The Night Without Lanterns
Eastern rescue lights were deliberately darkened while refugee vessels waited offshore.
What happened
Commanders cited harbor capacity and food shortages. Several towers received orders different from those preserved in the official register. The resulting losses are still being reconstructed from passenger accounts, salvage claims and signal cloth. Some missing ships may have been renamed rather than sunk, making the search a living legal conflict.
Where to look
The event is anchored at Dawning Beacon. Related witnesses and institutions appear in the connections rather than being treated as a detached chronology.
Essra designed mirror shutters that can be operated by a single exhausted keeper.
Vaelor signed the order that darkened the towers, claiming the ports could not feed more arrivals.
The northernmost promise in the eastern rescue network.
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.