Marchwarden of Umarwald
An office renewed by rescue captains after seven winters, held by Anja Rusk.
The marchwarden may requisition a heated building during mortal cold but remains answerable for unnecessary losses. The law was written to prevent private owners abandoning strangers. Creditors now use the same accountability clause to threaten Anja personally for a rescue that saved hundreds.
Its role in the current crisis connects ordinary work to the larger dispute over who benefits, who pays and who is allowed to describe what happened.
Anja governs through rescue obligations rather than parade orders.
Aranestel’s combined escort and rescue fleet, divided over its own history.
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.
Sena marks ropes with colored threads identifying the crews who made them.
The Rusks earned the marchwardenship by maintaining winter shelters, not by possessing the largest estate.