Never leave your Taaq at home

The Taaq tools has a number of uses. When the wolf comes within range, the Taaq action menu lets you jab it to fend him off. When you are building your shelter, you can use it to fasten down your cords on the ice or hold up your ridgeline for your tarp shelter. It could cut sapling or make holes in the ice very quickly! Like a long stick or pole, it is useful for vaulting across streams to avoid getting wet and hypothermia.

Never leave home without your Taaq! ;-)

Fish nets under the ice

[offtopic]

In Greenland, it is the polar night that the Inuit hold most dear. “Taaq” in the Kalaallisut language means “it is dark.” Nearly four months long in the Thule region (known as Qaanaaq today), this taaq period is far from the somber burial shroud we might imagine. In fact, the Inuit compare it to a mother’s warm embrace. Not only do they treasure the darkness, the polar night is the season in which their laughter can most often be heard. It is the time for visiting, and by virtue of these gatherings, their community bonds are reinforced, helping them feel secure and more resolute in their encounters with the austere environment. But it is through their oqaaluktuara – storytelling – that the Inuit most strongly connect with the expansive universe, which they poetically interpret as a cathedral whose roof was lost to infinity.