Turn 1 Rumors and Reports
Raven Tribe – Settle Scores – 41%
The Raven Tribe, having declined to join the League, has instead continued to feud with their neighbors. This has resulted in a series of back-and-forth raids, with neither side gaining the upper hand – these small conflicts are effectively the norm for the fragmented state of the True People, but it does still cause unnecessary bloodshed. While they have adopted some useful aspects of your society, their stance towards you seems to have neither improved nor deteriorated.
Sanctuary – Make Some Friends – 50%
Strange news from the coast! A ship of gleaming metal was seen to have descended from the sky and landed in the delta. The people who emerged bore many strange and wondrous gifts, and exchanged them with the local tribes for the right to build, hunt, and fish there. Since then, there has been no news, but it can be assumed these strangers are busy establishing their new home and getting the lay of the land.
League of Strength – Expand – 73%
A wind blew from the north, and it carried the scent of smoke and fear. Calling themselves the League of Strength, a number of warrior-tribes of the far north has embarked on a campaign of conquest. They seek no ransoms, for those they take captive are said to be made to labor in the workshops and mines. They seek no peace treaties, for the tribes they conquer are scattered or absorbed into the growing League. As their neighbors fall, messengers travel across the northern woods, making pacts of defense.
??? – Unite the Machine Armies – 79%
A wind blew from the east, and it carried the smell of blood and oil. The Machine Army of the Holy Mountain has been conquered at their stronghold, one of the greatest landmarks in the barren interior steppes. Repurposed digging machines ate through the walls and into the automated factories, and the soldiers of this new warlord sacked the workshops and armories for a day and a night. What does this mean for the True People?
Tech Barons – Crush the Bandits – 97%
A man of the True People came fleeing from the southwest to speak in the tribal assembly of Whiteclay. Beyond the lands where the True People live, he says, is a land where men with terrible weapons lord over fields of serfs. From their walled compounds they strike out to crush all defiance. They are not like us, though they make war on us where they encroach on our borders. For a time, runaway serfs and survivors of the True People made a living in the hills and deep woods, but these Tech Barons have embarked on a campaign to root them out. Fire and steel served to drive these scattered, leaderless, and undisciplined folk from their hiding places, and they were crushed in open battle by numbers and weapons the True People have never seen. Are we truly surrounded on all sides by enemies?
