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So then, with the help of capable others you can gather up who and what you lead, and after another festival in your honor you can depart to be guided the way to the meeting place.
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It takes a few days travel, possibly through Namadan territory even if you aren't mistaken. But this is an important enough site where the Gaelans wouldn't care who owns the land. The coastal meeting place of the clans, among standing stones on cliffs over the sea, is a culturally sacred place which serves the needs of the people in the region here.
And there's certainly a show of it, long even before you arrive when you see and hear signs of gathering all around with increasing frequency as you near the cliffs. Scattered camps, banners and music all around, meeting and competition between clans. Even a group of Namadans to observe the whole thing, are present with unease but otherwise suffer no assault or ill-will. So it is that bloodshed is forbidden here, unless in ceremony, and one of the things the Namadans have to respect if they ever hope of occupying this land and governing the people.
<span class="mu-s">"...look! Look, there it is!"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"Not as big as I thought, they said it was a hundred men tall..."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"If it can control the sea and defeats the invaders..."</span>
The nearer you draw to the meeting place the more attention you draw, and amazed people following you... although just as many react in fear and withdraw to their camps. You tried to make a good show of all this though and it seems to have paid off; both in your favor of the coastal clans, and your own personal effort to meet the humans halfway so to speak. Among the many gifts given in offering and thanks by the various Gaelans and clans, more than a few have tried to make you clothes, their thinking it to be better than that old Atlantean banner you drape around your waist. Of course to you it's uncomfortable and an ugly mess, these strange clothes of the Gaelans, but you can tell it helps some people view you as not so terribly out-of-place here. Maybe not one of them, but a potential friend of them, enough to respect their customs and culture.
