Brakkenstone

Brakkenstone has entered a claim at the Forge that Thurmgrim's lower coal seam runs under Brakkenstone's gate and has been worked from the wrong side for sixty years. The filing went in the season after Thurmgrim's plate went cold, and Brakkenstone's pleadings make nothing of the date.

Thurmgrim coal goes over the shoulder to Brakkenstone's smelters, twelve hundred tons a year, on a contract cut in metal in 688 AF between two houses that both still hang on the ring. Since Thurmgrim went cold, Brakkenstone weighs at its own gate and pays at ninety days, and nobody at Thurmgrim has been able to say who would object.

Silver and lead pigs come down the Solmarch to the barge head, about nine hundred tons a season, and every one of them pays Ferrovane's toll on the way out. Brakkenstone has costed the drove road round to the west three times and the saving has come out short of the extra nine days each time.

Ferrovane has sued Brakkenstone over the smelter water channels, which take enough of the Thurmgar headwater that the Solmarch barge head has gone unnavigable in August four years out of nine. Ferrovane wants the draw capped by survey measure and Brakkenstone answers that a gate takes what a gate needs.

Brakkenstone supplied Farrowgate's mint with silver for the first ninety years after the signing, and when the Farrowgate plate cracked the dies stayed in the mint vault. Brakkenstone claims them against the unpaid last delivery in the only Corvantine action it has ever brought, adjourned since 214 AF.

Karagunn took a Brakkenstone daughter in 806 AF with the charcoal road above Karagunn settled on the match. Brakkenstone's temple side will not bury with Karagunn, so the settlement provides in both halves of the cut plate that the children are laid at Brakkenstone.

Sorrenmark's camp takes forty tons of bar iron and eight hundredweight of shoe stock a year off Brakkenstone, delivered to the road fork and billed at the legion rate, which is under the market. Brakkenstone treats the difference as the price of nobody quartering on its charcoal roads.

Two hundred quarters of barley and forty hundredweight of dried mushroom come over the southern pass to Steinvald each summer, priced against the pass standing open eighty days. Brakkenstone takes half the payment in treaty opinions, which it uses in its own gate-count disputes and considers the better half of the bargain.

The Sixth Gate cuts dolomite out of its own roof and sends three hundred hundredweight a season along the shoulder road to Brakkenstone, whose silver will not run without flux. Brakkenstone now takes delivery at its own gate and weighs there, a change it dates to the season the Emberkeel plate began to open.

The Sunjara iron furnaces burn less charcoal in winter than they make and send four thousand sacks up to Brakkenstone, measured in Sekhemrite loads and paid on the Kazdrunn hundredweight. The conversion has been disputed at every renewal since 780 AF and settled each time by splitting the difference and writing neither figure down.

Grimhaldr's kilns supply the firebrick that lines Brakkenstone's smelters, eleven thousand a year, and did so before the Grimhaldr plate went cold. Brakkenstone now pays into a hold account rather than to a person and has asked the Forge in writing whether that discharges the debt.

The second of Quellborne's chartered yards has entered an appearance against Brakkenstone in the headwater suit on behalf of shippers it declines to name. Quellborne's filing gives the barges delayed and the tonnage lost, and no owner for either.

An Thalassil heir married into a Brakkenstone branch in 796, and both houses being Kinsworn, the azarketi line and the dwarf clan each entered the children on their own roll. Neither the Forge nor the harbour court in the Sixtongue Roads will say which roll governs, and the reed-grazing rents have gone into escrow for eight years.

A dozen of Brakkenstone's test clerks are at Cuiveril at any time, on a three-year course in records office form and Sekhemrite water accounting at ninety silver a head a year. Brakkenstone pays in refined silver by weight and takes a copy of the test tables as part of the fee, which is the only part of the arrangement its clan assembly has ever approved.