Kurnumgrath

{
  "aliases": [
    "the First Cut",
    "the Old Hold"
  ],
  "content": {
    "culture": "Formal, archival, and slow. Kurnumgrath keeps the oldest craft-rites and the strictest apprenticeships, and produces a disproportionate share of the Council\u0027s geomantic seers. Its people have a reputation across Namuzdus for being insufferable about seniority and, when it matters, for being right about it.",
    "description": "Kurnumgrath is the first place the Kaetijul cut into the Namuzdus range after the Naming, and it shows: the galleries are the deepest, the stonework the most laboured, and the ore long since taken. What remains is a holdfast that is magnificent, half-empty, and acutely conscious of both facts. Its lower works are maintained as much for their own sake as for use, which the other holdfasts consider either reverence or vanity depending on the decade.",
    "economy": "Exhausted veins, worked-out galleries, and an economy that has shifted to stone-cutting, restoration work, the training of runesmiths, and the accommodation of pilgrims and archivists. Kurnumgrath is subsidised by the Council in all but name, a dependency it resents and its rivals mention.",
    "politics": "The seat of the isolationist faction. The argument runs that Namuzdus sold its independence for Izheim\u0027s custom, that the Deepmetal will not last, and that a people who once needed no one now cannot feed themselves without a road. The Echoed Crown Prophecy \u2014 the mountain awakens when blood meets stone \u2014 is read here more literally than anywhere else, and Kurnumgrath\u0027s seers are the ones who first pronounced on it.",
    "relation_to_namuzdus": "One of the three founding holdfasts of the Triple Spire pact, Fifth Age 721 (MV 10327). Holds opening precedence in the Stonecrown Council.",
    "significance": "Kurnumgrath holds the ceremonial precedence in Council business \u2014 its speaker opens each session \u2014 and the custody of the founding record of the Triple Spire pact. Neither is a formal veto. Both are used as one."
  },
  "id": "settlements.kurnumgrath",
  "meta": {
    "note": "Named in history.events.the_gathering_at_three_spires; no entity existed.",
    "status": "proposed"
  },
  "name": "Kurnumgrath",
  "native": "",
  "relations": {
    "geographic_location": [
      "Namuzdus",
      "Silgolt"
    ],
    "related_organizations": [
      "Stonecrown Council",
      "Namuzdus Dominion"
    ],
    "related_species": [
      "Kaetijul"
    ]
  },
  "sources": {},
  "subtype": "holdfast",
  "summary": "The oldest of the three founding holdfasts of Namuzdus and the poorest of them, worked out of ore generations ago and living now on precedence, memory, and the moral authority of having been first. Kurnumgrath supplies the Stonecrown Council with its legitimacy and its conservatism in roughly equal measure, and it is the home of the isolationist faction that lost the Stonecrown Schism and has been quietly winning the argument back ever since the Echoed Crown Prophecy.",
  "tags": [
    "namuzdus",
    "kaetijul",
    "holdfast",
    "silgolt",
    "isolationism"
  ],
  "timeline": {},
  "type": "settlement"
}