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HamsterIV:
"A nice relaxing flight." is a euphemism for throwing a self entitled passenger or crew member off the side of an airship at altitude. Example "The provost's son kept complaining about the grit when we were flying through a sand storm so I made sure he had a nice relaxing flight."

The Burren's Shimmy

The Mann:
Legends foretold from the days of old. Sailors witness the green flares as the Sun descends below the waves.
Many Arashi have noted similar properties occurring when the Sun touches the dunes of the burren.

Arashi Bone Breaker Trials.

Carn:
The Arashi Bone Breaker Trials are a cornerstone of Arashi  engineer culture.  To test their ability to salvage anything, the young engineers must compete in various tests of strength and endurance.  These include the Mallet Throw, the Tar Run, and the Bulkhead Carry.

The Tale of Guntar of Anglea, and Lars the Baron

C r o w:
''The Tale of Guntar of Anglea, and Lars the Baron'', otherwise known as ''The Tale of Moster-eater Guntar and Whale-killer Lars'' are one of the products born from peaceful relations between the Republic and the Baronies.
In the first day after the Great War of Old, the Baronies and the Republic were still forming and pioneers reached for the Firnfeld in order to claim more lands for thier people.
The Tale begins with a meeting of two such pioneers: Guntar, the paragon anglean, was intent of wrestling a beached shark into submission as he was found by Lars.
Lars helped Guntar carry the shark to his ship, only to see that it had been destroyed.
Lars offers to help Guntar by letting him sail for a while on his own ship... only to get shipwrecked after being attacked by a whale.
Thus, began their journeys together.
Troughout the Tale, Guntar appears to be the strongest among the two, always ready for a fight, yet he is as much honest as he is strong, he is also the most serious among the couple.
Lars on the other hand appears to be the more dextrous than his fellow, yet weaker, more mischevious and prone to make jokes.
The central part of the Tale shows how they got thier nicknames:
Guntar, Lars and some firnfeldlander were travelling towards a village from which no one had heard anything for weeks.
Suddenly they are attacked by a pack of snow tigers. Many men die with thier neck bitten of by the great feline, and as such Guntar decides to give them thier own medicine; after killing by axe a couple of tigers, he jumps onto one, and starts furiously biting its neck.
In the evening Guntar had a new tiger-pelt coat and a liking for raw tiger meat.
After leaving said village, the couple is attacked by some whales. Being most of the time under the water, little could they do against the whales; then Lars did something that many man would consider idiotic, while Guntar considered genious: he jumped onto the back of a whale that was getting back under water, and started stab it into it's head with his sword. Other whales wanted to help the attacked one, but they only gave themselves as targets for the furious Lars, who it is said that killed three whales that day.
The Tale ends with them getting back to the port to which Guntar was planning long ago to bring the shark he wrestled and, after saying farewell to eachother and exchanging gifts (a snow-tiger fur cloak and a whale skin jacket), going back to their own homes.
Many historians from both Anglea and the Baronies have found enough evidence to sustain the historicity of the fact.

''The Guildman and the wolf''

Skymonger:
"The Guildsman and the Wolf is a metaphorical play on words regarding an ongoing 35 year feud between the Mercantile Guilds and the Wolf Bandits.

The guilds, having been established in the vastness, constantly ship trade goods too and from Chaladon through Abermar valley. The Wolf bandits, Established at the bottom of the Abermar valley, set the groundwork for an Ongoing war of raids between the two proud sides.
The Funny thing is, Wolf bandits are among the more decent kind of bandits in the world, you wouldn't know at a first glance given how they often wear Gray Wolf hides and Shaman masks to terrorize their foes.
Yet, having been established in a river valley, they were always well off in resources and never actively raided passing ships unless they were in dire straits, picking targets that had absolutely what they needed through their information networks and never slaughtering indiscriminately.

Now, the reason for their feud is...A Certain notable Guildsmen had apparently gotten sick of his Cargo ships being raided, even if the losses were barely noticeable in his accounts.
His response was a small fleet from Arashi comprised of Bandit hunters. Their job was to tail a Raid fleet from the Wolf bandits to one of their homes and Promptly turn the place into ash as a threat.
And so they did.
Not a single person was spared in the Massacre. Women, children, it made no difference to these hunters, all were bandits to be burned alive in their eyes.
And so, to this day, All wolf bandits actively seek out Guild ships in violent revenge for the lack of mercy that single greedy guildsman had.

(Side note. Apparantly this Guildsman had a Stroke and died when he saw his profits plummet after 2 months of Wolf raids, But wolf bandits continue due to the belief that another Guildsman is just the same.) 

Wolf bandits no longer raid ships from Chaladon or any other faction ship in Abermar valley, they hunt guild ships as a matter of honor with rapid and Furious interventions.
A sentiment that has them secretly kept well armed and trained by both the Baronies and the Angleans.



-Echoes of a Past once lost.

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