PERSONAE · THE NORTHERN RAMPART
Brunda Pass-Keeper
The Korl voice at the high moot — a grey-braided giantess who keeps the Wind-Cut crossing and counts which lowland wars are worth Korl backs. She moves slow, speaks short, and has turned down more coin than most lords will ever see.
Brunda holds the topmost stone of the Wind-Cut Pass and has buried two husbands and a son in the snow below it. The holds send her to speak for them at the moot not because she is the strongest left — she is not — but because she remembers every toll, every broken lowland promise, and every Korl that died fighting another man's war for thin coin. She will sell the strength of a hold to a lowland captain when the price and the cause both stand up; she will sit on her hands a whole season when neither does. House Vandahl's factors call her stubborn. She calls it counting.
KIND
mortal
RACE
The Korl
ROLE
Speaker of the high moot; keeper of the Wind-Cut crossing
VOICE NOTES
Blunt and terse, like all Korl — short sentences, long silences. Proud of the old strength, scornful of crowns and quick coin; talks in tolls paid and words kept, never in songs or omens.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
worships
- →The Korl Ancestor-Keeping — Brunda counts which lowland wars are worth Korl backs the way her own ancestor-keeping taught her — by what the dead would have spent for.
leads
- →The High Moot — Brunda Pass-Keeper speaks for the holds at the High Moot — the chosen voice who counts which lowland wars are worth Korl backs and answers the trail-captains as one people.
member_of
- →The High Moot — Brunda is an elder of the high holds and sits the Moot as its speaker, not above it — first among the holds' own.
located_in
- →The Wind-Cut Pass — Brunda keeps the Wind-Cut crossing herself — the topmost rimed stone is hers to hold, and she has buried two husbands and a son in the snow below it.
references
- →The Korl — Brunda is Korl to the bone — grey-braided, slab-shouldered, frost-skinned, blunt of tongue — and carries the people's old-blood pride: the given word over the crown promise.
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