THE POWERS · THE MIRRENMERE
The Keepers of the Deep
The Hessk-founded civic league that governs Sresh-Dar below the ocean and holds a major seat in Vel-Sathra's Underworld Depth Moot, keeping deep roads, salvage rights, and water-trade beyond any crown's ownership.
Where the Silt Hands smuggle and the Divers rob the dead, the Keepers of the Deep simply own the water — by long custom, not by charter. They are the old-blood harbor council of Sresh-Dar: dive-masters, wreck-wardens, and pearl-factors who set the lanes, weigh the take at the public scale, and collect the deep's tithe on everything raised from the drowned valley. Their one law is that the free-port stays free; they will deal with House Vandahl, the Gaunt Ledger, or any dry-land buyer, but the day a crown tries to license the salvage-rights is the day the Keepers close the harbor and let it silt up. Patient and literal, they outlast every panic that washes through the coast — debts are paid in their time, on their tide, in their coin.
KIND
civic
HEADQUARTERS
Sresh-Dar
LEADER
Dresha Deepwarden
JOINABLE
no
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (15)
references
- ←The Longwater — The Keepers of the Deep hold the salvage-rights of the Longwater Trench and set the lanes of the strait.
- ←quest.the-drowned-name-scrap (unresolved) — The stolen tablets are the Keepers' own dead.
ally_of
- ←The Wheelmoot — The Longwater compacts: the Wheelmoot's road-nation and the Keepers of the Deep keep trade moving up the dry road to the Silkstrand and down again, each honouring the other's law where the water meets the road.
- →The Gaunt Ledger — The Keepers deal coldly and exactly with the Gaunt Ledger — the Ledger is the dry-land buyer that pays the public scale's price for what the valley gives up.
owns
- →The Tideward — The Keepers of the Deep staff the Tideward as their Highbridge trade office, kept by long custom, not under the Moot's Charter, which they refused.
- →Sresh-Dar — The Keepers of the Deep hold Sresh-Dar against every crown that has tried to license its salvage-rights.
member_of
- ←Selka Deepwarden — Selka is the Keepers of the Deep's watch in Highbridge, though the Keepers charter nothing on land.
- ←Dresha Deepwarden — Dresha is herself a Keeper of the Deep, risen from dive-master to wreck-warden.
- →The Hessk — The Keepers of the Deep are a Hessk institution — an old-blood salvors-and-divers brotherhood and harbor council of the drowned valley's native water-folk.
rival_of
- ←The Silt Hands — The Hands fence unlicensed Mirrenmere salvage the Keepers of the Deep consider poached, drowned-name tablets included.
- →The Silt Hands — The Keepers govern the free-port openly while the Silt Hands smuggle through it; the council tolerates Sresha's crews as a tide tolerates a leak, and the two contest who truly controls Sresh-Dar's water.
leads
- ←Dresha Deepwarden — Dresha Deepwarden is the eldest wreck-warden at the head of the Keepers of the Deep; the council moves at her unhurried pace.
located_in
- →Sresh-Dar — The Keepers of the Deep govern Sresh-Dar as a free-port — the wharves, the dive-licenses, and the public scale are theirs.
- →Vel-Sathra — The Deep Keepers hold a major guild-and-terrace seat in Vel-Sathra's plural Depth Moot and maintain its floodgates and black-river road.
authored
- ←The Shallows Line — The Deep Keepers' harbor watch is who patrols the lit lanes the rule describes.
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