Plate 34 · Section II.1

Karagunn


Stonewend, the Anvil Stair · Warm iron · 14 living names

The border is the business. Forts and patrol roads run out from Stonewend, and the threats that reach them fall to the house's own watch. Karagunn keeps forges of its own.

Ask Karagunn to choose between its people and the draconic order. Its answer follows the people, which leaves a gap in the assumption behind Clause I that every dragon will join the punishment. The Forge has planned around that gap for centuries. Its institutions are divine. They hold both moral extremes and regard the middle as a failure of nerve; the tradition signed last and grudgingly.

The holding


Sleetgate — the hold that collects on another house's die

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hex 15,5 · cell r2c4 · mountain Marked: the smithy row inside Sleetgate's pass mouth

Where the Anvil Stair drops to the tundra coast: watch-towers, a smithy row, one pass mouth

Where the Anvil Stair breaks down into the tundra coast there are two watch-towers, a smithy row on the level ground, and one pass mouth carrying the ridge road up from the Storvald Wolds. Above the last grazing nothing is farmed, so two thousand quarters of barley a year come over the ridge under escort. Firebrick for the hearths comes off the Thrangar kilns to the west, pig iron goes down the coast road to Brimholt, and the Kilngate gate stands two days up the Stair with its stamping floor still working. From the upper tower the Redgate approach is visible in clear weather.

Connections


Karagunn garrisons what other people need to move through and takes the rent in kind.

Allies takes this house’s side 4

Neutral trades, and no more than that 4

Enemies has something open against it 2

The full account — 10 houses, 12 arrangements

Karagunn garrisons what other people need to move through and takes the rent in kind. Belcarrow pays for the ridge road and the Redgate approach in barley and in not asking what the pass toll is on paper, at a price fixed each spring on the previous year's tonnage, which suits a garrison on fixed rations better than it suits a grower. Ground rents at Oathcairn are cut in lead and matched at Sleetgate, so Brannhold's grazing leases are good in a Kazdrunn gate and nowhere on the March. Grimhaldr's kilns supply a third of the firebrick and can produce nobody to answer for the ground they stand on, and two Sleetgate watch-posts have been moved above the sulphur tarn since 802. Three holds have now entered claims on the same Kilngate courses.

  • out 39 Brannhold law

    Ground rents at Brannhold are cut in lead and Karagunn will match the halves at its own gate, so the grazing leases are good in a Kazdrunn gate and nowhere on the March. The Falkvald assembly does not hear a bargain nobody swore aloud, and Brannhold has stopped putting them to it.

  • out 60 Grivane ore

    Six hundred hundredweight of Anvil Stair pig goes down the coast road from Karagunn to Grivane each season, weighed on the Kazdrunn hundredweight and paid on the Falkvald. The difference is argued every spring and settled at whatever the smelter needs that month.

  • out 23 Anvilbrand claim

    Karagunn holds Anvilbrand's gate, works the stamping floor under Anvilbrand's die and collects the test fee at eight coppers per hundredweight. No ruling says which of the Anvil Stair holds inherited the fee, and the collecting goes on.

  • out · in 78 Belcarrow garrison · grain

    Karagunn's watch-towers cover the ridge road and the Redgate approach, and Belcarrow pays in barley and in not asking what the pass toll is on paper. Karagunn wants nothing that reopens the arrangement, and Belcarrow is thought on the March to be costing what the ground would be worth without it.

    Two thousand quarters of barley come off Belcarrow to Karagunn each autumn, carted over the ridge road under Karagunn's escort. The price is fixed in spring on the previous year's tonnage, which a garrison with fixed rations prefers and a grower with a variable crop does not.

  • out · in 13 Grimhaldr claim · ore

    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.

    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.

  • in 44 Gundvarr tribute

    Gundvarr answers to the Seventh Gate and sends a tenth of Quellborne's crop up the Anvil Stair each autumn as gate tribute, 600 hundredweight carried at its own cost past three tolls that stand at full rate. Karagunn takes the tribute, counts it against the granary's gate course, and has declined for nine years to say what the count now stands at.

  • in 08 Brakkenstone marriage

    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.

  • in 24 Maeryvane licence

    Maeryvane musters and quarters a company of four hundred under a commission that names Karagunn as issuer and no principal at all. Maeryvane draws the pay through a Corvantine mint and the men appear in the survey as road labour.

  • in 42 Emberkeel information

    Emberkeel sold Karagunn a gate-course survey of the Anvil Stair approaches in 791 and sold the same survey again inside the year. Karagunn now pays on delivery and keeps both halves of the plate.

  • in 74 Caelithil marriage

    The match between a Karagunn gate-daughter and the senior Drusenmark assembly family was brokered over four seasons by Caelithil, with the settlement written for the elves, spoken at the assembly and cut in lead for the hold. Caelithil took its fee as a right of audience at Karagunn's gate court, which it values above the coin it could have asked.

Carters on the ridge road say the Sleetgate escort bills would buy more than the March supposes, and that barley keeps the figure off paper. Said in the Anvil Stair

The public record


Plate
34 of 81
Seat
Stonewend
Holding
Sleetgate
Region
the Anvil Stair
Position
hex 15,5 in r2c4
Extent
a broad march (5 of 10)
Culture
Kazdrunn
Thick on this ground
Kazdrunn
Iron
Warm
Living names
14
Roster
Established
Ancestry
Dwarf
Kinship
Kinsworn
Major activity
Marchward
Minor activity
Forgewright
Tradition
Divine
Alignment
LE
Stake
Holds
Band
Middling
Weights
3

Arms


A mountain gate flanked by two carved stone sentinels, a smith's tongs barring it like a portcullis, a votive flame above the arch.

The Forge's register entry for Karagunn

Or, party per pale by a line Gules, a tower and a mount Gules; in base a hammer Gules; a bordure of warm iron. (Plate 34; fourteen 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.