History Recap / AThingOfVikingsChapter100TheTurningOfYears

* CruelMercy: Savage declares a young thrall a freedman. The catch? He has to leave the Berserker's holdings with nothing but the clothes on his back and no provisions ''right in the middle of winter'' with no reasonable expectation of him surviving the journey. Toireasa and Dagur are horrified but neither could openly protest.

* TheyDo: Sigurd and Sophia are officially wed.

* {{Transgender}}: The wife of the Bog Burglar Aldith is a trans woman, or Loki-touched as Cami refers to her.

->'''''Yule''': Traditional term for the Norse holidays marking the beginning of the Winter season, as well as to the general early winter months. The holy days proper begin with the Winter Solstice in late December and run for a period of one week in total, although preparations and lead-up activities occupy many of the weeks beforehand. During the Yule-time, numerous feasts, sacred meals, and sacrifices are made in the hope of a good harvest in the following year. Of primary focus are the deities '''Frigga, Freyja''', and '''Freyr''', with some traditions also paying homage to '''Sif'''. These gods, in their roles of fertility, growth, and prosperity, are petitioned for their aid, and in the cases of Frigga and Freyja, for intercession with their husband '''Odin''' as he rides at the head of the '''Wild Hunt'''. It is specifically noted that one does not invoke Odin during Yule, for fear of drawing the attention of him and his hunting party.''

* CruelMercy: Savage declares a young thrall a freedman. The catch? He has to leave the Berserker's holdings with nothing but the clothes on his back and no provisions ''right in the middle of winter''. Toireasa and Dagur are horrified but neither could openly protest.

* AppleOfDiscord: Rifts have started forming within the Bog Burglar tribe over the Hairy Holligans' dragons and the tribe's overall relationship with Berk. Many want dragons of their own, but under Berk's laws, only allied clans can have them, and the only clan that counts towards that within the Bog Burglars is the chieftess'. There's also the huge power disparity that now exists between them and the Hairy Hooligans. Berk's citizens now outnumber them by several orders of magnitude and because of the dragons, even women who before would sooner join the Bog Burglars, like Jonna and Reidun, would rather join Berk. For all these reasons, Aldith brings up the question of why she shouldn't take her family and petition Stoick for allied clan status. Others dispute that this would cost the Bog Burglars their sovereignty, and even if they do decide to all join Berk, there's the sticky issue that at least one of them, Roswynn, was exiled from Berk. Bertha manages to temporarily contain the situation by announcing that they will hold a Thing to discuss the issue later in the winter, but admits that it may very well be the last Thing they do as a tribe.

* CruelMercy: Savage declares a young thrall a freedman. The catch? He has to leave the Berserker's holdings with nothing but the clothes on his back and no provisions right in the middle of winter. Toireasa and Dagur are horrified but neither could openly protest.

* CruelMercy: Savage declares a young thrall a freedman. The catch? He has to leave the Berserker's holdings with nothing but the clothes on his back and no provisions. Toireasa and Dagur are horrified but neither could openly protest.

* TigerByTheTail: Dagur hates himself and the Berserkers, considering the majority of his own people monsters. But he can't do anything about it because the moment he starts becoming more like Oswald the Agreeable than the Antagonistic, the Berserkers will turn on him.

* CruelMercy: Savage declares a young thrall a freedman. The catch? He has to leave the Berserker's holdings with nothing but the clothes on his back and no provisions. Toireasa and Dagur were horrified but neither could openly protest.

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