The Tidemark Accord · Curated example · Read only
Keelmarket
Where a ship can become timber, a home, and a new ship in the same week.
Keelmarket occupies dry docks built by successive generations who each believed they had finally reached permanent ground. Shops are numbered by the hulls above them rather than by street. At noon the cooperatives ring a handbell and lend tools to anyone with an unfinished repair.
The Mooring Guard has fenced off a recovered vessel bearing Marcher quarry marks. Salvagers say it belongs to the workers who found it; the council says it is evidence. The disagreement is still civil because Tovan Reed has arranged a shared kitchen beside the fence.
A city built around the harbor bell whose silence everyone fears.
An engineering record disguised as a book of harbor debts.
An archivist whose most dangerous skill is asking for the second copy.
The hill of archives, public hearings, and careful silences.
A waterfront neighborhood measuring the tide one household at a time.
Three shores share one sea, and none can afford to let it fall silent.