Drennhold

Drennhold retains the agency hall at Ashcrole to stand as named principal in the annual filing about the underground passage boundary against the Reach water records office, so the paper leaves a coast address rather than a gate number. Ashcrole has appeared in the matter for eleven years and its fee comes from a name that does not appear on the filing.

Drennhold retains Dunmoral's agency so that the gate-count argument reaches the Reach water records office in a Sekhemrite hand. The retainer is entered at Drennhold as a burial account, and Dunmoral's registrars are not told which of their briefs it pays for.

Drennhold's road forts hold Umbermere's cisterns and the cavern stages under them for a fifth of the lentil crop. Umbermere does not ask what Drennhold's clerks write down about the households that bring it in.

Three thousand sacks of barley and lentils a year go up the cavern road to Drennhold's three road forts, weighed on the Kazdrunn hundredweight and charged against the Reach share. The conversion is disputed in writing every year and paid at the old figure while the dispute runs.

In a short year Umbermere sells surface draw to the road forts at the rate set by the records office plus carriage, and Drennhold's clerks enter the whole payment as carriage. The underground passage records office maintains in writing that the water was Kazdrunn water to begin with.

Drennhold and the Reach water records office have exchanged the same letter about the boundary of the upper underground passages every year since the signing. Vorlaine's office drafts the reply in the first week of the year and reads the incoming letter when it arrives in the third month.

Mutton, cheese and stored grain go up Isperil from the summer grazing above the underground passages, entered in the hold's books as grazing rent received rather than victuals sold. Isperil leaves the entry as it stands.

Isperil signs the elven concurrence on the gate-count brief, the only hand on it that is not Kazdrunn, and lodges it again with a fresh date whenever the Forge takes the question up. Drennhold pays for the signature as grazing rent and calls it grazing rent in every account it keeps.

Drennhold marches its relief columns down the Emberdeep road twice a year and pays the bar nothing, holding that a garrison in transit is not a load. Belgrund has assessed the columns at 260 crowns a year since 814, enters the arrears, and lodges the whole sum as a claim while sending no demand.

Ashgrave has held a general retainer since 809 from a principal it enters as the northern account, and every summons out of the yard since has been against a tenant of the underground passage boundary. Drennhold's clerks stopped asking whose money it is around 815 and now simply answer within the time allowed.

Drennhold sends four clerks a year down to Cuiveril to be taught the file on the underground passage boundary, so both sides of the annual disagreement between the two registries are drafted by men taught in the same room off the same shelf. Cuiveril charges the hold the Reach rate and leaves the coincidence out of the invoice.

Ravenscarp has drafted the Reach's annual reply to the underground passage boundary' boundary claim since 803, sealed by the water records office and paid for out of tomb rents. Drennhold files its own answer before reading the reply, and both houses have put in writing that the practice saves everybody a fortnight.

Lysathiel supplies Drennhold with the names, postings and arrears of every clerk who reads the Reach underground passage records office, on a retainer of 2,000 silver renewed each Midwinter. Lysathiel sells the service to nobody else east of the spine, and the file is kept by Drennhold's cipher office rather than by its marchwardens.

The library at Ythelas's trains Drennhold's cipher clerks in Corvantine records office practice, eight at a time, and Drennhold pays in cut lead plate that Ythelas resells at the Solmarch head. A dwarf hold sending clerks to an elven library was remarked on for about forty years and passed out of comment.

Vaethril's stage register is copied monthly and carried to Drennhold by one of its factors, sixty marks the year. The payment appears in neither house's accounts, and tenants renting a stage from Vaethril are told the register is not read.