Grimhaldr

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.

Grimhaldr firebrick lined Anvilbrand's kilns for a hundred and forty years and four deliveries are still owed for. Grimhaldr's names ran out before it could sue, and its creditors now cite the unpaid entry as an asset.

Tessarel's forge hearths and roasting floors are lined with Grimhaldr firebrick, six hundred courses a year down the Redgate road and across the inlet head. Grimhaldr has no living name to renegotiate the price, so Tessarel has been paying the 794 AF rate and ordering rather more than it needs.

A dozen men on Grimhaldr's Redgate payroll stand Falkbeard's gate, under an arrangement made between two houses that now have no living name between them. The wages come out of a chest at Grimhaldr that nobody has audited since 799 AF, and the men are still there.

Karagunn's smithy row and both watch-tower hearths are lined with Grimhaldr firebrick, and the whole northern order comes off one kiln bank. Karagunn takes about a third of that output and has begun asking for two years' supply in advance.

With no living names at Grimhaldr, Karagunn has entered a claim on the kiln road and the sulphur tarn, arguing that the gate courses are Karagunn masonry and the masons' bill is outstanding. Two other holds have entered claims on the same courses.

Grimhaldr's firebrick contracts to the Anvil Stair holds lapsed with the last living name, and Vurrgast has taken four of the five on a filing that recites Grimhaldr as unable to perform. The fifth is held by the hold that owes Grimhaldr the most money, and Vurrgast has left that one alone.

The loan house at Yatagaru carries 40,000 silver of Grimhaldr firebrick paper, secured on kiln output that has not been weighed since the last name went out of the house. Yatagaru's factors have twice asked the Forge who may sign a release for a hold no longer covered by Clause I, and have twice been told to apply to the clan.

Vaskaryn has bought nine quarter-shares in the Redgate toll out of the estates of Grimhaldr men who left no heirs, paying the Falkvald assembly's clearance fee on each. Four Anvil Stair holds hold that a toll share on a Forge-bound road cannot pass to a house with no gate, and the Forge has taken the point on notice twice without ruling.

Coal for Grimhaldr's kilns comes off Thurmgrim, nine hundred tons a year down the shoulder road, on a schedule cut in metal by two houses that were both warm when it was struck. Neither has a name to revise it, so the tonnage arrives on the old figure and the clerks at both ends keep filing.

Nothing grows on volcanic waste, so Grimhaldr's kilns are fed on Wolds barley and salt mutton carted up the Redgate road, sixty quarters a quarter-year. Belcarrow has raised the price twice since the house went cold and has been paid both times without a word.