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The Margin<br>I have read as far as… Ch 1 · The Cold RoomCh 2 · The Keel-RiteCh 3 · The Storm Before the CalmCh 4 · The First KeelCh 5 · Quick or SlowCh 6 · The Long Way HomeCh 7 · The Master’s DaughterCh 8 · The First WordInterlude: The Homecoming ChestCh 9 · The Coin BenchCh 10 · The Gray HourInterlude: The Reading of the WaterCh 11 · Stale MysoanCh 12 · The Stamped WordCh 13 · The Fish-StairsInterlude: The First Sail

Tongue Alkan The eastern shore's own tongue, sister branch to Mysoan from a common parent the two shores spoke before the sea closed between them.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Master's Daughter<br>Place Alkos The eastern continent and the home shore of this book: the land of Dorynthos, of the curved Dorynth blade, and of ironwood, which no other country can grow and which the far shore…<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Storm Before the Calm<br>Character Ambrose, Master of the Letterers Master of the Letterers and Isobel's father, keeper of the thread of memory the house carries across the cycles.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Master's Daughter<br>Character Anthen, Provost of the Temple The Temple's examiner of good standing, the man whose price for the blessing is the orthodoxy clause: a license requires good standing, proven at the keel-rite, year upon year.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Coin Bench<br>Character Bram the Once-Crossed At ninety, one of the few living men of Alkos who made the last crossing, shipped as a cabin boy of eleven through the Typhon eighty years ago.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Storm Before the Calm<br>The First Keel<br>Character Brother Solen, Precentor of the Choir Precentor of the Temple choir nineteen years and a chorister fifty-one, sold up the hill at eight for a baker's debt.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: Interlude: The Reading of the Water<br>Stone Calm-stone A dark, lead-grey stone quarried only on the Galenic Isles.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Gray Hour<br>Interlude: The Reading of the Water<br>Character Cassian Marl / Esher vel-Sereth A broker of letters, languages, and long-distance credit who lives folded in two.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Long Way Home<br>The Stamped Word<br>Interlude: The First Sail<br>Character Col The Cormorant's youngest hand, sixteen, a harbor boy on his first deep water, signed for an eighth-share on Rob's promise of the first keel home.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Storm Before the Calm<br>The First Keel<br>Place Dorynthos The chokepoint city and capital of the Grand Duchy, named for the curved Dorynth blade its peninsula resembles.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Storm Before the Calm<br>The First Keel<br>The Gray Hour<br>Character Edmund Vane The younger Vane twin, careful where his brother is reckless, and the steadier hope of a fallen house.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Cold Room<br>Quick or Slow<br>The Coin Bench<br>Stale Mysoan<br>Custom Folk Charms The waterfront's charms and luck-rites, kept for nerve outside the Temple's licensed religion: red thread nailed to the mast, a word said over the morning loaves, knots tied for…<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Storm Before the Calm<br>Character Holst, sailing master of the Cormorant Sailing master of the Cormorant, a hired professional with nothing of the venture but his wage and his craft.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Storm Before the Calm<br>House House Ostrane A cautious middle bench of the Diet, devout at home and mercantile at sea, that waits to see what the room fears before it votes.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Coin Bench<br>House House Vane A fallen merchant house of Dorynthos, once an ironwood name, brought down a generation back when a new western form of contract moved the warehouses out from under it into another…<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Cold Room<br>Faction House vel-Aram An old Sereth shipwright house of the quarter, four keels and sixty men, that rang its own iron at the keel-rite for forty springs.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Keel-Rite<br>Faction House vel-Tessa A Sereth quarter house barred from the keel-rite in the same flat courtesy as vel-Aram, and joined to it by marriage at still-water, two struck houses making a wedding out of a…<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Keel-Rite<br>Timber Ironwood The shipbuilding timber that grows only on the land of Dorynthos, which no other country can match and the far shore will beggar itself to buy.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Cold Room<br>Character Isobel Vane Daughter of the Master of the Letterers, and the rarest reader on the coast: she takes stale, dead Mysoan better than anyone living, a useless gift in seventy-nine years of eighty…<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Cold Room<br>Quick or Slow<br>The Master's Daughter<br>The First Word<br>The Gray Hour<br>Stale Mysoan<br>Character Mirel vel-Sereth Esher's wife of twenty years, kept as carefully as his second name, and the braver believer of the two.<br>Updated in Carries updates from: The Long Way...