Verrigan

The whole of Marrowe's alum clip, some sixty tons a year, goes out through Verrigan's leased wharf at the northern anchorage at three per cent of landed value. The Amasekan harbours will not rank a Marrowe factor above a coast house, and Verrigan asks nothing about seating order and charges for the omission.

Verrigan bought Falkbeard's grain-cellar bonds at eleven coppers for each silver of face value and has spent six years looking for a name that could execute a release. Verrigan's position is that a cold house's pledges pass to its creditors; two Kazdrunn holds hold that they pass to the clan, and the cellars are still full.

Verrigan carries Ashcrole's retainer account and takes a fifth for standing between the agency and whoever is paying it. The ledger is kept in Corvantine form at a leased wharf two cells away, and no Amaseki court has yet ordered it produced.

Verrigan discounts Sumizuki's toll receipts at a fifth in advance of the season and lands the pine billets for the beacon on the same account. Sumizuki has asked twice for the discount to come down to a sixth and been told the risk sits in the season rather than in the house.

Verrigan endorsed Wraymoor's paper at the free ports and Wraymoor endorsed Verrigan's, and neither endorsement went to Ferrovane's records office. A bill came back last year, the records office will not hear either house on it, and two Corvantine counting houses are now suing each other in a court that sits in four languages.

Half of what Utagitsu eats is landed off Verrigan's leased wharf on account, in rice, salt and oil, and the account has not been square in four years. That is how a Corvantine house of six names came to hold a lien on Amasekan silver.

Utagitsu sends refined silver bars to Verrigan's counting house. The coast accepts Utagitsu's test mark without weighing the bars again. Verrigan lends money against each boat before it sails, on the strength of the mark and nothing else.

Ravenscarp finds Verrigan the working capital for the season at a twelfth, secured on the landing dues, and has renewed it every year since 811. Verrigan is quietly positioned for the day the ring stops mattering, Ravenscarp is not, and the loan is most of what keeps the two civil.

Verrigan's lease runs from Aelvarion on a term reckoned in elven years, and Verrigan's copy is dated twice, once by regnal year and once by survey. Aelvarion's records office accepts neither date as the date of entry, so the renewal has been in hand since the spring and the rent is being paid on account.

Aelvarion brokered the match that brought a cadet of Ferrovane into the Verrigan line, on the argument that a house of six names cannot carry a wharf lease without standing behind it. The brokerage was taken in two years of forgiven rent and Ferrovane's settlement is still unexecuted.

Rice, water and firewood for Verrigan's counting house come down the concession track from Kurohane's stores. Kurohane measures out in koku and Verrigan enters bushels, and the difference is argued at every quarter's audit and then split.