Collaborating information about the Nightmare war

[Layla]

We gained much information on the time around the Nightmare war during the Weavewalk 5th night. Here is a place to collaborate and perhaps we can piece together a more complete picture of the story if everyone pitches in with what they learned from talking to folks. We've seen any number of indicators that the happenings of the past, and finding the truth hidden there, will be important for our survival and success navigating what the future holds...
-Layla

[Layla]

As far as we can tell, the weavewalk was broken into three to four parts- The battle, Morning Sky, and Evensong Keep.

People met:
Sir Goodwin was our contact in the battle- facing numerous waves of harrowed. The goal was to protect...someplace? I will admit we did not get as many details about this as we may have liked as we were trying to figure out WHAT was going on and how we were to get information. Anyone have more details from speaking with him?

Second part of the Weavewalk:
From talking to the General Hellaorhindlersdotter of the Iron Goat clan (Colleen).We are in the Land of Gold and Silver at Morning Sky.  Kotodun joined after calling on Dhegea at the Sundering. The north fights now, everyone does their part. Lady of the woods keep the forests healthy. All are trying to unify but they are very different people. Leaders from each of the lands will be coming to try and work out what to do with the alliance.

Constantin is a negotiator, trying to find out what is causing the chaos in the lands. It is difficult to determine what they want or what is true and find a weakness.

Constantin is trying to find a pattern but there is none. There are bursts of occurences across the lands where harrowed appear and destroy villages. It has been about 7 or 8 years since the Splitting or Weakening, since the Malefers appeared. It is why the nightmares walk free. It is difficult to know the force behind these incursions. They are a distraction to gather power and forces allowing the land to come together. It is something to focus on.

She said the Weakening was very similar to the Lands night of sacrifice. A galvanizing moment. It was around the time of the comet. Comet was before the sacrifice of Kotodun.

From talking to the General:
The sacrifice of Kotodun
The harrowed were pouring through the mountains, ravaging the villages. Nothing slowed them down. The priests of Dhigea did a ritual and called upon him. the land rent, the mountains rose higher and some of the people were lost. The Sacrifice is those where were lost. Those beyond the mountain were lost.

During the middle portion of the Weavewalk:
The lady of the woods was coming here to Evensong to meet with the other leaders to discuss the issue with the Nightmare Lord.

The lady was beset by harrowed and normal folks working with the harrowed. They were hunting her and specifically seemed to be targeting her as a harrowed was seen sniffing the air and tracking.

Ritual that was completed by the time our forces got there to try and stop it…

Mesena shosathu’ola giba sedidalu nokodo
We invoke (   )nightmare to fill ___________ location.


During the last portion of the weavewalk, the nightmare lord is sending an envoy to the Lands (Evensong)

The General’s speech:
..forces may be delayed by the harrowed but it is time to draw our swords, draw our magic, call on our gods and be great…

Then when our reinforcements come we can tell them what we have seen about the intelligence behind the nightmares…

The Zoku want to parlay
Dantessi are cautious


Other notes:
Zhad= northlands
Zhadogodun- the plains of stone

Prince KAsar is a Zhad. He is working with the favored to beat back the rituals of the nightmares.
Zemma’s aunt, morningsky is her domain (from talking to the person who took them to disrupt the ritual)
General Bayer
High Queen Kemma of the Land of Gold and Silver (Fox).
Feramond, first of his name, lord of nightmare.
Jovian with the Land (John B)
Senator Constantin represents the Zhekiza and Kanon (Jenny)
Alucin Alcor the 6th
General Alhildindottir (Colleen)
MArel Gudamer of Dantessa of the Houses (Lance. Definitely misspelled this name)

Truce offered by the Nightmare Lord to the leaders of the various lands: Surrender immediately your lands, titles, and people in return for peace in their lands.

The leaders react as if it is a joke as it is no real parlay and Constantin asks for connection.  The Nightmare Lord stated that if they would not hear reason, perhaps the next set of leaders would. He casts a spell. “By the subconscious fear of those assembled I bind my champion” A Greyweaver screams and then materializes a weapon and begins to disintegrate the leaders and assembled folks.

Raven talks about survival and that is why she is working against Fera.

About 2 years before the meeting.
10 BC Kotodun sacrifice happened.

From my divinations on Feramond (the last one is from Niko)...
Is there a relationship between Feramond and Raven?
The one known as Feramond has no known relationship to the one known as Raven
Was there a relationship at any time between those beings?
There is no relationship
What greater powers do Feramond and Raven serve?
The one known as Fermond has no agency because he does not exist
Uncertain what I asked here...
There is no greater power using Feramond, he was a power unto himself.
How was Feramond able to control a Malefer (I thought originally Niko had said Greyweaver but he said he asked about the Malefer)
He was able to compel the Malefer through Magicka, througha  corrupted form of emotional control
How did Feramond die?
 the actions of a unified Concordance severed his power.

[Hazel]

Layla, your notes have it as mesena shosathu’ola giba sedidalU nokodo?
Mine have mesena shosathu’ola giba sedidalA nokodo.  If you're positive about your notes, than I'll change mine, but we haven't come across any words that end in -LU yet, so I'm curious.

[Miri Thorel]

Two thoughts on reading this:

"The Splitting, or Weakening." Given what we've heard about the old goddess that might have been two, I wonder if the splitting involved splitting the two of them apart. That's just speculation.

"The Lands night of sacrifice" - do we know what that is? We've heard a story about the royal family of the Land sacrificing themselves to save the Land, but I thought that was after the Nightmare War. At least that's how the story I heard had it. But stories can be wrong.

--Miri

[Layla]

That is what we have in my notes but that does not mean it is not a transcription error Hazel. A -la ending makes more sense based on what we’ve seen so far.

Layla

[Layla]

Looking at this again....

Mesena shosathu’ola giba sedidala (shedidala) nokodo
We invoke (   )nightmare to fill ___________ location

Location is an unconfirmed vocabulary word. Cross referencing this with another source that uses shedidala and in that context that word could mean [people] (especially if one looks at other confirmed words we do have like shedhoma/shedhi'ensa). While it's still obviously conjecture it changes the ritual sentence quite a bit.

We invoke (    )nightmare to fill [people] __________

Layla