The Salt Shore Disturbance
An uprising at the tidal salt flats south of Old Town roughly
twenty-two years before play.
What the official record says
- Three days of confrontation, in the Ward of the Salt Shore.
- Eleven dead.
- Described as a labor insurrection.
- Cheth is absent from the record
entirely — not listed among the dead.
What Tuket and Selindi told Vothrog in Turn 09
- Eleven dead is suspiciously small for three days of confrontation.
- Cheth was not killed. He was taken deliberately, by men who knew
who they were looking for. - The salt-shore workers have kept the offerings at the
Tidal Mark ever since — waiting offerings, not mourning.
What Turn 15 revealed
Krah-Moh carries a veth-cheth wave-scar — a giving mark
that can only be conferred by someone who carries Cheth’s
congregation forward. The scar is recent. The unnamed
old crab-man indicated through
Krah’s relay that Cheth appears to be alive, somewhere distant,
and that Krah came from that direction and was marked there.
The Disturbance, in other words, did not end Cheth. It scattered
him and the people who carried his teaching, and they have been
quiet for twenty-two years.
Open threads
- What is the real headcount? The Cartulary of Three Bells
may know. - Who took Cheth? Names not yet known.
- Where is Cheth now? South and east, by Krah’s gesture. The
road south is the next move of the campaign.