Hahl-thacki
Flind Game of Skill
No one knows when the Flind began playing Hahl-thacki. It has always served as a past time to idle away the long evening hours during the deepest parts of the winter in the Frosted Mountains and if you ask anyone in the Flietch-ta Empire, it probably predates Cith Narnet's claim as the first of the Flind emperors.The game is simple. Each participant throws a small, hand-sized bird, at a target, usually about twenty-paces away, attempting to stick it beak first in the wood. As the game originated when Flind were little more than hunter-gathers, the birds used were originally live animals, part of the skill required was to subdue the creates. Any bird that sticks in the target is considered a hit. Targets for Hahl-thacki likely started as little more than "that pine tree over there," they have become standardized - several concentric circles where the participant receives more "hits" for the smaller, inner circles than the larger, outer ones. Games are typically played unit predetermined number of hits.
While a few of the more barbaric frontier settlements and avid players still claim to use live birds - generally starlings - for the game, almost all games are held using birds carved from alder, its distinctive red tones considered both attractive and an homage to the game's more brutal past. Indeed the art of carving birds is a well respected one in the Empire. Owning a set of finely carved birds has, over the centuries, become something of a status symbol.
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