Dunmoral

Brannhold takes the poorer half of the bodies landed at Brannhold into its cairn-field and charges no carriage for them, which Dunmoral's registrars have twice described at the Forge as a fraud upon the dead. Neither filing named a sum, since traffic that pays no carriage is counted nowhere.

Northern bodies bound for the dry burial caves are landed at Nuirendil and go up the north road under Dunmoral's stamp, six marks a body taken at the wharf and the remainder at the rim. Nuirendil keeps a count of its own and will not produce it.

Millet off Dunmoral's terraces goes to Wexhollow at the rim price, and half of it is set against the escort account instead of paid. Dunmoral's steward proposes each autumn that the whole should be, and each autumn Wexhollow declines.

Wexhollow's men take the corpse caravans over the tundra shoulder where the north road leaves the rim, twelve marks a stage and one body in forty carried free. Dunmoral's stamp travels with the caravan; Wexhollow's rolls record the stage and not the load.

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.

Caelithil's chaplains preach that the ring was a settlement with evil and that the plates should never have been struck, and Dunmoral's temple gate has barred Caelithil's dead from the Sunjara underground passages for sixty years on the strength of it. Caelithil's burial carriage now goes round to Cistern Nineteen at nearly twice the rate, and Dunmoral counts the diverted carriage as part of the argument.

Cistern Nineteen carries nine of the perpetual washing shares Dunmoral's underground passages draw on, at a millet rent set in 604 that still stands. The rent is now worth roughly a third of what a share fetches at the records office.

Sarventhal has petitioned the records office eleven times to reopen the 604 rate. Dunmoral answers each petition with the text cut into a tomb wall at Dunmoral, which Sarventhal cannot deny without asking the family that owns the grave to open it.

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.

The temple gate at the Sixth Stage keeps the southern stage of the corpse road and takes two marks a body and a tenth of the offerings, remitted north because the stamp on the carriage is Dunmoral's. Corvane has asked three times to be given a stamp of its own.