Grivane

Nuirendil's lease runs one sailing season at a time and it is Grivane's to renew, which it does at the assembly where its own cargo is the largest item on Nuirendil's toll roll. Nothing beyond the year in hand exists in writing.

Every hundredweight of Grivane sulphur and bar that crosses from the cart road to a hull at Nuirendil pays eleven coppers in wharf fees per hundredweight, a rate posted in 794 and unaltered since. Grivane has had the schedule read out at the assembly four times, and the reading has been the whole of the result.

Grivane sends harness ironwork and two siege carriages a year down the cavern roads to the Sixth Stage, invoiced in Falkvald marks and paid in Reach silver at a conversion Corvane's quartermasters set. Grivane's factor at the sixth stage has standing orders to accept it.

Wexhollow musters Falkvald wage-men for the upland stations and the sulphur road under a chartered company held on Grivane's letters. The muster rolls name the company; the letters stay at Grivane and are lodged nowhere.

Four watch-forts on the sulphur road cover the benches Grivane works, paid at one barrel in twenty and the cut fuel the forts burn. They stand where the pilgrim track and the cart road run together, which suits Brannhold's collectors better than it suits Grivane's carters.

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.

Birch billets and charcoal ship down the gulf from Faenlorn to Grivane, four thousand sacks a season, against a lien on the slag revenue that Faenlorn renews each year. The lien is drawn in an elven form and no Falkvald assembly has been asked to read it.

Grivane bar carries Anvilbrand's die because no gulf merchant will take another mark on a Falkvald wharf. The eight coppers goes into an account opened in 698 and still open.