Drusenberg

Drusenberg took Emberkeel gate-notes at full face value for thirty-one years and now discounts them at eighty-four in the hundred. Drusenberg's ledger gives no reason and its clerks give the same one to everybody who asks, which is that the rate is reviewed quarterly.

Alder props and willow bundles go from Drusenberg to Kazdrun, eleven hundred props a year, which is what keeps the peat pits from closing on the diggers. Drusenberg bills by the bundle and Kazdrun pays by the pit, and the two counts differ every year.

Kazdrun cut a channel from its gate to the Rooken in 807 AF and now floats its blooms past the causeway head, taking about a third of Drusenberg's weir receipts with it. Drusenberg's case at the summer assembly is that the cut is a causeway toll evaded under another name, and the assembly has adjourned it twice for want of a rememberer who can recite the original grant.

Drusenberg holds eight thousand crowns of Meldrath paper, taken in 801 AF against the victualling of Meldrath's drill field. Vaskarni practice requires the debt formally read at the summer assembly in the debtor's name; since the Meldrath plate went cold there is no name to recite, so the rememberer reads out the holding instead and everyone present notes the substitution.

Drusenberg's boats take pilgrims from the causeway head to Ostwyck for two coppers per person. They provide food on the island for four coppers a day; there is no other route to the cairn field. Each spring, Drusenberg lends money against the oath-house offering box. It is the only loan in Drusenberg's book, and the offering box cannot be seized if Ostwyck fails to repay.

Bog oak for the coffin work and alder for the oath-house roof come down the sound from Drusenberg, about thirty rafts a year. Drusenberg will not take Ostwyck's paper at any discount and is paid on the shingle in oil and salt fish.

The year the Rooken flooded, six Falkvald wintering men drowned off the causeway head and Drusenberg's assembly sank them in the marsh under a stone rather than carry them out to the cairn field. Ostwyck has demanded the bodies at every summer sitting since, and Drusenberg's rememberer answers that the reading aloud on those names is closed.

Drusenberg lent 26,000 silver against nine years of tomb rents on the Sunjara canyon rim, and takes repayment in Falkvald oil credits at Brannhold because a Vaskarni assembly will not recite a debt denominated in water shares. Drusenberg reprices the loan every spring on the argument that a house living on burial is worth less if the ring opens, and Dunmoral's registrars answer the letter in writing each time.

Drusenberg cannot serve seizure in a Sekhemrite court, so Wexhollow's chartered company serves it, and is paid in water shares Wexhollow would otherwise buy at auction on the canyon rim. Wexhollow's whole holding is bought water, and the retainer covers about seven months of it.

Valdrenne lighters twelve hundred quarters of wheat a year down the Ferravant and round the sound to Drusenberg, which has no ploughland and no intention of buying through Corvantine market halls. Freight, insurance and the mouth toll come to a fifth of the delivered price, and Vaskaryn gives the mouth toll figure aloud and not on paper.

Thelanor says the willow beds below the causeway head lie inside Thelanor's perimeter and that Drusenberg has cut them for ninety years without leave. Thelanor does not ask for the beds back, only for the cutting to be entered as a licence, which Drusenberg understands perfectly and will not do.

Drusenberg sends six ledger clerks a year to Thelanor at fifteen crowns a head, a Coinvault house on the marsh being unable to get literate men out of the villages. Thelanor teaches them the survey forms as well as the tally, which is why Drusenberg's paper is the only Vaskarni paper Ferrovane's records office will accept without amendment.

Lysathiel bought a third of Drusenberg's Meldrath paper in 812 AF at ninety in the hundred and asked nothing about the name on it. Drusenberg's clerks describe the sale as a rebalancing and Lysathiel's describe it as an accommodation between old counterparties.

Duskenmoor's timber charter was granted twice, once by the assembly at Drusenberg and once by a village upriver that believed itself competent, and Drusenberg's have held the second copy since 741 AF. Neither house can produce a rememberer who heard both grants, and both send a factor to the Forge each year to keep the claim from going stale.