The Silt Hands

enemy_of

• ←House Vandahl — Open war over the coast trade.
• →Mere Gnasher — The Hands' barge-polers lose a runner to the gnasher most seasons.
• →Tide Gripper — The Hands wall their racks against it and bury their lost.
• →Brine Wight — The Hands run the narrows dark to keep the wights from following their lanterns.
• →Carrion Beetle — The Hands' cellar-runners keep fires against the beetles and still lose sleepers.

rival_of

• ←The Ashen Temple — The Temple would sanctify what the Hands would sell.
• →The Weeping Vault — The Hands tried powder on the seal and the crag kept them out.
• ←The Mourners of the Hush — The Mourners bury the dead; the Silt Hands sell what's buried with them.
• ←The Deepcut Pans — They skim past the Hands' claimed cut on every grain.
• ←The Keepers of the Deep — 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.
• ←The Wheelmoot — A road kept open by caravan-law is a road the Silt Hands cannot quietly own; the moot fights to keep routes free of toll and ambush, the smugglers to make them their private channels.

located_in

• →Tidewrack Cove — The Hands land their cargo at Tidewrack.
• ←Sresh-Dar — Sresh-Dar is the Silt Hands' free-port — they run it as a fence runs a shop.
• ←Siltmouth — Siltmouth is quietly in the Silt Hands' pocket — fishing village that feeds the river-to-mere smuggling chain.
• ←The Mangrove Maw — The Silt Hands use the Maw as a deniable deep cache the law can't reach.

owns

• →The Sunbleached Hold — They run cargo through the hold's cellars.
• →Highbridge — A quiet Silt Hands arrangement runs cargo under the third arch.
• →Sresh-Dar — The Hands run Sresh-Dar as their free-port and seat.
• →Siltmouth — Siltmouth feeds the Hands' river-to-mere barge runs.
• →The Drowned Shrine — The Hands keep dry cellars under the shrine despite the pilgrims above.
• →Gull's Watch — The Hands keep the beacon as a smugglers' signal over the narrows.
• →The Drinking Sink — The Silt Hands have sent divers into the Drinking Sink and believe the underground connection to the Vault is exploitable.
• →The Weeping Cleave — The Silt Hands use the Weeping Cleave's first chamber as a smuggling relay below Vandahl's notice.

guards

• →The Sunbleached Hold — Runners keep the cellar route open.
• →The Sunken Cut — The Silt Hands keep a dry cache past the flooded adit and discourage curiosity about it.
• ←The Last Good Well — The Silt Hands and the Reshi both guard knowledge of the last good well — whoever controls that knowledge controls the crossing.

member_of

• ←Sresha of the Silt Hands — The Tideboss of the Hands.
• ←Keth Saltrunner — Sresha's informant and fixer inside the town.
• ←Draneth the Thin — A disgraced Vandahl retainer now running cargo for the Hands.
• →The Gaunt Ledger — The Silt Hands are just the Ledger's local crew, whatever they call themselves.
• ←Orin Dah — One foot in the under-bridge smugglers when the Ledger isn't watching.
• ←Doreth Sumb — Doreth sells passage and silence for the Silt Hands; every load that crosses the Stair Road on his skiff passes unseen.
• ←Veya the Tinner — Veya the Tinner is a Silt Hands fence operating as a turnkey in Vandahl Keep's debtors' cells.
• ←The Drover's Cache-Delve — The Silt Hands use the cache-delve's intact half as a forward staging cache.
• ←The Gull-Throat Caves — The Silt Hands use the dry upper galleries as a contraband cache between runs.
• ←Corvin Thresh, the Beaconward — Thresh is on the Silt Hands' payroll and signals run-nights through the beacon's fire state.
• ←The Wreck-Reef — The Silt Hands control the Wreck-Reef's salvage and direct unwanted hulls there through the beacon signal.
• ←The Pale Strand — The Silt Hands comb the Pale Strand after every storm for Pacific-drift salvage no manifest accounts for.

ally_of

• →Silt Crab — The Hands use their shells as bowls and their claws as pry-tools. The crabs are incidental about it.
• →The Gaunt Ledger — The Silt Hands are the Gaunt Ledger's coastal cell — Sresha's coast feeds Calder's books.
• ←The Tide-Pickers — The Tide-Pickers fence their salvage through Sresha's people — an informal but financially entangled alliance.
• ←Lord-Holder Dravas Vandahl — Lord Vandahl has secretly promised the Silt Hands silver to find the relic first — an alliance of desperation that Veya the Tinner's presence on the Spur is part of.
• ←Veshti Goldeye — Veshti owes and is owed by the Silt Hands — mutual cargo arrangements on the night crossing.

references

• ←Vandahl Seal Ring — The Hands are suspected of minting fakes; the forgeries let them move through Vandahl checkpoints.
• ←Silt Coin — Silt coin is the Hands' shadow currency, minted at the Cove.
• →Fenlight — The Hands read a line of fenlights as a deep, safe channel.
• ←Saltkiss, the Fence's Knife — A Silt Hands fence's knife — they'll know their own blade by sight.
• →The Unfailing Font — The Hands would sell it for a season's cargo if they knew the cellar was not the bottom.
• →The Hessk — The Silt Hands crew the salvage hulls with Hessk who walk the silt the dry-landers drown in.
• ←quest.what-the-salt-kept (unresolved) — It was a Silt Hands caravan; the give-to-Keth branch buys standing with them.
• ←The Drover's Ledger-Stone — It remembers for whom the caravan's real cargo was bound — the names the Hands would rather stayed salted.
• →The Emberthrone — The Silt Hands give the burning mountain a wide berth; no cargo run crosses the Emberwaste, and they read its plume for the weather.
• ←quest.the-false-seals (unresolved) — The Hands cut the seal and would sooner buy it back than see it traced.
• →Old Work — The Silt Hands dive the flooded vaults for the same bronze scrap and intact workings every salvager wants.
• →Verdigris Lung — Sealed, damp, unaired flooded vaults are exactly where Verdigris Lung takes hold — the Silt Hands' own occupational risk.
• →Bog Grub — The Silt Hands render bog-grub resin into the wax that seals smuggled crates — a quiet staple of the coast trade.
• →Siltmouth — The Silt Hands hold Sresh-Dar, Siltmouth and Tidewrack Cove — one drowned-coast guild whose reach is the whole Mirrenmere shore, and whose silt-craft and toll-knowledge any inland caravan must buy to cross the wetland at all.
• ←The Standing Mast — The Silt Hands carved a waymark into the Standing Mast — it is their navigation reference for the mid-mere crossing.
• ←The Picked Wrecks — The Pickers fence their haul through Sresha's people — the Wrecks are Silt Hands revenue dressed as scavenging.
• ←The Maw Cache — The Maw Cache is Silt Hands property — cargo they stashed and abandoned when the runner stopped coming.
• ←quest.which-pan-is-brine (unresolved) — A rogue Silt Hands man is one possible source of the fouling.
• ←quest.the-dark-beacon (unresolved) — The Dark Beacon quest's core conflict is Silt Hands smuggling vs House Vandahl's customs authority.

worships

• →The Lady of the Long Water — The Silt Hands work the flooded vaults under her watch and ask her leave before they take anything she has already claimed.