Karonhiakèn:iate'

Karonhiakèn:iate' was an Iroquois village in northeastern Vinland. The settlement's leaders were known to be Konwahawíhshon and Karonhiaktátie'.

History[edit | edit source]

In 875, Eivor Varinsdottir of the Raven Clan found the settlement, west of the mountain top Tiotenontatierénhton, after tracking a Norse man called Olav the Unlucky for information. Eivor ventured into the settlement, where she was met by its leaders, Konwahawíhshon and Karonhiaktátie, who stopped her from going further. Despite the language barriers, the village leaders saw Eivor's connection with her raven, Synin, and allowed passage. Konwahawíhshon soon led Eivor towards a cave behind the waterfall, where Eivor heard the ramblings of a fellow Norse. Inside the cave, Eivor found and talked with Olav about her target, Gorm Kjotvesson. Olav divulged that Gorm resided in one of his camps and that the natives traded war wares for iron ores, which could be used to improve Eivor's equipment.^[1]

After finding and assassinating Gorm,^[2] Eivor traveled back to Karonhiakèn:iate to inform Olav of Gorm's demise. Afterwards, Eivor and Olav joined the night gathering, where Konwahawíhshon was telling a story to her people. After the story, Konwahawíhshon gave Eivor the chance to share a story of her own, which was about Loki's betrayal and murder of Odin's son, Baldr. Afterwards, Eivor gave the Crystal Ball she had recovered from Gorm to the village leaders and bid them farewell.^[3]