My father? He is known, rather felt, by me as 'Faliir'."

[color=fff79a]"Ah. The... Horse-maker. Of course."[/color] Yuu nodded. [color=fff79a]"I'm fond of his work. I have a home nearby,"[/color] he said, [color=fff79a]"so come, rest a while. Please. I'd be honoured."[/color]

"A home?" questioned the Centaur - this time aware of the meaning of such a term. "Out here within the dense forestry? How long have you been resting within the confines of this woodland? I would be a fool not to accept your offer in these circumstances anyhow."

Yuu laughed. [color=fff79a]"Come!"[/color] he said, again. [color=fff79a]"All places are home, when one knows them well."[/color] And he led Nomad into the woods.

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Yuu practices hunting the newly-created deer with the enchanted bow. It seems he's gone innawoods.

He encounters the Centaur and they chat for a while. The Centaur is introduced to the concept of names, and names himself Nomad. They agree to go head to Yuu's forest hut.

Yuu gains 2+2 Prestige from this post, 2+2 Prestige from his previous post with Regulus, and 2 Prestige from his creation post, for 10 total. I'll give him the titles [i]Marksman[/i] and [i]Horseman,[/i] both at level one.

Nomad didn't have any speaking lines in his creation post, but he can get 2 Prestige from that because I'm a generous god. Another 2 from the post in which he replied to Cyclone, and 2+2 from this one, for 8 total.

[b]Yuu
6 Prestige
Marksman (I), Horseman (I)[/b]

[b]Nomad
8 Prestige[/b]
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