Nuirendil

Nuirendil and Serathorne hold reciprocal clearance at the two ends of the Forge watershed: a cargo stamped at the Anvilwater mouth clears the Emberrun customs yard at half rate, and the reverse. Every Kazdrunn hold on the stair between them has petitioned the Forge to void it, on the ground that two houses have agreed a toll over ground held by fourteen others.

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.

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.

Nine hundred marks advanced against three seasons of offerings at Brannhold's cairn-field, secured on the pilgrim landing and the fodder sheds behind it. A poor third season would leave Nuirendil's clerks holding four acres of black sand and a claim on a temple's door money.

Nuirendil's ledger still carries 1,412 marks in bills drawn on Anvilbrand's stamping floor before the crack, and the sum is entered every year against whoever holds the gate. Karagunn's clerks have returned the entry unanswered since 731.

Nuirendil discounted Quorravel pilot bonds for thirty years at four points under the free-port rate. Since the Quorravel plate began to open at the edge, the bonds have been discounted at eleven points above that rate and the paper is taken in smaller parcels.

Every barrel of Tessarel sulphur bound south is transhipped at Nuirendil's wharves, on a hundredweight rate Nuirendil has revised twice in four years. Tessarel keeps the schedule of both revisions and reads it out at the assembly whenever the gulf tolls come up.

Pilgrims for Faenlorn land at Nuirendil's rock wharves and are carried up the coast in its boats, four marks a head including the return. Faenlorn subscribes for the whole season in advance, so a thin year falls on the Reach and not on the ferryman.

Two-row barley off Belcarrow comes down the gulf to Nuirendil, fourteen hundred quarters a season, and Nuirendil settles in remitted wharf fees rather than coin. Belcarrow's factors have asked for coin at four assemblies running and taken the wharf fees each time.

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.

Nuirendil retains Vaethril to press the toll cases it would rather not have heard in its own name, and Vaethril's filings name a chartered company and no principal. Neither house will confirm the retainer to anyone who asks.

Every hull that takes a gulf pilot is named on a list Kaldwyn sells to Nuirendil, and the list reaches the wharves four days ahead of the cargo. Nuirendil pays by the season and has twice tried to establish who else subscribes.

Nuirendil sends its toll clerks north to Prospern for a winter each, because a Falkvald wharf schedule is read aloud and an elven records office cannot plead ignorance of what was said in a room it kept a man in. Nuirendil pays forty marks a head, on time every winter.