THE POWERS · THE RIMEWARD

The High Moot

The confederation of Korl high-pass holds that keeps the crossings and brokers the strength of the Korl as a people — not as hired muscle for House Vandahl or the Marrow Lances. The holds gather at the Wind-Cut Pass and decide together which lowland wars are worth their backs.

Before the Imperium raised its Rampart to wall the Korl out, the high holds already kept the passes; the empire is gone from these mountains and the holds are still here. The Moot is no crown and no warband — it is the elders of the scattered holds sitting together when the snows close the line, settling tolls, feuds, and grazing, and answering as one people when a lowland captain comes up the trail wanting Korl strength. The holds gather now at Windcut Hold, their true seat across the water on the Rimeward, the far cold country the Korl came down from; the old toll-hold beside the Wind-Cut Pass on the mainland Rampart is a garrison ruin, kept only in the crossing's name. They will sell a hold's backs to an honest war at an honest price, and they will refuse a season of soft coin and offended lords without losing a moment's sleep. They hold the high country as their own, and they mean to be holding it when the next paper empire passes like weather.

KIND

confederation

HEADQUARTERS

Windcut Hold

LEADER

Brunda Pass-Keeper

JOINABLE

Connected

The Rampart WarsEVENT · The Korl confederation — the High Moot — was formed …The RimewardPLACE · The High Moot's holds gather on the Rimeward at Wind…Rimeholt LandingPLACE · The Landing is the High Moot's sea-gate, where the M…The Windcut HousePLACE · The High Moot charters and staffs the Windcut House …The Vallen RoadsPLACE · The High Moot keeps a factor and tally-shed at the V…Windcut HoldPLACE · The High Moot's true seat and moot-hall, the living …

Type Fields

kindconfederation

headquartersplace.windcut-hold

leadercharacter.brunda-pass-keeper

joinableno

goalsKeep the high passes and the crossings under Korl hands, Broker the strength of the Korl as one people, never as cheap hired muscle, Weigh each lowland war and sell Korl backs only to an honest cause at an honest price, Settle tolls, feuds, and grazing among the holds without a crown

valuesthe given word over the crown promise, the people before the price, the mountain and the old strength, an honest cold over a soft lie

All Relationships (16)

origin_of

←The Rampart Wars — The Korl confederation — the High Moot — was formed after the Rampart Wars as the institutional answer to 'never be taken separately again.'

located_in

→The Rimeward — The High Moot's holds gather on the Rimeward at Windcut Hold, its true seat, drawn back over the water from the old Rampart crossing.
→The Wind-Cut Pass — The holds gather at the Wind-Cut Pass — the one foot-crossing of the Rampart — when the snows close the line; the topmost cairn-stone is where the Moot is called and the tolls are set.

references

→Rimeholt Landing — The Landing is the High Moot's sea-gate, where the Moot bargains its trade up the fjord to Windcut Hold.
→The Vallen Roads — The High Moot keeps a factor and tally-shed at the Vallen Roads: everything bound over the water to the Rimeward is counted here.
←The Wall-Holder's Maul — Only the gathered Moot can sanction the maul's release under the Korl grave-right.
←quest.an-honest-count (unresolved) — The dispute tests the Moot's core value: an honest count for hired Korl strength.
→The Korl — The Moot is the civil body of the Korl as a people — the holds answering together rather than as scattered backs for hire — and embodies the old-blood worldview that the mountain endures while lowland crowns pass like weather.
→The Marrow Lances — When the Marrow Lances need Korl backs for a contract they must come up the trail and treat with the Moot as a people, not buy a giant or two over a fire — Brunda names the price, the cause, and the holds that will answer, or sends the captain back down empty-handed.

owns

→The Windcut House — The High Moot charters and staffs the Windcut House as its Highbridge embassy under the Moot's Charter.
→Windcut Hold — The High Moot's true seat and moot-hall, the living hold the Windcut House in Highbridge answers to.
→Windcut Hold — The High Moot keeps its true seat at Windcut Hold, gathered in the fjord-pass above the landing.

member_of

←Garen Toll-Ward — Garen holds the High Moot's rotating Highbridge posting at the Windcut House.
←Brunda Pass-Keeper — Brunda is an elder of the high holds and sits the Moot as its speaker, not above it — first among the holds' own.

leads

←Brunda Pass-Keeper — 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.

rival_of

→The Korl War-Band — The Moot and the Korl War-Band are the two answers to the same cold: the Moot weighs and brokers Korl strength as a people, the War-Band sells it as plunder and makes every lowlander reckon any Korl a raider. The holds name the Reckoner's crew oath-breakers who cheapen the people's word.

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