Lichencourt
The cedar capital where every royal decree is read beneath a living tree.
The palace occupies a ring of living cedars; walls are built between trunks rather than across roots. Petitioners can interrupt a decree by striking a hollow branch, an old right now exercised daily by forest workers. Ysabet Vey holds court at dawn so the proceedings end before the crews leave for the groves.
A new ring of pale wood appeared in every palace tree after the White Ring Harvest. Edda Vey believes it marks warmth exported during an unrecorded working. The palace gardener has concealed one unaffected sapling in a kitchen pot. It may show which part of the root network was bypassed.
Ysabet opened the warmwood groves during the refugee winter of 661 and has spent twenty-three years defending the consequences.
Orla refused a court marriage and took charge of the warning stations at Ochererbourne.
A western woodland crown whose warmth is being mortgaged to keep its neighbors alive.
Crown cedars produced a pale annual ring during a year reported as ordinary growth.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.
Siv grew up with the pictographs used by refugee families at the Glassfish Margin.