Assembly of Furrows
A republic whose irrigation districts send recallable representatives to Elmyard.
Representatives bring their own stools so an absent district is visible. Gate schedules and grain reserves are published on the same board as speeches. The Assembly’s weakness is not a lack of rules but unequal access to the time required to attend: ferrymen and mechanics can dominate a meeting farmers cannot leave their fields to join.
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.
Southern farmers who won a republic and inherited a failing source of warmth.
A coastal confederacy governed by obligations to supply and rescue distant harbors.
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.