Any Argonian who stood in his way was hewn asunder, children as well. He proved one terrible, bloody day that his prodigious skill with the axe could be used against people as well as trees. The merchants reconsidered, but Juhnin took it on his own to break our spirit. It was our home, and the Hist, once gone, would never return.
The old Argonian woman looked to the dusty ground and sighed, "Of course, we Argonians cried out against it. They hired a woodsman named Juhnin to start clearing the sacred arbors for profit." Many of them fairly glistened with sap, which made the Dwemer merchants greedy. "Most of the trees that grew here had very thin ichor in their branches, but not the Hist. "Some of your scientists discovered that distilling a certain tree sap, molding it and drying it, they could create a resilient kind of armor called resin," said Sigerthe. When the Dwemer came, we allowed them to use the plants as they needed them, provided they never touched the Hist, which are sacred to us and to the land.
"When there were Argonians only in this land, we never cut trees for we had no need for fuel or wooden structures such as you use. Her name was Sigerthe, and she said that her family had lived in Lorikh centuries before the Dwemer arrived, when it was a great and beauteous forest. It was not until she met an old Argonian woman who worked at the water factory that Kamdida found a friend. Her mother's family took Kamdida and her younger brother Nevith in, and was very kind to the orphans, but she felt lonely in the alien village.
Here there was no shade, little water, and a great open sky. She was used to the forestland of the north where her father's family had haled. Kamdida arriving by caravan looked at her new home with despair. No vegetation of any kind grew in Lorikh, though there were blackened vestiges of long dead trees scattered throughout the town. He hamlet village of Lorikh was a quiet, peaceful Dwemer community nestled in the monochrome grey and tan dunes and boulders of the Dejasyte.
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