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The Enimotok are among the few peoples of the east that produce golden haired offspring regularly. They hunt the small white whales for their fat, bone and flesh and pass close to the settlements of Helluland during spring, when they follow the whale schools to the south. Sometimes they trade furs or ivory with the seafarer clans for knives and tools of steel and for mead of course.

And sometimes hunters become the hunted…

Outsider magic is hard to fathom for humans for it does not seem to fit into everyday natural laws.

Everybody is potentially capable of invoking it, yet only true test decides, under usually unwelcoming circumstances. Outsider manifestation seems to correspond to human suffering but little to conscious control. Effects can be vast and far reaching yet fuzzy, hazy, and transient.

The cultures of the eastern continent have a strong shamanistic heritage. Rites of passage are common and hard in theses societies, and among other purposes serve to expose potential candidates for the role of a shaman. These are apprenticed to a practicing shaman and may follow him or her in time.

Witchwinter shamans usually invoke some rite or trance of need corresponding to the needs of the community. A rain dance to amend a drought would be preceded by abstaining from drink. In times of starvation, the hungry shaman may have a feverish nature spawn abundant sustenance, fruit, fish, or maybe leading the herds of caribou and bison within reach of the hunters.
This is never done on a whim, but only in dire need, for the price is heavy. Floods, soils lean and salty. Mold-ridden plants. And then fearsome predators, grown huge and obscene on the unnatural food.

Maralah was never good at rain dancing. That may have been the reason she was exiled, but then again...

DAZ 3D Iray render ~ 2500 Iterations, some minor PS postwork.

Add. I've checked this on my secondary screen and mobile and decided to raise the brightness quite a bit. I hope you like the new version. Thanks to to pointing it out.

Description

The Enimotok are among the few peoples of the east that produce golden haired offspring regularly. They hunt the small white whales for their fat, bone and flesh and pass close to the settlements of Helluland during spring, when they follow the whale schools to the south. Sometimes they trade furs or ivory with the seafarer clans for knives and tools of steel and for mead of course.

And sometimes hunters become the hunted…

Outsider magic is hard to fathom for humans for it does not seem to fit into everyday natural laws.

Everybody is potentially capable of invoking it, yet only true test decides, under usually unwelcoming circumstances. Outsider manifestation seems to correspond to human suffering but little to conscious control. Effects can be vast and far reaching yet fuzzy, hazy, and transient.

The cultures of the eastern continent have a strong shamanistic heritage. Rites of passage are common and hard in theses societies, and among other purposes serve to expose potential candidates for the role of a shaman. These are apprenticed to a practicing shaman and may follow him or her in time.

Witchwinter shamans usually invoke some rite or trance of need corresponding to the needs of the community. A rain dance to amend a drought would be preceded by abstaining from drink. In times of starvation, the hungry shaman may have a feverish nature spawn abundant sustenance, fruit, fish, or maybe leading the herds of caribou and bison within reach of the hunters.
This is never done on a whim, but only in dire need, for the price is heavy. Floods, soils lean and salty. Mold-ridden plants. And then fearsome predators, grown huge and obscene on the unnatural food.

Maralah was never good at rain dancing. That may have been the reason she was exiled, but then again...

DAZ 3D Iray render ~ 2500 Iterations, some minor PS postwork.

Add. I've checked this on my secondary screen and mobile and decided to raise the brightness quite a bit. I hope you like the new version. Thanks to to pointing it out.