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Submitted by David C. on Mon, 8/8/2011 at 5:04pm

Over the next few months Ohren can be seen traveling to the forests outside of town gathering logs, flat stones, saplings and large sections of treebark. He clears a large area and begins digging some holes. There is one large hole 4 ft deep and 60ft in diameter and there are 5 smaller holes surrounding the large hole. each 4ft deep and 20ft in diameter.  He lines each hole with flat stones and makes a hearth in each. In the large hole he places a stone basin over the hearth. He begins making walls around the large hole with the logs he has gathered. Throughout town hammering can be heard as well as a dull thud every now and then as his club makes contact with flesh instead of wood. Through it all, Ohren makes no sound. He stops occasionally for water but eats very little food and when approached he speaks no words to anyone. After completing the walls of the structure he seals the seams with clay and mud. He stacks rocks up about 2ft around the outside of the walls and fills the cracks between them with clay as well. He then begins placing the pieces of bark on the outside walls layering them like rugged scales. He then thatches the roof and layers more bark on top of the roof overlapping so the water will fall off the roof and not leak into the structure. he then stocks the large hut with a large supply of wood and water and covers the entrance with a large thick animal hide. When finished the center structure is 10ft off of the ground. 
With the main structure completed, he starts construction on the smaller huts. using similar methods he creates 5 smaller versions of the center structure, each with the doorway facing towards the center structure. Ohren, tired and sweaty, then kneels infront of the main structure. He cuts his hand and begins to smear his blood around the doorway whispering a silent prayer to Arimir. He does the same with the hut closest to the Large structure. With the ritual complete takes a piece of flat bark affixes it to a thick branch and scribbles in his own blood "THE CRIMSON QUARTER". He hammers the sign into the ground between the newly created structures and the existing parts of town.
He then stumbles to the tavern dragging his feet. He collapses on the floor and keeps whispering only one word "water...water....water...water"