The Breadless Siege
Farm cooperatives supplied a hunger strike through caves beneath the southern orchards.
What happened
The strike did not begin as a war of independence. Workers demanded open grain ledgers and predictable gate schedules. Barons locked the stores; ferrymen moved food through the cove. When guards refused to arrest the millers, the old administration could no longer collect duties without openly starving the people who grew its grain.
Where to look
The event is anchored at Cove of Otha. Related witnesses and institutions appear in the connections rather than being treated as a detached chronology.
Oldren carried grain barons for pay and hunger strikers without it.
Hessa organized the mill shifts that kept the strike kitchens supplied.
A sheltered recess beneath the southern farm country, used by smugglers and rescue crews alike.
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.