Settlements

“You woke on the road with Lattice-light in your veins and no memory of the night before. Harrowford's elder wants to see you.”A Light in Harrowford, when you take it

“Go home to Harrowford, Vey says. Whatever you did down there, the woman who found you among the stones has waited twenty years to hear the end of it.”Lamplight, when you take it

“Weavers weave. We never once finish a thing: we cut it off the loom and hand it on, and it goes to the Cloth Guild to be finished, fulled and stretched and cropped and folded, and the guild has a Cutter-off to take it off the loom in the first place. Maud Kerf was the last of them. My grandmother's grandmother wouldn't sit down in a room with her. When the Lattice was first woven it went to the guild's Tenter Ground in the far south below Harrowford, to be hooked out on the frames to its width, and its edge has been on those hooks ever since. If she's cutting it off at this end, she'll be unhooking it at that one. Go and see. I'll follow when I've tied off what I can.”The Tenter Ground, when you take it

“Those touched by the Lattice can seek its Trial and walk a specialised path. Its stair goes down beneath the Nine Sisters, the old stones south-west of Harrowford.”Trial of the Lattice, when you take it

“The lanterns hold the dark back, friend. Barely.”Elder Maren Tolliver, Village Elder

“Bring me ore and I'll bring you an edge.”Brannoc Ironvein, Blacksmith

“Potions, scrolls, glyphs. If you can pay, I can sell.”Wila Thistledown, Merchant

“The crypt east of town has been stirring. My guards won't go near it.”Captain Odric Hale, Captain of the Watch

“Boars are rooting through Millbrook's fields. Drive them off and Tobin will make it worth your while.”Turnip Trouble, when you take it

“My wagoner needs to reach Millbrook, and cutthroats have been prowling the road.”The Merchant's Road, when you take it

“Boars in the turnips again. And wolves. And something worse, I think.”Tobin Greaves, Farmer

“The briars creep closer to Lisswen every night, and the Bramblelings with them. The Covenant remembers those who help.”Covenant Duty: Thinning the Briars, when you take it

“The sigil leads east to the Thornwood and the Vaelin of Lisswen Hollow.”Into the Thornwood, when you take it

“The Heartroot bleeds, outsider. Something beneath it drinks.”Ithrael of the Quiet Leaves, Warden of the Hollow

“The Rootdeep Warrens were sealed for a reason. Someone unsealed them.”Kael Swiftbough, Ranger

“Rootsteel, sapwine, moonmoss. Fair trades only.”Orisande, Trader

“The threads that run out through the Gate now, the ones the Loomwright pulled: I've followed them a little further every night. Last night one of them came back. Not through the Gate. In off the sea, at Saltreach, on the tide. The harbourmaster at Gullhaven has been sending word of lights in the water since the new moon. Ask her what her boats have seen, then go out to the Greywatch Light. Whoever keeps it will have seen the most.”Lights in the Water, when you take it

“Gullhaven's boats stopped going out a week back. The nets came up so full of those threads they glowed on the shingle, and the big ones, the lantern medusae, follow them in like gulls after a trawler. Cut the warp out of the nets they've left on the shore and put the lanterns out. Hesk Wadebury's the one who'll want to know: they're his nets.”Nets of Light, when you take it

“It's lit. Look at it: a wick of warp in the Greywatch lamp, and the sea lit to the horizon. They'll come to it now and drift there under the headland, and Gullhaven can fish. But I felt where the threads go, friend. Down. There's a cave under the Light, older than the Light, and the tide fills it twice a day. Something is down there, weaving them. And someone is with it. Someone holding a lamp.”A Wick for the Greywatch, when you hand it in

“The guild buried its own, friend, in its own ground, and it had its own woman to lay them out: to wash them and close their eyes and measure them for their winding-sheets, and sew the sheets to fit. Agnes Ellery. She measured my grandmother's grandmother for hers. Measured, never wrote it down: she never forgot a measure in her life, they said. The yardwands go south and west across the whole country to the Lych Field, on the downs above the Gullhaven road. If she's measuring the Lattice, I know what for. Go and see.”The Lych Field, when you take it

“Ships go out. Fewer come back. Something in the grotto is calling them.”Harbormaster Ada Quill, Harbormaster

“Buy low, sell high, and never ask where it came from.”Fenn Galloway, Exchange Broker

“Your stash is safe with us. Safer than with you.”Moll Strongbox, Strongroom Keeper

“Want to found a guild? The charter costs gold, and friends.”Rook Varrow, Guild Registrar

“The map leads to the Cinderreach, where the Emberwatch keeps a lonely vigil.”Ash and Glass, when you take it

“Since the King fell the Gate has bled threads out into the world. This thread says it's drawing them in. Go to Emberwatch. Petra Dunmore has watched the Gate every night for twenty years, and Gatewarden Ysolde keeps it. If anything has changed, they'll have seen it first.”The Gate Drawing In, when you take it

“There are stones round the Gate older than Emberwatch, older than anything. Hem stakes, Petra calls them: the Lattice was pegged to the land with them, like a sheet on a drying green. Something is working them loose, one thread at a time. Pale things, like empty cloaks. Drive the stakes back in, and cut down whatever is pulling at them.”The Hem Stakes, when you take it

“Did you look at the cloth? Coming off the loom, between the two gates? I did, from the ridge, with my glass. It's Cinderreach, friend. Very small and very fine and the wrong way round: Emberwatch with its gate on the east side, the crater on the wrong hand, the ash going up instead of down. They're weaving the world again. Backwards. And they've woven enough of it that the twin gate opens onto it. I've written to Wenna.”The Loom in the Gate, when you hand it in

“The Choir is gathering in Old Kaldris. We need eyes inside.”Commander Ilsa Vey, Commander of the Emberwatch

“The Cinder Fall wasn't natural. The glass remembers what happened.”Scholar Petra Dunmore, Lattice Scholar

“The Lattice Gate opens to places that should not exist. Bring Waystones and I'll open the way.”Gatewarden Ysolde, Keeper of the Gate

“The sun is very loud. Nobody told me it would be so loud.”Aubrel Corrow, The First Gatewarden

“Highwatch pays well for every Hollow put back in the ground.”Bounty: The Restless, when you take it

“A key to the Spire. They meant to open it. Ride for Highwatch.”The Cinder Forge, when you hand it in

“The road climbs into Frostspire, to Highwatch Keep and the Spire above it.”The Keep at the Top of the World, when you take it

“You saw him in the flame? A shrine in the ice, and a woman's voice counting threads... The Shrine of the Quiet Frost, above Highwatch. The Weavers kept it, before the Order came. Nobody has gone up there in fifty years.”Vigil at the Nine Sisters, when you hand it in

“Highwatch has stood eight hundred years. It will not fall on my watch.”Lord Aldric Stonemere, Lord of Highwatch

“Frostforged steel holds an edge in any cold.”Grenna Coalbrow, Frostforge Smith

“Warm water. Do you know how long I've wanted my feet in warm water? Neither do I. Longer than that.”Gyda Thrum, The King's Spinster