House Vandahl

leads

• ←Lord-Holder Dravas Vandahl — Dravas Vandahl holds the house, barely.

located_in

• →Vandahl Keep — The house seats at the keep.
• →Highbridge — House Vandahl keeps a formal embassy at Highbridge alongside its ownership of the bridge toll — the capital's plural civic law requires every major power to hold its seat as a guest, not a ruler.
• ←The Last Waystone — The Last Waystone is the farthest Vandahl marker — their administrative presence ends at this stone.

owns

• →Valenfeld — Vandahl claims the town and its silver rights.
• →Highbridge — House Vandahl keeps the chain and takes the toll at Highbridge.
• →Castle Sered — The ancestral castle the house can no longer afford to keep open.
• →Karth Bridge — House Vandahl's last garrisoned post on the northern road.
• →Caer Vallen — House Vandahl claims the shattered seat by blood, though none will sleep in it.
• →The Sered Catacombs — House Vandahl owns the crypts where it ranks its ancestral dead — though it can no longer afford to tend the lower halls.
• →The Weeping Adit — The Weeping Adit is House Vandahl's lowest working silver gallery.
• →The Vale — House Vandahl holds nominal silver rights over Vallenfeld and the Vale basin, though its power has pulled back toward Castle Sered and Vandahl Keep.
• →The Sered Spur — House Vandahl holds the Sered Spur as its ancestral high country.
• →Castle Sered — House Vandahl's old seat is Castle Sered in the Sered Spur, even as its working power has shifted to the Vale at Highbridge and Vandahl Keep — a divided house holding land across two regions, its eastern castle a half-emptied ancestral hall.
• →The Sered Spur — House Vandahl controls the Sered Spur by ancestral claim, garrison, and silver rights — though the control is thinning as the silver runs out.

rival_of

• →The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — House and tribe contest the hills.
• →The Ashen Temple — An uneasy peace over who gets the relic.
• ←Ash-Father Kavesh — He would drive the diggers from the hills.
• →The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — Past Karth Bridge the road remembers the tribes, not the banners.
• ←Draneth the Thin — He dropped the banner in shame; the house considers him a deserter.
• ←The Greycloaks — The Greycloaks bleed House Vandahl's silver shipments on the drover-roads; the House's thin watch can never quite saddle in time.
• →House Ashwake — The four Great Houses court the same standing on the Vale's political stage — no two of them can both be seen to rise.
• →House Deepvein — The four Great Houses court the same standing on the Vale's political stage — no two of them can both be seen to rise.
• →House Farroad — The four Great Houses court the same standing on the Vale's political stage — no two of them can both be seen to rise.
• ←The Ashen Moot — House Vandahl resents that even a Lord-Holder must bring a forge-right or inheritance dispute before the Moot's elders; the Moot guards its right to judge the old blood apart from the keep.
• ←Spear-Second Yera — Yera has already turned Vandahl prospectors back at spearpoint; she holds the water-rights dispute as a blade not yet swung.
• ←The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The Ash Famine made the Asheni-Vandahl rivalry personal; the silver-diggers at the Weeping Tooth spring are the current edge of that grudge.

enemy_of

• →The Silt Hands — Open war over the coast trade.
• →Sresh-Dar — The city's wall is built to keep House Vandahl out.
• →Rime Stalker — Vandahl's Karth garrison pays for pelts it seldom collects.
• →Silver Rat — Vandahl's men cull the shafts in arrears and without enthusiasm.
• ←The Rime-Skinners — Their winter raids on the Karth road are half the reason Vandahl keeps a watch on the ford at all.

member_of

• ←Veller Soran — A guard under the banner.
• ←Hrolf — Vandahl coin bought his sword.
• ←Marn the Breaker — He breaks guards for the house.
• ←Indryn Vandahl — Indryn manages the accounts and the men, and carries the house while his brother carries the title.
• ←Pelane Voth — A householder by widowhood, owed nothing except courtesy and a peg for his shirt.
• →The Hollow Writ — House Vandahl is the Writ's local noble arm — the banner that still flies, barely.
• ←The Lower Wardens — House-born servants, never family — sworn to a duty the house pays for in silence and won't admit exists.
• ←Sergeant Tholer — Line sergeant of the House's Highbridge chain-house.
• ←Durgal Quarn — Durgal is House Vandahl's mine foreman.
• ←Coll Harrow — A House Vandahl mine-levy sergeant, pressed and never released.
• ←Dural — The Undertow's last warden, until he took the bar off the gate and quit.
• ←Sergeant Tholer — A House Vandahl sergeant keeping the thin law in Valenfeld's market.
• ←Doran Penn — Hewngate's toll-clerk for the House, eleven years, before the keep was taken.
• ←Sethroll Vandahl — Sethroll is a lesser cousin of House Vandahl, trained for a ceremonial post the House cannot fund.
• ←Outrider Corvel — Corvel is a Vandahl outrider, unpaid and stranded at the Last Waystone.
• ←Sergeant Veld of the Cold Ford — Veld is House Vandahl's last commissioned sergeant in the Northern Reach — loyal, unpaid, and forgotten.
• ←Orvan Seld — Orvan Seld is a House Vandahl hireling — loyal to his contract and his pay, both of which are running thin.
• ←The Spanstone — The Spanstone toll-post is House Vandahl's northernmost maintained presence — a garrison of four and a leaning booth.
• ←The Lower Wardens — The Lower Wardens are a cell sworn to House Vandahl — house-born, never family, paid in silence.
• ←Hollowfold — Hollowfold pays tithe-silver to House Vandahl and is the only living community on the Spur still doing so.

references

• ←Vandahl Seal Ring — The ring carries the house mark and opens Vandahl doors.
• ←Voth's Mail Shirt — Standard Vandahl oathblade mail; the house issued it to the man who wore it.
• ←The Ash Famine — The house emptied its surplus and never refilled it.
• ←The Silver Collapse — The collapse halved the house's income and began its visible decline.
• ←The Vandahl Succession Charter — The charter governs Vandahl succession and has not been invoked in living memory.
• ←Gravecount, the Heir's Blade — The blade of a Vandahl heir; the house would pay well for its return and admit nothing.
• ←quest.the-uncounted-dead (unresolved) — The house shut three-quarters of its crypt and will not say why; resting or robbing the heir touches them.
• →The Asheni — House Vandahl is an Asheni great House, its grudges and ancestor-crypts as old as its grey blood.
• ←quest.the-false-seals (unresolved) — The House's face is on the false wax; Tholer presses the trace on its behalf.
• ←quest.the-drowned-courier (unresolved) — "The Drowned Courier" involves house vandahl.
• ←quest.vf-the-weeping-adit (unresolved) — The flooding gallery is a secret Durgal hasn't told Lord Vandahl yet.
• ←Sela — Filed into the gaol without trial for being inconvenient to someone inconvenient to the House.
• ←Hewngate Keep — Hewngate was House Vandahl's toll-keep; coin-short Vandahl hired the Lances to man it, and lost it.
• ←Veld's Letter — The letter is addressed to House Vandahl's post commander; delivering it resolves the carry-word branch of the quest.
• ←The Karth Crossing — House Vandahl's claim on the North depends on the crossing — without the ford, the Reach is unreachable and the claim is a title without ground.
• ←quest.the-unrelieved-post (unresolved) — The carry-word branch of the Unrelieved Post requires the player to bring Veld's letter to House Vandahl — directly engaging the ruling house.
• ←quest.the-watchers-toll (unresolved) — The garrison's fate is House Vandahl's northern presence — the quest's outcome affects how much the road north forgets their banners.
• ←The Vandahl Ranked Burial — The ranked burial custom is the house's own law — it defines how power is understood and performed by House Vandahl even in death.
• ←The Last Banner Stone — The Last Banner Stone marks the founding gesture of House Vandahl's first lord on the Spur — the socket where his banner stood still rusts there.
• ←The Crookbridge — The Crookbridge is the chokepoint of House Vandahl's supply line — cut the bridge and you starve the garrison in three weeks.
• ←Hollowfold Tallow Candle — The tallow candles represent Hollowfold's contribution to the tithe economy — a mundane symbol of what the Spur's failure costs the people who stay.

guards

• →The Vale Rim — House Vandahl holds the three passes of the rim — the only doors to their Vale — and little of the wall between them.
• ←The Undertow — The Undertow drains beneath House Vandahl's bluff gaol — the House garrisons the cells above but not the drowned drains below.

worships

• →Vallen, the Wright — House Vandahl still swears its oaths by the Wright, tending his shrines though he cannot hear them.
• →Vallen, the Wright — House Vandahl keeps the lapsed forms of the Forge-Singer's oath — a frontier house still swearing by a god the rest of the world has quietly stopped expecting to answer.

created_by

• ←Vandahl Timberwork — Vandahl timberwork is House Vandahl's building tradition — blackened frame, whitewash, one silvered crest-beam; the architecture of a house spending its last wealth on appearances.
• ←Vandahl Ashlar — Vandahl ashlar is House Vandahl's dressed-stone CIVIC tradition — the coursed grey seat it raises over its timber streets, inherited from Imperium frame-and-course building. The house builds its people in timber and its authority in stone.
• ←The Pit-Levy Wage Ledger — A House paymaster's account book for the pit-levy.
• ←The Never-Rescinded Muster Order — The House's order raising the pit-levy.

caused_by

• ←The Drownling — It is made and fed by what the House flushes down its own memory hole — the gaol's forgotten dead.

disputes

• ←The Highbridge Trade-Moot — The Moot governs in fact while House Vandahl preserves a nominal claim to the city.

ally_of

• ←Corvin Thresh, the Beaconward — The customs-cutter that watches the narrows is House Vandahl's enforcement; Thresh also sells his fire-times to the customs office, which is technically Vandahl's law.