The Lakeglass Kin-Moot

Bloodline Council — Nord-Vast#

"They remember every oath back to the third generation. Whether this makes them reliable or dangerous depends entirely on which oaths they remember about you." — Amber Sledge League senior factor

The Lakeglass Kin-Moot convenes at ancient hall-sites around the mirror lakes of Nord-Vast's interior, assembling representatives of the northern noble bloodlines in a council where inheritance is determined through a process that weights genealogy and remembered oath in roughly equal proportion. The genealogical component is straightforward enough: lineage is documented and disputed through a formal oral record maintained by professional remembrancers attached to each bloodline. The oath component is more complex and more contentious, since it requires all parties to agree on what was promised, by whom, and under what conditions, and northern memory is long and creative.

Kin-Moot feuds are among the most durable political phenomena in the known world. Because formal warfare between bloodlines requires the Moot's implicit sanction — going to war without that sanction makes the aggressor liable to a coalition response — disputes are instead prosecuted through competition, strategic marriages, the manipulation of remembrancer testimony, and the occasional private violence that both parties agree not to officially acknowledge. Feuds documented in the Moot's oral record can be traced back six generations without resolution, the original grievance preserved in amber while new layers of injury accumulate around it.

Adventurers hired to perform work in Lakeglass territory should clarify at the outset which bloodline is commissioning them, as many tasks that appear straightforward are in fact moves in ongoing Moot disputes, and being identified as an instrument of one bloodline effectively closes doors with their rivals for the duration of any visit.