Castle Sered

parent_of

• →Vandahl Keep — The working garrison at the Keep sits below the ancestral castle.

owns

• ←House Vandahl — The ancestral castle the house can no longer afford to keep open.
• ←House Vandahl — 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.

references

• ←Lord-Holder Dravas Vandahl — The Lord-Holder's blood reaches back to the shut hall of Sered.
• ←The Gaunt Ledger — The Gaunt Ledger holds paper on half of House Vandahl's silver rights — a rival envoy occasionally rides up to Castle Sered to remind the House who actually owns the debt.
• ←The Hollow Writ — The Hollow Writ courts House Vandahl's old eastern seat — a half-empty castle and a divided house make easy leverage. The empire's clerks would have Castle Sered sworn to the crown long before the Vale even knows a province is being assembled around it.

located_in

• ←The Sered Catacombs — The undercrofts are cut directly beneath Castle Sered's crag.
• ←The Marrow Lances — The Marrow Lances keep a hired-arms office at Castle Sered — House Vandahl's garrison pays them to fill out the walls its own thin purse can't crew.
• ←The Far College — The Listening College keeps a small reading-room at Castle Sered, cataloguing what the Vandahl crypts and old Imperium stonework still have to say.
• ←The Finders — The Finders keep a quiet contact at Castle Sered — a debt-ridden House with sealed crypts is exactly the kind of client the Quiet does its best business with.
• ←Sethroll Vandahl — Sethroll returns to Castle Sered for feast days and works the lower hall between journeys.
• →The Sered Spur — Castle Sered crowns the bare crag at the highest point of the Sured Spur.
• ←The Sered Catacombs — The Sered Catacombs are cut beneath Castle Sered's crag, their upper stair accessible from the castle courtyard.
• ←The Shut Reliquary — The Shut Reliquary is sealed inside the castle's closed wing, bricked into the foundation when the first Vandahls raised the hall over it.

foreshadows

• ←Orders for the Forward Watch — The near-House seal and the castle-road watch point out of the Vale toward Castle Sered.

enemy_of

• ←Orc — Orc raiders press the roads below Castle Sered and test its walls.