Serialized Almanac of the Heartland Rider

***The Almanac of the Heartland Rider*** is the main publication that covers the goings on of Sangfielle. It started as an almanac but needed to be published so frequently that it became more of a newspaper.

The (as yet unnamed) editor of the Almanac is the narrator of *Sangfielle*, as he is chronicling the adventures of the Blackwick Group.

Below is a collection of all writing in *The Almanac of the Heartland Rider* (as of Sangfielle 56: Six Travelers: Pickman), other than episode introductions.

This page contains information that is by its nature a spoiler. If you do not wish to know the secrets of the heartland, please turn back.

## Organizations

I write "appeared" because, in fact, they were deeply indebted to old Ribbadon. As the two grew in age and worry, they sought to make good on their debt, but there was one problem: They had, of course, spent that silver coin many decades ago, so they were at a loss. Until, they realized, with all their wealth, they could forge a coin like the one they were given, and fool the old frog.
Wheelbarrows filled with silver and gold were led to Ribbadon’s court, and in a single swipe of his tongue, he swallowed years of profit in an instant, and then bellowed his judgment. "You have paid me back one more coin than you owe me, yet one less than you took." The brothers knew instantly that their deception had been for naught, but before they could object, a curse descended. "There is no fortune too rich in taste for my tongue, and until I have my coin, on your tongues will be the only way to hold *your* fortune."
When the brothers, their kin, their descendents, and even their servants returned home, they found that anything they’d carried with them had been turned into something else of the same weight. Gold coins turned lead. Prayer books transformed into straw. A rock to a diamond.
This is why you see those caravans now, hauling mysterious cargo across the grasslands and deserts of the heartland. They’re trading whatever it is they can, forever, in doomed worship of Ribbadon. Paying down interest. And looking for that old coin. They’ll tell you that the lesson is that you cannot stop change, and so you must lean in to the chaos. Let yourself and everything you have be changed by curse of the heartland. And they’ll demonstrate their new mastery over magics alchemical, illusionary, and alterative as proof of their philosophy’s power.

 **The Disciples of the Triadic Pyre:** Appropriately devoted to a trio of gods, the Triadic Pyre believe that entropy is the only certain thing in this world, and as such aim to master it. Recently began to mark workers willing to do their tasks in the mines with their brand.* I’ll say as little as I can because there are few words one can write about them that won’t guide them to you like a beacon, marking the ink, page, and writer to be burnt as fuel. The disciples worship a trio of gods that they call the Triadic Pyre, but it is hard to understand how these three beings — powerful though they may be — came first into alignment with each other.

From the Magistrates of the Second Canton, they took **Fulmina**, goddess of immediate justice, and appointed her ruler of the **Flame’s Spark**. From the terrible hierarchies of the locomotive Shape that runs across the heartland, they found a **burning god among iron trains**, whose name my lips dare not utter lest it lay its tracks towards you and I both, and aligned that beast with the **Fire Alight**. And finally, whether as cruel corruption or in a moment of lightness, they adopted the Ojantani **Arinpata, the Smiling God of Death** as their deity of **Ashen Remains**.

Nevertheless, they lost that fight. Many were killed directly, others enslaved, and some driven to barren lands in the hills, mountains, and wastes. The Telluricist Union comes from a group of the latter. A group of survivors, largely though not entirely Carpana, pulled together to survivor against all odds, combining know-how from this nation and that tribe, and developing new techniques and tools to make a hard life a little more livable. They sharpened knives, they aided the ill, they made elegantly simple machines, they studied the world around them.

## Ephemera

**A hymn found in the notes of Janek Polyte**

Her love is vast and nourishing.

Her glory does astound.

Thus in sin we're flourishing,

Tis sin to which we're bound.

With words we weave her love and ours,

And with our voices breathe:

A halt to death, a halt to stars,

A halt to what will be.

But listen, Mother-Beast, please know:

Tis love by which we've wrought

A world in which you're split in woe,

Instead of merely nought

Your love is vast and flourishing.

Your glory does astound.

Bless us with tears nourishing.

We’ll drink until we’re drowned.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 02: The Curse of Eastern Folly Pt. 2*"
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 01: The Curse of Eastern Folly Pt. 1*"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 53: Six Travelers: Hazard*"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 03: The Curse of Eastern Folly Pt. 3*"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 54: Six Travelers: Duvall*"
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 05: The Hymn of the Mother-Beast Pt. 1*"
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 20: What Happened at Bell Metal Station Pt. 4*"
8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 04: The Blackwick Group*"
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 34: Passage on the Jade Moon Pt. 3*"
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 35: Marrow in the Field*"
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 52: Six Travelers: Lyke*"
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 16: The Candle Factory Pt. 3*"
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 17: What Happened at Bell Metal Station Pt. 1*"
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 48: Dead in the Dust Pt. 1*"
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 14: The Candle Factory Pt. 1*"
16. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 31: Hark! The Citadel Beneath Pt. 4*"
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 18: What Happened at Bell Metal Station Pt. 2*"
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 33: Passage on the Jade Moon Pt. 2*"
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 32: Passage on the Jade Moon Pt. 1*"
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 22: Whispers in the City by the Sea*"
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 23: The Perpetual Oratorio of Davia Pledge Pt. 1*"
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 07: The Hymn of the Mother-Beast Pt. 3*"
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 23.6 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 09: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 1*"
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 11: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 3*"
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 13: Market Day in Blackwick*"
26. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 24: The Perpetual Oratorio of Davia Pledge Pt. 2*"
27. ↑ 27.00 27.01 27.02 27.03 27.04 27.05 27.06 27.07 27.08 27.09 27.10 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 19: What Happened at Bell Metal Station Pt. 3*"
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 42: Two Kinds of Quarry Pt. 1*"
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 44: Wax, Ichor, and Iron Pt. 1*"
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 08: The Hymn of the Mother-Beast Pt. 4*"
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 56: Six Travelers: Pickman*"
32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 30: Hark! The Citadel Beneath Pt. 3*"
33. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 29: Hark! The Citadel Beneath Pt. 2*"
34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 46: Wax, Ichor, and Iron Pt. 3*"
35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 35.6 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 39: Just Returns Pt. 3*"
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 15: The Candle Factory Pt. 2*"
37. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 37: Just Returns Pt. 1*"
38. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 55: Six Travelers: Es*"
39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 28: Hark! The Citadel Beneath Pt. 1*"
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 26: The Perpetual Oratorio of Davia Pledge Pt. 4*"
41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 47: Wax, Ichor, and Iron Pt. 4*"
42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 Episode description of "*Sangfielle 36: Marrow in the Bone*"
43. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 43: Two Kinds of Quarry Pt. 2*"
44. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 49: Dead in the Dust Pt. 2*"
45. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 10: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 2*"
46. ↑ Episode description of "*Sangfielle 06: The Hymn of the Mother-Beast Pt. 2*"