The Gatekeepers Strike
Inspectors refused private gate orders and secured joint public inspections.
What happened
One estate had held a gate open through frost, warming its orchard while downstream mills froze. The strike replaced private instructions with posted schedules and shared witnesses. The later eleven-minute opening violates those schedules without an identifiable operator, challenging a settlement designed to prevent deliberate human cheating.
Where to look
The event is anchored at River Mistlereach. 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.
Mara still brings a ferry stool to the Assembly, making the office appear humbler than the influence behind it.
Jori inspects channels from a narrow punt with a measuring pole worn smooth at the grip.
The southern river whose irrigation gates decide who receives summer.
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.