THE LEDGER · THE RIMEWARD

Windcut Hold

aka the High Seat, the true Windcut

The High Moot's true seat, high in a fjord-pass above Rimeholt Landing on the Rimeward: the hold that took the name Windcut with it when the Moot drew back over the water from the old toll-hold on the mainland Rampart.

Windcut Hold sits where a fjord narrows to a pass wind-cut the same way the old mainland crossing was, which is the whole reason the name came with the Moot when it left the Rampart: the holds wanted to carry one true thing across the water, not build a new one from nothing. Longhalls of dark timber and undressed stone step up the pass on both sides, roofed steep against the snow-load, with the moot-hall itself set at the narrowest throat where every hold's elder can be heard without a horn. Brunda Pass-Keeper speaks first here as she does at every gathering, but the hold answers as one people or not at all. A lowland captain who wants Korl backs sends word up from Rimeholt Landing and waits for the moot-hall's answer, and no single hold-elder can sell what the gathered holds haven't weighed. The dead are kept apart, at the barrow above the upper terrace, and every hold in the fjord watches that ground the way it watches the pass itself.

KIND

settlement

PARENT PLACE

The Rimeward

CLIMATE

fjord-cold, wind-cut pass, deep snow half the year

DANGER TIER

Tier III

Connected

The RimewardPLACE · Windcut Hold is the High Moot's seat on the Rimeward…The High MootFACTION · The High Moot's true seat and moot-hall, the living …The Wind-Cut PassPLACE · Windcut Hold carried the Windcut name across the wat…Rimeholt LandingPLACE · Windcut Hold sits up-fjord from Rimeholt Landing, wh…The Rime BarrowPLACE · The Rime Barrow is the burial ground above Windcut H…

Type Fields

kindsettlement

parent_placeplace.the-rimeward

climatefjord-cold, wind-cut pass, deep snow half the year

danger_tier3

controlling_factionfaction.the-high-moot

points_of_interestthe moot-hall at the pass's narrowest throat, the stepped longhalls of dark timber and undressed stone, the barrow above the upper terrace, kept apart from the living holds

map_x5600

map_z-5300

All Relationships (6)

located_in

→The Rimeward — Windcut Hold is the High Moot's seat on the Rimeward, the continent it belongs to.
←The Rime Barrow — The Rime Barrow is the burial ground above Windcut Hold's upper terrace.

owns

←The High Moot — The High Moot's true seat and moot-hall, the living hold the Windcut House in Highbridge answers to.

references

→The Wind-Cut Pass — Windcut Hold carried the Windcut name across the water from the abandoned mainland toll-hold.
→Rimeholt Landing — Windcut Hold sits up-fjord from Rimeholt Landing, where the burial and trade boats put in.

occurred_at

←quest.the-rime-barrow-watch (unresolved) — The Moot convenes at Windcut Hold to answer for the burial ground's neglected watch.

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