Faenlorn

The vault at Faenlorn holds 60,000 silver of Aldemarch granary receipts, lodged as security for the garrison-road contract of 794. Faenlorn's clerks post the assessment twice a year, once by Corvantine survey and once by elven reckoning, and Aldemarch pays the difference rather than argue it.

Birch billets and charcoal ship down the gulf from Faenlorn to Grivane, four thousand sacks a season, against a lien on the slag revenue that Faenlorn renews each year. The lien is drawn in an elven form and no Falkvald assembly has been asked to read it.

Faenlorn's vault has been buying Malgareth paper at something near a third of face from anyone willing to sell it, and files each purchase at the Forge as it goes. Faenlorn's committee has also entered a claim to Malgareth's drove track as security, which Malgareth's factors dispute and Sturmhalt's Watch would sooner not see decided either way.

An advance of two hundred and twenty marks made to Prospern in 779 AF has gone three assemblies without being formally read, which every bench on the March treats as abandonment. Faenlorn's committee treats it as outstanding and has begun entering the interest at the Forge instead, where nothing has to be said aloud.

That same road was cut across the head of the birch hollow in 771 AF and has been widened twice since, each widening taking a few more yards of the only spade-deep loam in the cell. Faenlorn has entered the encroachment at the Forge every year for thirty years and asks only that the encroachment be recorded, not that the road be closed.

Eight hundred marks on the wool and two hundred on the barley in the hollows go out from Faenlorn's committee every spring against the Wolds' clip. Two bad barley years would leave a good part of the Reach's lending resting on a house whose stake is entered as Breaks, and the committee has minuted that rather than acted on it.

Forty pilgrim parties a season are escorted the last stretch to Faenlorn's gate by men off the Wolds' watch road, at two marks a head. Belcarrow charges the same for parties that asked for no escort, on the reasoning that the road was walked either way.

Pilgrim season at Faenlorn runs eleven weeks and takes a hundred and forty quarters of barley and three hundred sheep, all of it off the Wolds and all of it carted in through the one gated track. Belcarrow sets the price once the pilgrim numbers are known, which Faenlorn has complained about in writing and continues to pay.

A Anvilbrand bond of 84 AF, three thousand marks at four in the hundred, still stands at face in Faenlorn's vault, because striking it would oblige the committee to rule on whether a cracked house can be a debtor. Faenlorn files the claim afresh each year, and Karagunn, which works that ground now, files an answer saying it holds nothing but the rock.

Ordwaine takes six of Faenlorn's counting-clerks a year for a two-year course in double reckoning, paid out of a standing deposit at Faenlorn that Ordwaine keeps above the fee. The archive also keeps the fair copy of the lodgement register, so a dispute over a season's Falkvald silver at Faenlorn is settled from a book four cells south.

Falkvald crews who used to lodge the season's silver in Faenlorn's vault have begun lodging it behind Cindralis's gate instead, at a lower fee and against a receipt a coast court will honour. Faenlorn has taken the matter up as interference with a charter older than the compound, and Cindralis has answered that a charter is not a rate.

Pilgrims for Faenlorn land at Nuirendil's rock wharves and are carried up the coast in its boats, four marks a head including the return. Faenlorn subscribes for the whole season in advance, so a thin year falls on the Reach and not on the ferryman.