COYOTE, AND THE COMING OF THE THRASKS TO ARGOSIL

This story was shared with human storytellers and historians of Argosil by several dremmols from various villages. It has been theorized that the version of the story shared here contains scenes and conversations which were embellished, as none who recounted it witnessed the events firsthand. In other words, no one in Argosil can be certain that this story happened in precisely the way it’s been recorded. Still, this is the most complete and well-known version of the tale, compiled by renowned writer Xander Kos of Sitcrest, so it shall be repeated here.

Gedd the dremmol came from a village called Adwol, an old word that meant “sunbeam” in their language. It was a bright and sunny place cradled in a stretch of the Red Crescent Mountains. Natural snowberry bush patches grew close by, and many herds of habaral sheep passed through each year which the dremmols hunted. To a human, it often would have been so cold as to be uninhabitable, but to Gedd’s people, it was ideal.

The dremmols were all bluish in complexion, taller and hardier than humans on average, with snow-white hair. They were a naturally cold-resistant race, and seemed predisposed to living high up in the mountains where the air was thinner. When Gedd was a child, the dremmols had not yet come into contact with the humans that lived in southern Argosil, as their climes were rather inhospitable to each other.

Gedd had an older brother named Lars, and a younger sister named Myra. He and Lars often accompanied their father Bory on hunting and scavenging trips from very young ages. When Gedd was only eight years old, he scored his first notable kill with a bow and arrow.

It was a spotted habaral ram, and it had been standing on a cliff side roughly thirty yards out from where Gedd had been situated. The arrow pierced the ram’s neck and sent the beast tumbling down the mountain, crashing into rocks and ice features along the way, until it landed on a bed of packed snow. Gedd retrieved it with the help of his father and brother, and decided he would offer it up as a ritual sacrifice to the red-tinted moon they called Hadna.