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Although it doesn't count, here is my build for the leaving home challenge : DSC_1958 by skaforhire, on Flickr In the middle of the desert the people need to be tougher than the land, or the land will swallow them whole. For almost a millennium small communities in the Parched Lands (the Eastern Kaliphlin Desert) have relied on aqueduct systems to bring water to homesteads scattered throughout the remote desert. The cool water that originates in the Rakath mountains is the life blood of many who live near or along the Mountainside road (I don't think we have a name for that road that runs parallel to the Rakath Mountains). Often these people keep to themselves, trade with mountain mummies who come down during the trading season, and produce just enough subsistence to survive. It is a hard life, but an honest life. Artur Bolingbroke is no different, as long as anyone could remember, the Bolinbrokes had a farmstead along the great aqueduct. By all accounts he is an honest and hardworking man that does not mind giving a weary traveler a cot and shelter from the dust storms that plague the area. Every day it is either plant, weed, harvest, or till the small patches of soil his family has worked over the years. This season things have been tough, out of the two small plots, only one now grows. With the elemental attacks disturbing the aqueduct and reservoir system up the line, water connection has been tenuous at best. Artur was only able to save one plot by diverting all of his water there. Today the water flows well, and normally Artur and his two sons, Milton and Henri would get to work tilling the dead field and replanting. But today is different. DSC_1953 by skaforhire, on Flickr Artur has heard the call to battle. His wife Alinia is angry that her husband has decided to take up arms. With a new daughter, Olsa, still a babe in her arms, she will have to run the farmstead by herself while he is gone. She has told him that " War is for rich men and fools," and that "the world never cares a lick for the parched lands dirt farmers, so why should a dirt farmer go and risk his neck for the world?," and "Revolword? he isn't going to come here. What did he ever do to you?" But Artur knows that he must go, it is his sacred duty to protect the land -- the land he tills and the land his sons will inherit. DSC_1934 by skaforhire, on Flickr So he goes, and he takes Bella, their cow and their rickety old cart and hopes that both will provide him with enough money for a decent suit of light armor and a weapon. And he hopes that when he returns that with all this war out of the way he will be able to sell that weapon and that suit of armor for a new cow and cart to keep his farm running. If he makes it home... Alinia is mad, she needs that cows milk, but Artur knows with the crop failure there will barely be enough food to feed his three children and his wife, let alone their limited livestock and himself. So he ignores her accusing gaze and Henri's plea to take him along to fight in the war, and he accepts Milton's apple and gives them all a hug and a kiss before he leads Bella towards Petraea and onto Queenscross. DSC_1939 by skaforhire, on Flickr DSC_1940 by skaforhire, on Flickr DSC_1962 by skaforhire, on Flickr DSC_1941 by skaforhire, on Flickr Sorry, still don't have a good way to get a sheet hunt for a clear background here.
