Vaddrek

The four agency yards behind the transfer sheds are fed on Ironfurrow rye, 900 hundredweight a year down the oxen road, and Quellborne pays in cartage licences for the Emberrun barges instead of coin. Vaddrek would rather have the coin and takes the licences because the alternative is selling into Gundvarr's market.

Ironfurrow's granges send four hundred quarters of oats and barley up the Ferravant road each autumn, which is most of what the Sixth Gate eats that its mushroom cellars do not grow. Part of the price is that Emberkeel's clerks leave the Ironfurrow weighing yard out of what they tell Ferrovane's assessors.

Ironfurrow's iron furnace makes the well-gear, chain and wagon tyres for Meketri and takes cattle in payment at its own valuation. Meketri has asked twice for the account in Sekhemrite measure and been sent it in hundredweight both times.

Plough irons, mill gear and coulters go from the Ironfurrow iron furnace to the Hundred's tenants, about nine hundred crowns a year, billed to a receivership account eleven years in arrears. Vaddrek keeps delivering because the tenants are the only Corvantine customers who will take dwarf ironwork without a Ferrovane test.

Nine hundred quarters a year go from the Ironfurrow granges through the gated road into Meldrath, which is what the lecture halls and the drill field eat. Sorrenmark holds rye up against Meldrath's ditch and will not sell across the road fork, so the grain comes half a day downhill from a dwarf concession instead.

Ferrovane's court hall, its gaol and its readers are victualled off the Ironfurrow granges under a standing contract renewed with the concession. Ferrovane pays the survey rate and Vaddrek delivers on the Kazdrunn hundredweight, and the difference is written off each year as cartage.

The Ironfurrow Concession is confirmed at Ferrovane every ninth year for three hundred crowns and a survey of the granges. Vaddrek's return enters the stair as one gate and the surveyors enter it as six holdings, and both figures have gone into the register every ninth year since 743 AF without either side asking the court to choose.

Oats and winter rye off the Ironfurrow granges come down the oxen road and along the Solmarch to Ythelas, and Vaddrek takes half the price in the schooling of its gnome clerks. Every load is weighed twice, on the hold's hundredweight and on the survey's, and both figures go in the book because neither house will use the other's.

Sorrenmark's camp patrols the oxen road down from Ironfurrow and Vaddrek pays two hundred quarters of oats a season for it. A Kazdrunn hold buying Corvantine soldiers is remarked on at both ends of the road, and both houses would rather be remarked on than lose the iron furnace to the drifts off the badlands.

A Sturmhalt daughter went to Vaddrek in 801 with 200 barrels of oil and the recitation that goes with them, and the settlement exists twice, sworn aloud at the Hrimgard assembly and cut in lead at the Ironfurrow gate. The texts differ on what becomes of the oil if the marriage fails, and Vaddrek's clerks hold that the metal governs.