PERSONAE · THE VALE

Garen Toll-Ward

aka the Windcut factor

The High Moot's rotating factor at the Windcut House in Highbridge: keeps the fjord-crossing tolls current, bonds guides for the Wind-Cut Pass, and decides which outlanders earn a letter of introduction to Windcut Hold.

Garen drew the Windcut posting the way every factor does, by the holds' turn-count, and has spent three winters in Highbridge's soft cold learning exactly how easy it is for a lowland contractor to shortchange a hired Korl back and how hard it is to prove after the fact. He keeps the toll-board current and the guide-bond ledger honest because those are the job, but the job he actually cares about is the one nobody wrote down: making sure a Korl who sells strength to a lowland captain gets what was promised, in coin and in word, or the factor's post hears about it. He does not raise his voice. He writes the contractor's name in the ledger instead, and the ledger travels back up the fjord with him when his turn ends.

KIND

mortal

RACE

The Korl

CURRENT LOCATION

Highbridge

QUARTER

Charterhouse Row

Connected

The High MootFACTION · Garen holds the High Moot's rotating Highbridge post…The Windcut HousePLACE · Garen keeps the Windcut House's toll-board and guide…Brunda Pass-KeeperCHARACTER · Garen's Highbridge ledger of Korl disputes reports u…

Type Fields

kindmortal

raceconcept.race-korl

current_locationplace.highbridge

quarterplace.hb-charterhouse-row

seatplace.hb-the-windcut-house

homeplace.the-rimeward

affiliationsfaction.the-high-moot

roleRotating Korl factor at the Windcut House: tolls, guide-bonds, letters of introduction

disposition40

hostileno

wantTo send only honest work back up the fjord. No contractor's name goes uncounted in his ledger.

flawHe will not raise a grievance himself; he waits for someone he trusts to carry it, which means real wrongs sometimes sit in the ledger a long season before anyone acts on them.

voice_notesBlunt, terse, Korl cadence: short sentences, long pauses. Talks in tolls and counted debts, not threats. Warms, by a Korl degree, to anyone who brings him a wrong already proven rather than merely alleged.

All Relationships (3)

member_of

→The High Moot — Garen holds the High Moot's rotating Highbridge posting at the Windcut House.

located_in

→The Windcut House — Garen keeps the Windcut House's toll-board and guide-bond ledger.

ally_of

→Brunda Pass-Keeper — Garen's Highbridge ledger of Korl disputes reports up to Brunda Pass-Keeper's word at the Moot.

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