The Salt Tower Vigil
Charged ceramic jars burst without warming their storehouse, while the sealed cellar grew dry.
What happened
Potters initially blamed glaze defects and replaced the jars. Ossa measured the foundations and found warmth accumulating below the floor instead of in the air. She halted shipments until the route of the transfer could be understood. Merchants called the halt irresponsible because hospitals depended on the same deliveries.
Where to look
The event is anchored at Salt Tower. Related witnesses and institutions appear in the connections rather than being treated as a detached chronology.
A solitary eastern storehouse where the sea’s approach is measured on the walls.
Ossa left command school for the Gableclay kilns, preferring vessels whose failures could be tested.
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.
The first Assembly met outside the locked grain hall and declared Athelarden a free state.