EventAcross the pillars
The Hunchbacked Cattle
The scouts report it first as a brown fog on the horizon, then as a hill that moves, and by noon there is no denying it: cattle, humpbacked and shaggy, in numbers no man of the column has words for. The herd parts around the line of march the way a river parts around a rock, closes again behind it, and continues to the edge of the world in every direction. The quartermaster rides through it slowly, counting nothing, saying nothing, wearing the look of a man who has walked into a storehouse the size of a province.
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Search for the Kingdom of QuiviraExpeditionFrom on monthly · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
Triggered by 1
- Search for the Kingdom of QuiviraEach month
Scripting 5
Requires 2
Grants 3
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_quivira.13.title The Hunchbacked Cattle
desc = seven_cities_quivira.13.desc The scouts report it first as a brown fog on the horizon, then as a hill that moves, and by noon there is no denying it: cattle, humpbacked and shaggy, in numbers no man of the column has words for. The herd parts around the line of march the way a river parts around a rock, closes again behind it, and continues to the edge of the world in every direction. The quartermaster rides through it slowly, counting nothing, saying nothing, wearing the look of a man who has walked into a storehouse the size of a province.
historical_info = seven_cities_quivira.13.historical_info The Coronado expedition's chroniclers struggled to describe the buffalo: humpbacked cows bearded like goats, they wrote, in herds that took days to ride through and left the plain trampled bare behind them. The column and its allies lived on the herds entirely during the plains march, and the veterans' accounts speak with more wonder about the cattle than Quivira itself. Several concluded that the herds were the only wealth the country offered, and that Spain already had cattle.
outcome = positive
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