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The Cinderhall's barkeep, who hears everything and forgets nothing.
A twenty-year-old chantling pamphleteer of the Barefoot Chorus who pulls pots at the Split Reed to make rent — and prints faster than she checks.
Senior Aeviri cantor of the Echo Halls' dusk shift — rigorous, ambitious, and quietly terrified that the Night Voice is one of her own singers.
Censor-Superior of the Office of Seals and Staves — the woman who decides what Coronal may print and stage, certain she is the last thing standing between the presses and a war.
A nineteen-year-old Aeviri fledgling of the Echo Halls' dawn shift, Liriel Ovea's protégé — talented, besotted with beautiful lines, and twice on watch when the roost-window was found unlatched.
A Grimwold assessor of the Grey Tithe Hall: he prices the quarter's penance fairly, tastes its resentment yearly, and carries the family name his cousin Morwen took to House Vairre.
Proprietor of the Cormorant Counting-House: the most respectable woman in the Saltmere, twice over, in two different sets of books.
Last of the family that held the Grey Cellars' keys through the Revolt: the Saltmere's oldest money, smallest fortune, and longest memory.
Steward of Coldharbour House: thirty years in Vairre service, keeper of the household's ledgers and of everything the ledgers are careful not to say.
Impresario of the Garland Terraces and owner of the Tuning House — the woman who can sell anything, including outrage at her own sealed stage, and whose rebuilding debt is held in the Saltmere.
Senior Grimwold oathtaker of the Brinehall Chambers: she has tasted forty years of the Saltmere's lies and charges extra for the ones she is told twice.
Halbren factor-mistress of the Long Larder: the finest grading palate in the Saltmere, running the exchange like a granary before a siege.
The Brinehall Chambers' head notary: a guild man who drafts the Saltmere's contracts so cleanly that both sides think they won.
A Brine Ledger collector on Nedda Coyle's rounds: polite, punctual, and the last reminder before the impolite ones.
Songspire's most celebrated living playwright — author of 'The Iron Promise,' banned two nights into its run, and now the loudest banned man in Coronal.
Chief Lector of the Letterhold Archive: keeper of the realm's written law, seller of certified precedent to all three claimant houses, and Oathseat Pell Grieve's oldest quiet friend.
Under-clerk of seals at the censors' office who stamps writs by day and slips condemned proofs to Inkrow Lane by night — the leak Odile Merrick doesn't know she employs.