Plate 04 · Section II.1

Talionwe


Copperfold, the Sixtongue Roads · Warm iron · 9 living names

Talionwe reads plates for a living. Treaty jurisprudence, precedent, and a working opinion on all eleven contradictory rulings about indirect killing. A crossing under its charter gives Talionwe another income.

Talionwe is Undivided. Its shape is an instrument, and its loyalty runs to the roughly two hundred beings in the world it considers truly relevant. A petitioner gets further with an offer than with an appeal to local kinship. Its institutions are occult. Authority runs through cults, creditors and people who know things, and the offices at Copperfold are held by whoever the house finds it convenient to seat.

Cargo that paid at the river mouth pays again to cross the neck.
Cargo that paid at the river mouth pays again to cross the neck.

The holding


Vaeloren — the second toll on a single voyage

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hex 13,21 · cell r6c4 · sea Marked: the iron-shod roller track over the headland

Granite forest headland over the Sixtongue Roads: elven charter house, portage track, factors' anchorage below.

Granite carries the headland and the soil on top is a few inches of leaf mould under oak and pine, so Vaeloren victuals off other people's ground. The charter house stands on the seaward shoulder in dressed stone older than any wharf in the Sixtongue Roads, and below it the roller track runs across the neck to the factors' anchorage, where deep-sea hulls lie waiting on pilots. Water comes off two headland springs, beef and eels and barley off the Ebbfurrow reed grazing, landed in the anchorage at half tide. Aurelgate's gate is three days' pull west and the outer roads open south of the point.

Connections


Everything dragged over the neck pays, and everything drafted in the charter house is paid for.

Allies takes this house’s side 2

Neutral trades, and no more than that 4

Enemies has something open against it 2

The full account — 8 houses, 10 arrangements

Everything dragged over the neck pays, and everything drafted in the charter house is paid for. Draveholt's hulls sell at the roads under a title the harbour court will hear only because Vaeloren registers them for a twentieth, that court having refused Amasekan seal seating order in three cases out of four; the same yard supplies the rollers, cradle work and three hundred fathom of chain on a seventh-year order, paid on the harbour court's schedule and revised at first quotation. Quorravel's beacon oil and cordage go out on six-month bonds, priced a quarter higher since the plate began to open and secured in cargo held ashore. The opinion that a fishery is a holding was drafted here for Sumizuki, and the second opinion has been declined four times.

  • out 11 Isperil law

    The fourth and the ninth of the eleven rulings on indirect killing were pleaded by these two houses on opposite sides, both arising from a underground passage flooded above a gate in 233 AF with the hold's Wright inside it. Talionwe argued that water released into one's own workings cannot be a Clause I act; Isperil argued that a hold is a gate and a gate can be shut, and the second court accepted that without disturbing the first.

  • out 31 Belgrund law

    Three coast houses retained Talionwe to challenge Belgrund's fodder surcharge on Forge-bound carts and lost, on the pleading that hay sold at the gate is a sale and not a toll. Belgrund raised the surcharge again the following season, and Talionwe declines to take the case a second time on the same facts.

  • out · in 40 Draveholt licence · ore

    A hull sold at the Sixtongue Roads needs a title the harbour court will hear, and Talionwe registers Draveholt's sales for a twentieth of the price. That court has refused Amasekan seal seating order in three cases out of four, which is what the twentieth is really buying.

    Iron-shod rollers, cradle work and three hundred fathom of chain for Talionwe's portage come out of Draveholt's yard on an order renewed every seventh year. Talionwe pays on time and argues every quotation down.

  • out 35 Sumizuki law

    The opinion that a fishery is a holding, and that a holding can be overflown, was drafted at Talionwe for Sumizuki in the third century after the signing. Talionwe has declined four times since to write the second opinion, on the ground that the same wording would swallow its own portage.

  • out 27 Quorravel credit

    Talionwe supplies the beacon oil and the hulks' cordage on six-month bonds, and since Quorravel's plate began to open it has taken the security in cargo held ashore at Talionwe and priced the bond a quarter higher. Quorravel pays the new rate and has not asked for the old one back.

  • Cargo that has paid at the Emberrun mouth pays again to be dragged over Talionwe's portage, and Serathorne has twice asked the free-port court to rule the portage a second toll on one voyage. Talionwe answers in the elven charter form the court reserves for its written record, and the matter has not been listed in eleven years.

  • in 07 Thalassil grain

    Talionwe victuals off Thalassil's reed grazing, taking beef, eels and a poor barley landed at the factors' anchorage below the headland. Talionwe pays by drafting Thalassil's harbour-court pleadings in the written fifth language the court keeps for its record.

  • in 73 Wraymoor litigation · licence

    Wraymoor advanced six hundred bars against two seasons of portage receipts, then took the second season's take when the first came in short. Talionwe is suing at the free ports over a pledge collected twice, and all three of Wraymoor's names are on the pleadings.

    Talionwe lodges a certified copy of every Sixtongue factoring agreement at Wraymoor, since a Corvantine magistrate will not hear what a records office cannot produce, and Wraymoor keeps the Corvantine records office below the ridge. The fee is small, and that cabinet is most of the reason a house of three names is left alone on that shore.

Clerks at the harbour court say the fifth-language record is copied from drafts that leave Vaeloren, and the drafts are taken on trust. Said in the Sixtongue Roads

The public record


Plate
4 of 81
Seat
Copperfold
Holding
Vaeloren
Region
the Sixtongue Roads
Position
hex 13,21 in r6c4
Extent
a holding and its outfields (2 of 10)
Culture
Elder Reaches · among strangers here
Thick on this ground
Mixed, Amaseki, Corvantine
Iron
Warm
Living names
9
Roster
Small
Ancestry
Elf
Kinship
Undivided
Major activity
Ironletter
Minor activity
Tollgate
Tradition
Occult
Alignment
LN
Stake
Holds
Band
Middling
Weights
3

Arms


A single copper tooth gripped in a pair of bronze tongs, held above an open book of law whose page has been folded once, deliberately.

The Forge's register entry for Talionwe

Sable, a balance Argent; in base a portcullis Argent; a bordure of warm iron. (Plate 4; nine living names.)

The field colour is the house's tradition and the bound edge is the state of its plate, and neither is the house's to choose.