The Yale was a stream and settled area in the Eastfarthing. The Yalekins, a lesser branch of the Fallohide Buck-clan, had arrived here in the TA 1620's and immediately restarted an ancient feud with the Tooks and Pendles of the Green Hills. Several of the Yalekins had been slain in the woods , but the clan-hold was so closed to outsiders that the matter was little more than a rumor outside of the Yale. Grammy Yale, the bitter matriarch of the clan , planned on taking revenge. Her wild grandsons, Samwise Axeward and Lolly Snipe, both having served as scouts with a Cardolannon mercenary company, were the instruments of her schemes. Cooler heads in the clan were secretly trying to contact Blanco Fallohide to avoid murder and war.