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Second Interlude: One Mountain
Overview
The interlude recounts the storied origins of Wie Lon Temple School and its devastation during the Many Nations War. A young Ayt Yu leads surviving trainees into the wilderness before encountering One Mountain Society scouts. Kaul Seningtun’s declaration of unity crystallizes the “One Mountain” ideal, transcending clan divisions and shaping Green Bone identity.
Summary
The interlude traces Wie Lon Temple School’s founding by three Green Bone masters to unify training, scholarship, and Deitist tradition. Built in Kekon’s interior, it drew pupils from many local family clans, creating island-wide methods and connections that elevated Green Bones into an influential class over centuries.
After the Many Nations War, the current campus formed by merging clandestine wartime training sites. The original Wie Lon had been burned by Shotarian soldiers, and nearly a hundred masters and novices who resisted were captured, stripped of jade, tortured, and executed, cementing the school’s martyrdom and mystique.
Amid the destruction, sixteen-year-old trainee Ayt Yugontin led younger students into the forest, evading Shotarian searchers through the night. At dawn, scouts from the One Mountain Society found them. When Ayt Yu demanded their clan, scout Kaul Seningtun replied that clan no longer mattered—“All Green Bones in these mountains are brothers”—marking a defining statement of unity beyond clan allegiances.
Who Appears
- Ayt Yugontin (Ayt Yu)Sixteen-year-old Wie Lon trainee who leads younger students to safety during the school’s destruction.
- Kaul SeningtunOne Mountain Society scout who rescues the trainees and declares Green Bone unity beyond clan.
- Shotarian soldiersInvading forces who burn Wie Lon, capture and execute resisting masters and novices.
- One Mountain SocietyResistance group that shelters the fleeing students and embodies cross-clan Green Bone solidarity.
- Wie Lon Temple SchoolHistoric Green Bone institution; founded to unify training; later destroyed and reconstituted postwar.