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The Wheelmoot

The Reshi road-nation's caravan-kinship: the moot of trade-clan elders who keep the southern roads, the waystations, and the caravan-law open through the Lean Years. It is the road folk's own civil body — it settles road-debts and feuds between the clans so the wheels keep turning.

When the crown went silent and the highways turned to ambush and toll, the Reshi did not wait for a banner to come fix them. The trade-clans named a moot — elders who meet at each clan's wheel (its caravan) and ride the circuit between Farroad Waystead, the Driftmarket, and Sresh-Dar, where Reshi carriers keep quarters among the Hessk — and gave it one job: keep the road a road. The Wheelmoot does not rule land or raise armies; it keeps the waystations watered and roofed, hires guards against the reavers, and above all judges by caravan-law — the old code that a road-debt is sacred, a feud carried onto the road is everyone's loss, and a clan that closes a route to spite a rival answers to the whole moot. Settle your quarrel at the moot or the road is closed to you both; that is the heaviest sentence the Reshi know. They are not priests and not the Finders' smugglers and not the Wandering Cups' wanderers — they are the people who make sure the goods, and the kin who carry them, still arrive.

KIND

moot

HEADQUARTERS

The Farroad Waystead

LEADER

Dareshi the Wheelwarden

JOINABLE

no

Connected

Type Fields
kindmoot
headquartersplace.farroad-waystead
leadercharacter.dareshi-wheelwarden
joinableno
goalsKeep the southern roads, waystations, and caravan-law open through the Lean Years, Settle road-debts and feuds between the trade-clans before they close a route, Hire and post guard against the reavers who prey on the wheels, Hold the moot's circuit between Farroad Waystead, the Driftmarket, and Sresh-Dar
valuesA road-debt is sacred and a closed road is a dead one, Belonging travels with the caravan, not under a banner, Judge a quarrel by caravan-law, not by who holds the most coin, Trust the kin and the wheel; never wait on a crown
All Relationships (20)

member_of

  • Halvard CraneHalvard heads the trade-moot.
  • Ysolde MarrYsolde sits the trade-moot as Warden of the Span.
  • Bressa FerrywatchBressa holds the wheel-seat the Wheelmoot's elders created for the new Longwater ferry.
  • Dareshi the WheelwardenDareshi sits the Wheelmoot as its Wheelwarden, one elder among the trade-clan moot.

owns

references

  • The SilkstrandThe Wheelmoot's road-nation circuit reaches down to the Silkstrand salt shore, the southern origin of the roads it keeps.
  • The Last WaysteadThe Wheelmoot keeps the Last Waystead on its circuit as a watered stop, and the ferry road down to the Silkstrand passes its old last mile-stone.
  • Longwater RestThe Wheelmoot keeps a wheel at Longwater Rest, the Reshi road-nation's deep landing on the strait.
  • Charterhouse RowThe Wheelmoot keeps a road-door on Charterhouse Row, more waystation than embassy, since Reshi caravans were never strangers to Highbridge.
  • quest.the-post-at-the-span (unresolved)The ledger closes against the Wheelmoot's caravan-law accounting.
  • The ReshiThe Wheelmoot is the Reshi road-nation's own civil body — caravan-kinship made into a moot of trade-clan elders.

ally_of

  • The Keepers of the DeepThe 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 Wandering CupsThe Wheelmoot's waystations water and roof the Wandering Cups' mendicants on the road, and the Cups' walkers carry word and warning between the wheels — both keep the road folk's circuit alive.

rival_of

  • Veshi RoadscarVeshi claims the moot's own caravan-law still owes her dead clan a road-debt, twenty years unpaid.
  • The Silt HandsThe Silt Hands are muscling the new Longwater ferry crossing the Wheelmoot chartered, insisting the lane belongs to whoever can hold it.
  • The Silt HandsA 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.

aligned_with

  • House FarroadHouse Farroad's waystead shares its road-law with the Wheelmoot, the pan-Reshi governing moot.

leads

  • Dareshi the WheelwardenDareshi is the Wheelwarden — the Wheelmoot's first voice, keeper of its road-ledger and judge of caravan-law.

located_in

  • Sresh-DarThe Wheelmoot seats its standing moot in the Reshi free-port of Sresh-Dar, the southern road-terminus, and rides its circuit out from there.

enemy_of

  • The Reshi MaraudersThe Reshi Marauders are the wheels gone reaver; the Wheelmoot posts guard against them and closes its roads to any clan that shelters them.

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