The Pyre Wardens

A Hollow Writ garrison detail at Ashfall Town, nominally holding House Vandahl's mineral rights to the waste — in practice, four bored soldiers and a commander who knows this posting is a punishment.

They tax passing Ashwalkers on principle; the Ashwalkers ignore them with long practice. Pyre Warden Seld has made his peace with irrelevance, mostly. He still has the letter he was told to deliver if anyone came back from the Cindervault alive.