[center][b]Ards[/b][/center]

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Danr rose from his bedding at the first crack of dawn. One of the only people in the village important enough to have his own room in the tiny and cramped communal housing that the Ards currently had, he pushed through the fur hides serving as a curtain for his doorway. Some chieftain's hold he had, for the doorway was currently without a door. He almost tripped over a massive wolf that was slumbering right outside his room. 

As disturbing as it was to know that a massive wolf had been so close all night, the chief had to at least give his son some begrudging respect. The new wolves were tamed well, as evidenced by how the beast hadn't torn out Danr's throat while he slept.

Stepping over the wolf, he ceased entertaining thoughts of the wolves once he saw the scene before him. At least seventy people were strewn across the floor of [i]his[/i] mead hall, still asleep! With the four longhouses increasingly being filled with things like food stores, firewood, and now tamed wolves, there was less room in the crowded longhouses and so more people had taken residence in the central mead hall.

What kind of chieftain was he, to have to entertain seventy as his own tribesmen as permanent guests in his home for lack of housing for the tribe? What kind of village had such squalor and crowded, unsanitary conditions? It could not continue.

After he ate a hearty breakfast and allowed the others to do the same, the chieftain began barking out orders to expand the current mead hall and longhouses. As Danr imagined this small cluster of buildings atop the hill becoming the center of a much larger settlement, these structures would be made much larger and grander than the rest.

Using all of the remaining timber and other building materials that they had in storage, the Ards began to construct many smaller homes around the existing edge of the village. With a growing tribe combined with more and more room being needed for storage, this additional housing was long overdue. Still, Danr was planning ahead, so hopefully it would be sufficient living space for the time being and a ways into the future. If not, it would still be an improvement to have even the smallest bit more breathing room inside the communal longhouses and the mead hall.
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[hider=Summary]
-Using what timber they have left, the Ards are expanding the mead hall and existing four central longhouses. 
-Many additional, smaller longhouses are being built around the existing cluster of buildings [/hider]