Tuesday, 30 August 2022

The Fishers Of The Obala

A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, XVI.

The zmayi fishers of the Obala on the east coast of the Rodna continent on Dennitza can find some of the truth. See the previous post.

Kyrwedhin is:

moot-lord of the steadcaptains of the Obala;
Hand of the Vach Mannoch;
the owner of a fleet;
a graduate of the Shkola;
a member of the House of the Zmayi in the Shkoptsina;
a correspondent with Korvash, Hand of the Vach Rueth on Merseia;
an acquaintance of Lazar Ristich, voivode of Kom Kutchi and member of the House of the Lords.

For what it is worth, the tone of Korvash's letters gives no indication of any imminent attack by Merseia. Lazar Ristich, who has close contact with Terra, says that a person of Kossara's rank, the Gospodar's niece, could only have been enslaved as a deliberate provocation which the present Imperium would not do. When Ristich tries to speak to Gospodar Bodin about this, he is stalled by aides, something which Bodin would not knowingly allow to happen. Then Terran officers arrest Bodin for treason. Many Dennitzans have settled in nearby planetary systems and one special assistant to the Gospodar, born in another system, has become the ranking Imperial in the Zorian System and thus the Emperor's representative, the first important person in the Zamok that the Terrans had managed to contact.

The Obala fishers discern the course of the conspiracy.

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