I thought the Qua Nie series was on hold, or dead. As the last two weeks have meandered on I find the impetus to change the series into an alternate history. The current outline has Qua Nie and his fellow spiritual seekers joining the Iroquois Confederation survivors and the Red River Valley Metis to create an underground confederacy. The good news is that I have an excuse to visit the Red River Valley and the routes from there to the Ottawa River.