The Salt House

A timber-framed drinking hall in Kelport where the walls are crusted with decades of sea spray. The Salt House is where deals are struck between ship captains and cargo merchants, and where news from Darnis Bay and the outer settlements arrives first. Its back room serves as an informal court for maritime disputes. Along the Virelay Coastlands, this site is part of the lattice of harbours, bell-towers, and salt-marshes that look toward Virelay and the Underwater Well. The sea here remembers more than the maps do; the Loosening lives in the fog. House Thorne's trade lines once stitched these settlements together — some of those routes are still walked, others have gone quiet since the Fray reached the coast.