Sisters of the Unspent Hour
A hospice fellowship sheltering people injured by magical work.
The fellowship records what a working cost in lost health and missed ordinary days. Its ledgers are deliberately unlike spellbooks: there is no column for glory. Members oppose both compulsory magical service and the romantic claim that injury proves devotion. They hold testimony from patients older than their official birth dates.
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.
A mountain fortress whose red stone conceals a hospice rather than an army.
A measurable craft that moves existing heat through prepared vessels and living roots.
The Rusks earned the marchwardenship by maintaining winter shelters, not by possessing the largest estate.
House Morn derives authority from keeping nursery trees for settlements the cold has erased.
The western crown began as a compact between forest wardens and three coastal guilds.
The Pells are instrument makers without noble rank.