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>The civilisation gets +0.02 Militarism.
>The civilisation gets +5 Productivity and Security.
Prodan is asked to drive the Ancronic and the Bruguvic onward, to compel them to continue the reclamation of the Croglatol, no matter the cost. The restoration of the chiefdom comes before all else, and any obstacle that stands in the way of this goal must be surmounted through guile, or brought down using force. Now is the time for action, not restraint.
… Yet the saint refuses. She had previously spoken in favour of joining the never-hungry, and then argued in favour of accepting their conditions in order to reunite with them. Prodan stood against the conquest of the Bruguvic from the very start and ever since the southern sisterhood was cast down, she has been on edge. Now she is being asked to encourage even more ruthless expansionism and it is just too much for her to stomach. When the night of the feast arrives, Prodan and many of her priestesses are nowhere to be found – the festival must go without the saint's blessing.
Though Slucatal steps up and offers a rousing speech about the necessity of growth and conquest, it just isn't the same. He speaks for the Great Father, not for the Allmother. For the rest of the feast, the atmosphere is tepid and awkward as the Croglatovic remnants gorge themselves on the harvest of the never-hungry, with little in the way of revelry. Though the saint and her inner circle emerge from hiding the next day, it's too late – the banquet is over and most of those who attended have already departed, to return to their villages. This opportunity to lift the spirits of the people has been squandered.
The Ancronic and Bruguvic hunker down in their settlements for the winter. Travel only resumes with the arrival of spring and scouts are sent further eastward, towards the Sharoc and its foothills. By the time that they return to Ancron with news from the far side of the Croglatol, summer is already in full swing.
Among the rocky slopes that lead up to the eastern mountains, Ancronic scouts have found the last significant factions that formed after the fall of the chiefdom. The foothills are split between two warring societies – the <span class="mu-s">Trunigrovic</span>, the <span class="mu-i">freemen</span>, and the <span class="mu-s">Slodravic</span>, the <span class="mu-i">law-makers</span>.
The Slodravic are in the minority – it's estimated that there are less than two thousand of them scattered across a couple of dozen villages, closer to the Croglatol. The law-makers include the last vestiges of the Vuvovic who were tasked with putting down slave revolts, as well as many men and women who once owned thralls or who continued to support the ownership of them, even after the flood occurred.
