Bohemian Rhapsody
Current Saga Year
1271 AD
Saga Mythic Europe Ordo Hermei Lusus
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The Zameck vesnice extends north from the ridge along the track towards Breclav, south toward the Mokrina, and east toward the Morava river. For the most part, houses are scattered along the tracks, with a few clusters near the Zameck.

As one travels south past Breclav, one passes a well-built watermill, with a breast-shot wheel countersunk halfway into a stone-lined pit. The nearby residences of the miller families squat near the north bank of a wide canal that branches off from the Dyje River, flowing east. The south side of the canal is an immense earthen berm lined with stones and topped with trees and brambles (roses and blackberries). At night, the canal appears impassable. During the day, however, a stone bridge with seven ribbed arches spans the canal from the Breclav road. Crossing the canal, one encounters a packed earth road, with river rock embedded in the dirt to fill the ruts left by passing carts. To either side of the road are the cottages of hunters and woodsmen, spaced along the road on either side and interspersed with small gardens, patches of blackberries and raspberries, and stands of fruit-bearing trees. Traveling southeast along this road, one begins to see the ridge more clearly as it rises above the surrounding forest to the south.

The most visible features are a large scalenohedral megalith of whitish-gray calcite rising over fifteen paces high at the southern end of the ridge, and a stand of tall trees, clustered closely together on the northern end of the ridge. The stand of trees is the Sacrarium Nemoris, a soaring organic interpretation of a gothic church. Terraced atria of clover lawns, bordered by hedges and flowering trees, descend the sides of the ridge in a staggered pattern around the church, with a path winding via ramps down the terraces around the northern end of the ridge. To the south of the terraced area one can see the eroded ruins of an earthen embankment about five paces deep, extending in a broken oval centered on the ridge. Inside the ruins of the embankment, the weathered remains of foundations can be seen: ruins of a large hall in the center and faint remains of smaller buildings set against the embankment and scattered across the space between. Most of the hill is covered with clover and flowers, with ivy growing over the embankment and rubble.

As the road to the ridge bends right (southwest) toward the river and the Sacrarium Nemoris, a second track branches to the left (east), where a large two-story log and timber manor house, the Zameck, sits quietly amidst the surrounding barns, stable, and chapel. Beyond the Zameck, the second track runs farther east, where carefully tended fields and cottages are visible in the distance. About six miles farther east along this road, a second vesnice (village) on the Morava River has been settled by families from Porta Germaniae.  The gardens, fields, and orchards are filled with wheat, barley, oats, hops, grapevines, beets, radishes, turnips, onions, cabbages, peas, beans, parsnips, carrots, asparagus, cucumbers, melons, apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc. The bounteous quality of the crops in this small area is amazing.

South of the Zameck, a smaller track leads toward the Mokrina (swamp). A small cluster of cottages is just visible from the Zameck; farther south beyond the cottages lie a few scattered buildings; a chandlery and associated outbuildings, placed far enough downwind from the Zameck and the ridge to segregate their distinctive odors away from the rest of the covenant.

Although this is a "mundane" part of the covenant, the covenant buildings and fields near Breclav have a Divine aura of 1, while the various dwellings have Divine auras of 2, and the small Zameck chapel and Sacrarium Nemoris have Divine auras of 4. The covenfolk are mostly good Christian folk, and the Dominion spreads out from Breclav as far as its church bells can be heard. The Dominion does not extend to the ridge, apart from the Sacrarium Nemoris, and stops short of the Mokrina.

At the southern end of the ridge, about 350 paces south of the white megalith, two tall beech trees curve toward each other, meeting with upper branches intertwined to form an immense arboreal arch.

 

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