Antecedors: 6000 Years

40 years have passed since the raiding party burned Brynhass to the ground. The women and children captured by raiders had since assimilated to Kurhass. However, even with the death of the violent chief Ledu, the path of destruction continued after Ledu’s son claimed the title of Chief. Kurhass was now a village that raided their neighbors and killed without mercy. Every time they raided another s...

64 years have passed since Tia married the man from Brynhass village and moved away from her family in Kurhass. Life in Brynhass was pleasant, with lots of sheep and horses and cows. Brynhass village was built along a series of small streams, and the rocks in the area were rich with copper. Despite being long time trading partners with the villages around them, Kurhass grew more isolated and event...

49 years have passed since our last episode. Bloom spent all her years caring for the sheep and the goats when she was having more children. By this time Bloom has already had ten children, eight of whom survived. In this episode we are follow the life of her middle daughter Tia, as she is courted by one of the young men from Kurhass. Every incident has an antecedent, and every individual has an a...

6 years have passed since Luddy was killed by the bear. Because of his sacrifice the hunters were able to hunt enough meat to get the village through the grain famine. Over the years, Kurhass village diversified its reliance on any one type of food. They increased hunting, and fishing, and even bred more sheep. In this story we follow the life of Luddy’s youngest daughter, Bloom. She was only six...

47 years have passed since Shay said good bye to her daughter. She moved to her husband’s village and never returned. Since that time a series of early spring droughts shattered the ability to harvest enough food for the winter. To prevent a famine, the villagers have concentrated their efforts on fishing and hunting to make up for the poor harvests. In this story we follow the life of Shay’s youn...

45 years have passed since Bran was swept away in a flash flood. The flooded banks of the Kur River produced the most abundant yields the village had ever experienced. For the first time grain had produced more food for the villagers than hunting. In this story we follow the life of Bran’s second child, Shay; she had many kids of her own, all of which enjoyed the abundance of food provided by the...

44 years have passed since our last episode, and Arth’s family blossomed, after he and his wife had ten sons and daughters. In this episode we follow the story of Bran, his eldest son. Despite loving to ride his horse when he was young, as Bran grew into his Middle Ages, he developed a love for the harvest. Planting crops was new to the village and he saw a great need for spending his time plantin...

45 years have passed since our last episode, and the young girl Anaya has grown up, married a young hunter from the village and had a son, whom she named after her younger brother Arth. Unfortunately for Arth, he was orphaned at a young age; his father was killed on a hunting trip, and his mother, Anaya, died giving birth to her second child. The entire village stepped in, and raised Arth, until h...

10 years have passed since our last episode, and Leona has had two healthy daughters, Anaya and Arth. Leona has not had it easy, as five out of seven pregnancies have ended with miscarriages. It this episode we follow Anaya and her little brother as the village of Kurhass is buried in snow during a dark winter night. On nights like this, the only safe place is next to a warm fire. Every incident h...

35 years have passed since the snow bear attacked the village Kurhass. Brave grew up to be one of the best hunters in the village and led the great hunt for many years. He and his wife had two daughters and were pregnant with a third when complications tragically took her life in the middle of a cold winter.  Brave never took a second wife, and he spent more and more time away from the village, le...

41 years have passed since young Sparrow and his siblings rode across the expansive prairies and encountered the hostile tribe of men who decorated their heads in the fur of wolves. No one ever rode that far East again, and stories circulated the village about violent tribes that dressed as wolves. In the 41 years since our last episode, Sparrow passed away in a tragic hunting accident, leaving hi...

26 Years have passed since our adventure with Shrew, and the village of Kurhass is still new to riding horses. Shrew married a beautiful woman from the village and had several boys and girls. Unfortunately, life was still hard for the hunter gatherers, and Shrew’s wife died in child birth. His surviving four children followed in his footsteps and spent most of their lives riding horses, a skill th...

Our saga begins 6000 years ago, in a small hunter gatherer village on the Pontic Steppe. This is the flat grasslands north of the Black Sea, in modern day Eastern Ukraine. Life was simple in the village, and revolved around herd animals, hunting, and fishing. This was life before writing, before farming, and before the advance of Horse riding. It is in this tiny village of Proto-Indo-Europeans tha...