Ochererbourne
A western shore settlement painting warnings that captains can read through snow.
The houses face inland and the warning boards face the sea. Local ochre remains visible against sleet when polished signal glass fails. Apprentices learn to paint a wreck notice before they learn their own crest.
After the Glassfish Arrival, residents adopted a fleet of abandoned refugee boats as public shelters. Royal customs now proposes selling them to recover unpaid duties. Siv Vey is quietly tracing their passengers, while a boat marked empty continues to receive fresh flowers at the changing of each tide.
A western woodland crown whose warmth is being mortgaged to keep its neighbors alive.
A far-western cold-water edge famous for translucent fish and the arrival of strangers.
A wooded western port of Alceria whose shrines remember the displaced.
Shipwright terraces built from warmwood that must never be allowed to root.
A kiln town on the eastern coast that makes vessels for carrying dangerous warmth.
An isolated northeastern harbor that keeps its promises through winter isolation.