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Posted 2024-01-24 10:42:50
#1141780
I'm still figuring that out!

But now, I need to get to class
thesacredorchard
#10528
Posted 2024-01-24 10:42:55
#1141781
A strong river would be nice for us 💀
I'll have to get back to you on my camp location. Midnight, which side of the coniferous forest do you want? 		River 🏳️‍⚧️
#119120
Posted 2024-01-24 10:49:40 (edited)
#1141788

Would this be okay for you?
(I of course will remove the names immediately from the map again, it's just so you understand what I mean )

Edit: I also want a river, so that's no problem!
Midnight
#116791
Posted 2024-01-24 10:58:05
#1141796
My pack's home is literally a group of seven caves of varying sizes built from large rocks. There's a courtyard in the center of the caves and a creek on the south side. Lessons are normally taught at the creekside, except during Coigreach/Cataclysms when it would be ill-advised for pups to leave the caves. A quarter mile or so away to the east, there's a circle of extremely tall pines with a clearing in the middle that serves as the pack's graveyard. According to pack lore, the alpha who moved the pack to the Taiga believed that the circle of pines was touched by the Ancestors and so established the pack's new home close by. A little way south of the circle of pines, there's a meadow.
spotpc
#9204
Posted 2024-01-24 11:01:14
#1141799
Alright then! I think I can do this! :D
Midnight
#116791
Posted 2024-01-24 11:08:31 (edited)
#1141804

I'm trying to link an image I made a while back. I may have to try several times.
spotpc
#9204
Posted 2024-01-24 11:37:51
#1141817
I'm working on it! :D
I'm already finished with the camp itself, I'm now workong on the rest of the territorry.
Midnight
#116791
Posted 2024-01-24 12:48:26 (edited)
#1141861
Although Shadow Runners have yet to find their new home, it will be such: a lush part of the forest that floods most heavily in the spring when the annual rains come. The small river turns into a large, flat expanse of flooded woodland.

They make their camp primarily in a partial cave made up of a natural, southward-facing rock bridge formation (it has a waterfall that opens up into a somewhat shallow lake that one has to tread over to reach the dry land of the sleeping area), though they have smaller dens in a few locations throughout their territory as a precaution against flooding. These can be near anywhere you desire, Midnight.

These smaller dens are also used during an annual elk migration and follow a rough linear fashion (Im thinking Prairie). The elk love the woodland for its vegetation but before the wet seasons that make it difficult to calf, they move down toward flatter pastures. Shadow Runners follow them as far as they can through the woodland until the edge of their territory. They feast on stores of food and smaller prey during winter.

Meadows are more common in the dry months, and one southward of their main den is the primary training location.

That's all I can think of at the moment.
thesacredorchard
#10528
Posted 2024-01-24 13:16:17
#1141876
Alright! I'll get started as soon as I finished the Taiga!
Midnight
#116791
Posted 2024-01-24 14:01:37
#1141902
Random cultural insight:
My pack has a prayer that they say for the souls of their prey after each successful hunt. This prayer is an important lesson for apprentice hunters, especially if they are disturbed by killing or show disrespect to the prey. The prayer's exact wording varied for years until it was codified by Falcontail, dictated by Sunflare in the version taught to her by her uncle Skyflash. That standardized version is this: "We must respect our prey, as they die to sustain us. We give them only the fear and pain necessary to claim their lives, as we hope the Ancestors do for us when our time comes. Do not weep for our prey, as their hardships in this world are over. They will find peace on the other side, as all innocent souls do."
spotpc
#9204
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