Kaldwyn

Kaldwyn supplies Ferrovane's toll office with the sailing lists of every hull leaving the Storvald Gulf without a stamp from the Anvilwater transfer, at four silver a name. Ferrovane assesses cartage licences off those lists in a court hall three cells inland and where they come from has not come up in open session.

Every hull that takes a gulf pilot is named on a list Kaldwyn sells to Nuirendil, and the list reaches the wharves four days ahead of the cargo. Nuirendil pays by the season and has twice tried to establish who else subscribes.

The Forge complaint over the two drained Drusenmark springs has been carried by Kaldwyn's agency for nine years, and the agency files under its own name, not the principal's. Emberkeel's clerks answer each pleading and note in the margin that three mountain villages could not fund a ninth year of this.

Both houses have lodged competing claims at the Forge to Falkbeard's informant ledgers, each arguing that a Cipherhouse book with no living name behind it falls to whoever holds the room it sits in. Prospern carries two names and cannot put any distance between the house and the act; Kaldwyn's pleadings are filed through an agency and name nobody at all.

Kaldwyn has no wall and no landward road, so twelve of the Watch's men and one boat sit at the oil works from first ice to thaw. The rate was sworn in 761 AF against a fixed quantity of train oil, and Kaldwyn has declined to reopen it at eleven assemblies running.

The two hulls that lift Kaldwyn's oil out before the ice are chartered through Cindralis, the freight booked against the same season's advance and settled at the gulf wharves. Kaldwyn finds the rate fair and objects every year to sealing after Cindralis's harbour clerk.

Kaldwyn's eight working months run on two hundred quarters of Wolds barley and forty of salt mutton, all of it landed by boat because the coast road stops at Sturmhalt. Belcarrow ships it in three lifts along the shore and charges the whole season's freight against the first.