The Rootwood Departure
The first large export convoy carried living cedar roots to foreign heat networks.
What happened
The contracts promised renewable warmth from renewable timber. Gardeners warned that roots connected to a living grove could move more than the warmth contained in the shipment. Their objection was entered as a maintenance note rather than a policy question. The distinction determined which officials were required to read it.
Where to look
The event is anchored at Cedarterrace. Related witnesses and institutions appear in the connections rather than being treated as a detached chronology.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.
Deren came from Cedarterrace and still carries a pitch-stained folding rule to formal dinners.
Independent listeners heard a child asking to go home inside the fortress cedar.
Surveyors found warm water beneath old ice and collected the jar now examined in Garnetrun.
The tidekeeper ordered a precautionary evacuation before the next unscheduled opening upstream.
Shipwright terraces built from warmwood that must never be allowed to root.