The Open Keel Vote
Qirarden allowed displaced sailors to train as pilots, without yet giving them equal council votes.
What happened
The compromise separated the right to work from the right to govern the harbor. It relieved labor shortages and created a politically excluded group paying pilot dues. Ari’s school is finding channels established clans never documented. Tessa Damar now asks why people trusted with passengers are not trusted with ballots.
Where to look
The event is anchored at Nettlepond. Related witnesses and institutions appear in the connections rather than being treated as a detached chronology.
Neris receives foreign captains in a warehouse whose doors remain open during council meetings.
Fara negotiates between arriving crews and households asked to shelter them.
Ari opened the Nettlepond school to displaced sailors and local children together.
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.