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>The civilisation gets -5 Cohesion.
Some of the most respected leaders of the Ancronic are sent across the Choslitol and along the length of the great lake's sourthern shore to speak with the priestesses who lead the never-hungry. Unlike the Vuvovic, they pose no threat – there is little to be lost by venturing forth to speak with them. It takes two, almost three months before these emissaries return to the Croglatol and when they come back, they are fewer in number than before.
The Bruguvic truly are a relic of the time before, or so these negotiators claim – they suffer very little hardship in comparison to the Ancronic, who struggle to survive after all of the devastation that they endured. The most punishing aspect of their existence is the simple labour of their daily lives, sowing and reaping beans and tubers, tending to the hives of the bees that they keep. They want for nothing, a fact reinforced by the words of the drobrac that the spokesmen met. Though the priestesses were pleased to hear that others still survive throughout the Croglatol, they do not have a strong desire to join the Ancronic. They have everything that they need already.
When it was suggested that together the Croglatovic people might better defend themselves against outsiders, the Bruguvic sisterhood were bemused. What outsiders? Surely the great flood swept them all away. When the Scagravic to the north were mentioned, they were dismissed as irrelevant, too distant to be a threat to the never-hungry. What about a network of commerce, that would give the agriculturalists access to superior tools? Unnecessary, the sisterhood said. There is no need for copper when stone will suffice. The never-hungry drobrac refused to budge, no matter what was said.
The combination of their certainty and the visible abundance of the land they inhabited was enough to sway some of the emissaries, who abandoned the Ancronic to live the easy life among the Bruguvic instead. News of this development leaves some of the council shaken – that some of the wisest among them would forsake their principles for the sake of an easier life comes as an unpleasant shock. However, there is one piece of good news – the Bruguvic sisterhood were eventually convinced to consider a union with the Ancronic, though there are two conditions that must be fulfilled.
One, the priestesses of the Allmother must be given greater authority and the power to strike down any decision that they disapprove of – even if it is sanctioned by both the chieftain and the saint. They must be given the power to shape the future of the chiefdom, once it is restored.
Two, the Croglatovic must not leave the Croglatol. The deluge was An's punishment for the greed, ambition and expansionism that the chiefdom exhibited during its final days. Trading and warring with outsiders shall only result in another calamity. Peaceful isolation is the only way forward.