Sumizuki
Politics is the estate. Sumizuki holds little that can be burned and a great deal that can be withdrawn at the wrong moment. Sumizuki also collects tolls.
Sumizuki is Kinsworn. It keeps tengu inheritance law over its own succession and tengu gods over its own oaths, and the Forge treats both as facts about the house rather than as affectations. The tradition is divine. Its orders hold one moral extreme or the other, and both wings read the Accords as a compromise, disagreeing only about what with.
The holding
Shiohama — the beacon bearing on a silted channel
Bare basalt rock in the outer Hoshimura: beacon, toll boat, bonito fishery counted as ground.
Bare basalt at the south-eastern edge of the charts, half a mile of it, with the beacon cage at the high end and the salting stage and the toll boat's mooring cut into the lee. The island stores fish and imports its other provisions. Water arrives by the cask off Ginseto's water channel, rice and pine billets by the boat, and the bonito and tuna fleets work the outer Hoshimura from spring to autumn, which is when the year's whole account is made. Ginseto lies four days' pull west, Sirenthal two days north inside the silt, and east of the rock lies open water outside the harbour court's jurisdiction.
Connections
The toll boat stops hulls in the outer Hoshimura on an opinion drafted at Vaeloren in the third century after the signing, that a fishery is a holding and a holding can be overflown.
Allies takes this house’s side 3
Ashinoha 03 Ashinoha is much the bigger house and speaks for Sumizuki's fishing rights in court and at the Forge. Sumizuki drops its harbour toll on almost everything that passes under Ashinoha's mark.
Ashcrole 09 Sumizuki pays Ashcrole to accept and answer the court summonses it refuses to accept itself. The fee is two hundred barrels of salted fish a year, paid in fish and not in coin.
Marrowe 70 Marrowe argues at the Forge that a fishery counts as land a house can hold, which is the only thing that lets Sumizuki's toll boat stop ships at all. It is hired by the season and states in every filing that it acts for an interest and not for a house.
Neutral trades, and no more than that 4
Talionwe 04 Talionwe wrote the argument that made Sumizuki's fishery count as land it could hold, three hundred years ago. It has refused four times to write the sequel, because the same wording would cost Talionwe its own portage.
Stonewrit 10 Sumizuki rents two rooms and a strongbox in the embassy quarter for 340 silver a season, paid up front because the local banks will not give an island house credit.
Utagitsu 32 Utagitsu sends forty casks of water a week to Sumizuki's beacon rock, which has no fresh water of its own and pays three months ahead, and 400 barrels of salted fish come back each year. Sumizuki wants the treaty kept, and Utagitsu says publicly that it should end.
Verrigan 75 Verrigan buys Sumizuki's toll income at a fifth off before the season starts, and delivers the beacon's firewood on the same account. Sumizuki has twice asked for a better rate.
Enemies has something open against it 1
The full account — 8 houses, 9 arrangements
The toll boat stops hulls in the outer Hoshimura on an opinion drafted at Vaeloren in the third century after the signing, that a fishery is a holding and a holding can be overflown. Marrowe is retained by the season to argue it at the Forge for an interest rather than for a house. Anything under a tengu roost's mark passes remitted, which is most of what passes, and Ashinoha carries the fishery motion at the coast court in exchange. Two hundred barrels of salted bonito a year keep the Shirasu hall answering the summonses that will not be accepted on the rock. Verrigan discounts the season's receipts at a fifth and lands the beacon's pine on the same account, and Sirenthal's pilots go on lodging hull losses against the bearing.
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Sumizuki sends 400 barrels of salted bonito from Sumizuki's fishing grounds each year. Utagitsu pays in refined silver. The toll boat records the payment by weight, while the beacon station records its share as food.
Utagitsu sends forty casks of water a week to the beacon rock. Sumizuki has no other fresh water nearby, so it pays for the water three months in advance. Sumizuki supports the Accords; Utagitsu's public position favours ending them.
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Marrowe argues at the Forge that a bonito fishery is a holding and can therefore be overflown, which is the whole basis on which Sumizuki's toll boat stops hulls in the outer Hoshimura. Marrowe is retained by the season and states in every filing that it appears for an interest and not for a house.
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Sumizuki rents two rooms and a strongbox in Stonewrit's embassy quarter for 340 silver a season, paid in advance because the Kazdrunn will not carry an island house on credit. Stonewrit raised the stage rent a fifth in 804 and every coast house paying it lodged the same protest in the same week.
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Sumizuki retains Ashcrole's hall to receive and answer the summonses it declines to accept on the beacon rock. The retainer runs to two hundred barrels of salted bonito a year, paid in fish and not in coin.
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Ashinoha carries the fishery motion at the coast court and speaks to it at the Forge, where a Major house's voice on Clause II counts for more than a beacon rock's. Sumizuki remits the outer-Hoshimura toll on any hull under a tengu roost's mark, which is most of what passes.
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Sumizuki's beacon still bears on the channel the Pardah silted six years ago, and Aelvarion's pilots have lodged four hull losses against it. Sumizuki's reply is that a beacon is part of a holding and its bearings are the holding's own business.
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Verrigan discounts Sumizuki's toll receipts at a fifth in advance of the season and lands the pine billets for the beacon on the same account. Sumizuki has asked twice for the discount to come down to a sixth and been told the risk sits in the season rather than in the house.
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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.
Pilots in the straits say the toll boat stops fewer hulls than the beacon sees, with the balance settled ashore before a cargo is recorded. Said in the Hoshimura Straits
The public record
- Plate
- 35 of 81
- Seat
- Takanosu
- Holding
- Shiohama
- Region
- the Hoshimura Straits
- Position
- hex 21,21 in r6c6
- Extent
- a small march (3 of 10)
- Culture
- Amaseki
- Thick on this ground
- Amaseki, Mixed
- Iron
- Warm
- Living names
- 8
- Roster
- Small
- Ancestry
- Tengu
- Kinship
- Kinsworn
- Major activity
- Highcourt
- Minor activity
- Tollgate
- Tradition
- Divine
- Alignment
- LE
- Stake
- Holds
- Band
- Minor
- Weights
- 2
Arms
A crescent moon reflected in a shallow dish of black ink, a folded court fan laid across the dish, a hawk's nest on a crag above.
Or, party per pale by a line Gules, a coronet and a feather Gules; in base a portcullis Gules; a bordure of warm iron. (Plate 35; eight 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.