Chapter VI · The Smiths
House Ashgrove
“What is struck stays true.”
Smiths, miners and engineers. Every chain, stair and spike in the wall came out of an Ashgrove forge.
Seat
Ashgrove, the Iron Quarry
Words
What is struck stays true
Arms
Per bend argent and sable, an anvil gules
Chapter
Chapter VI · The Smiths
03 · Who they are
What this house holds, and what it wants.
The iron in the ice
Ice alone cannot hold a stair. Ashgrove drives iron pins into the face, forges the chains for the lifts and casts the braziers that Brannoch lights.
They are the only house that has never taken a side in a council vote, which makes both sides nervous.
What they want
Coal, ore and one honest contract. The first two are easier to find.
04 · Told from this house
Chapters from their point of view.
Every house gets more chapters in book two.
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