Digital painting of people building a log structure and cooking meat in a forest clearing.

Sunlit medieval clearing at dawn on a gentle slope: left – towering gray cliffs rising out of frame; right – a full-flowing river with visible current; background – sparse conifer forest. Five exiles, first day on the new site, all in dynamic action: 1. **Einar Rekovod** (≈2 m tall, massive male, short dark hair, skipper-style beard, scar on left cheek) walking forward with determined stride, carrying one end of a huge log on his shoulder; his two-handed flamberge sword is strapped across his back. 2. **Heldin Boledar** (≈1.85 m tall, wiry male, tousled light-brown hair and braided beard) at the rear of the same log, balancing it on his shoulder with one hand while in his other hand he grips a small axe and a coil of rope, muscles tense. 3. **Sigvar Zharoved** (≈1.8 m tall, stocky male, sides of head shaved with Viking braids, soot-smudged face) standing beside a low campfire: he is butchering a freshly killed boar, dropping thick chunks of meat into a cooking pot, focused and strong. 4. **Astrid Kamnevzor** (medium height female, slender frame, short sleek dark hair) under the half-built lean-to frame: she is pounding a wooden stake with a mallet, eyes narrowed in concentration as she aligns the poles. 5. **Yorna Rostoles** (medium height female, strong build, long red hair in two front braids) next to Astrid: she is layering fresh fir boughs over the lean-to’s roof, placing each branch precisely to form a waterproof cover. On the ground around them: scattered axes, wooden See more