THE POWERS · THE NORTHERN RAMPART

The Stonewright Moot

aka the Moot, the Deep Galleries, the Wrightmoot

The masons-and-smiths hall of the deep galleries under the Northern Rampart — the craft-institution above the Stoneborn clans that holds the bridges, forges and quarry-rights, sets clan-law and the price of stone and iron, and keeps the great works standing through the collapse.

Where the Stoneborn clans would each cut and forge and feud alone, the Stonewright Moot is the table they all sit at — a chartered company of master masons and smiths convening in the deep galleries the Karth swallowed. It does not own the quarries; it adjudicates them. The Moot registers a clan's quarry-right, fixes the price of dressed stone and forged iron so no clan starves the others, weighs the old grudges into ledgered debts that can actually be paid, and — above all — keeps the great works standing while the empire that left them is four hundred years gone: it maintains Karth Bridge's chain-works and bridge-stones, the forge-galleries, and the cut roads the north still moves on. A Wright's word on a stone's price or a clan's claim is law from the foothills to the pass; break a Moot ruling and no gallery will sell you so much as a nail.

KIND

guild

PLAYSTYLE

craft

HEADQUARTERS

Karth Bridge

LEADER

Thurig Wrightmaster

Connected

HighbridgePLACE · The Stonewright Moot keeps a seat/branch at Highbrid…Greywater HollowPLACE · The Stonewright Moot keeps a seat/branch at Greywate…HollowfoldPLACE · The Stonewright Moot keeps a seat/branch at Hollowfo…Dustmere HollowPLACE · The Stonewright Moot keeps a seat/branch at Dustmere…Hesk DurrowCHARACTER · Hesk is the Stonewright Moot's Highbridge factor.The Scale and ScrapPLACE · The Scale and Scrap is where the Stonewright Moot's …

Type Fields

kindguild

playstylecraft

skillsSmithing

headquartersplace.karth-bridge

leadercharacter.thurig-wrightmaster

joinableno

ranksPrentice, Stonewright, Master Wright, Wrightmaster

goalsKeep the great works standing through the collapse — Karth Bridge's chain-works and bridge-stones, the forge-galleries, and the cut north roads, Register and adjudicate every clan's quarry-right so the diggings don't dissolve into feud, Fix a fair price for dressed stone and forged iron so no clan can starve another out, Ledger the old clan grudges into debts that can be paid, and see them paid slow but true

valuesbuild true, owe true, forgive slow, the clan and the craft over any spell or empire, a Wright's word is mortar — it holds or everything comes down

relic_stanceOld Imperium cut-stone and chain-work is salvage and proof the ancients built true — the Moot prices it, hauls it, and reuses it in the great works. Whatever it supposedly means is noise; whether it still holds weight is the only question a Wright asks.

All Relationships (11)

located_in

→Highbridge — The Stonewright Moot keeps a seat/branch at Highbridge.
→Greywater Hollow — The Stonewright Moot keeps a seat/branch at Greywater Hollow.
→Hollowfold — The Stonewright Moot keeps a seat/branch at Hollowfold.
→Dustmere Hollow — The Stonewright Moot keeps a seat/branch at Dustmere Hollow.
→Karth Bridge — The Moot convenes in the deep galleries under the Rampart and keeps its hall at the great work it maintains — the chain-works and bridge-stones of Karth Bridge, the node the north road crosses on.

member_of

←Hesk Durrow — Hesk is the Stonewright Moot's Highbridge factor.
←Thurig Wrightmaster — Thurig rose through the galleries from prentice to Master Wright before the clans raised him Wrightmaster — he is the Moot's own, not an outsider set over it.

references

←The Scale and Scrap — The Scale and Scrap is where the Stonewright Moot's Old Work trade gets weighed.
→The Stoneborn — The Moot is the Stoneborn craft-institution above the clans — its charter is the race's own creed made law: build true, owe true, forgive slow.

leads

←Thurig Wrightmaster — Thurig is the elected Wrightmaster of the Stonewright Moot — his word fixes stone-prices, registers quarry-claims, and ledgers clan-debts from the foothills to the pass.

rival_of

→The Coldhand Pans — The Coldhand Pans hold their column-field quarry by squatter's grit and won't bring their claim or their take before the Moot; the Moot reckons an unregistered, unpriced quarry a hole in the law that drags every other clan's price down.

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