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Bram Corvel, the Late Watch
Level 5
The Crown10 silverLast seen: Palace Hill
The Crown10 silverLast seen: Palace HillWhat the City Says
Bram Corvel stood the palace vault stair for nine years before he was dismissed the very night the old Duke died. He's worked High Market ever since, gorget still on under his coat, watching every seal and signature that crosses his path like it owes him an answer.
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Your old palace gorget, the ducal crest filed off — the servants' doors of the palace never got the order to forget it.The duty-office blotter sheet — holding the pressed ghost of the order that cleared the vault stair, in a hand from the seneschal's office.a scrap of paper from the parlor's rubbish — a wine tally in the same hand as the duty-office blottera torn roster page, your own name near the bottom in the seneschal's handa scrap of guard's livery, stitched with a chandler's-guild mark — private muscle, not watch-issuedthe exact room where the seneschal's silenced clerk is being kept, two doors downa name in the public record -- the first guard on record to call the seal false to the Lord Protector's facea public offer of the title Hand of the Throne, spoken aloud before the full courtstanding orders granting him access to the vault records and the seneschal's correspondence rooma guard's sworn word — the one you just turned — plus his confirmation that the Raven-Wing mark was received inside the palace, not just sentthe guard captain's admission that he answers to someone above the Lord Protector — the first hard proof he was never loyal to the throne he guardsThe Dismissed Man's Warrantthe collar mark's match to the correspondence room's doorframea standing order confirming him head of the palace guard, provisional and unwitnessed by him until told secondhandconfirmation the vault stair's lock has been used since his dismissal, by someone with a real keyPublic Deeds
Day 30 Bram Corvel, newly ratified head of the palace guard, personally inspected the undercroft vault stair in full view of the household watch.
Day 29 The palace gate roster changed hands without a ceremony — word went round the household staff by evening that the guard answers to Bram Corvel's name now, official or not.
Day 28 claimed the rank of head of the palace guard aloud for the first time, using the title to force his way past a barred cellar door.made the Daily
Day 28 A household guard heard Bram Corvel claim the rank of head of the palace guard aloud, for the first time, to get past the cellar door.
Day 26 was named head of the palace guard once more by the inquisitor Ivy Moor, but he met the silver-badged appointment with nothing but hard silence.made the Daily
Day 26 Bram Corvel was named head of the palace guard by Ivy Moor's own word, in front of the household staff, and gave no answer.
Day 24 The fallen marshal Bram Corvel called for a horse in the Palace Hill yard to ride against the Rising Below, then was seen quietly turning back toward the household wing instead.made the Daily
Day 24 Bram Corvel called for a horse in the palace yard in front of off-duty watch, then was seen turning back toward the household wing instead.
Day 23 The Hand of the Throne swore on his gorget to ride out against the beast below — and lost the title in the same room, the same hour, to Ivy Moor.
Day 22 called the Lord Protector's inquisitor a liar and demanded trial by combat in the correspondence room, which was forbidden by the Lord Protector himself.made the Daily
Day 22 Bram Corvel called the Lord Protector's own inquisitor a liar and called for trial by combat in the correspondence room, in front of the household guard — the Lord Protector himself forbade the duel.
Day 21 handed the Lord Protector's own guards the first real clue on the correspondence-room traitor, in front of the men who nearly took him for a conspiratormade the Daily
Day 21 The Crown's own turncoat Hand handed the Lord Protector's guards the first real clue on the correspondence-room traitor — some are saying he bought his neck back with it.
Day 20 Bram Corvel stood named a liar by his own inquisitor in front of the Lord Protector and the household guard.
Day 16 Bram Corvel, the palace's new Hand of the Throne, was dragged out of the correspondence room in front of the full staff and thrown in the cells on the Lord Protector's own order.
Day 15 Turned a household guard to his own command in the palace courtyard, in full view of the staff.made the Daily
Day 15 The Hand of the Throne was seen dressing down a household guard in the palace courtyard before sending him off with new orders — the staff took it as Bram Corvel settling into command.
Day 13 Bram Corvel, the Late Watch, was publicly offered the title Hand of the Throne by the Lord Protector; he has not yet answered.made the Daily
Day 13 Bystanders in the record room watched the Lord Protector himself offer the Late Watch the title of Hand of the Throne, in front of the jeweler, the council, and half of Palace Hill's household staff.
Day 12 forced his way into the jeweler's hearing and openly challenged the authenticity of the Lord Protector's seal.made the Daily
Day 12 Bram Corvel, the Late Watch, forced his way into the jeweler's hearing and called the Lord Protector's recovered seal false in front of the whole record room.
Day 6 was seen three nights running on the same Lantern Row street, but this week, for the first time, someone else has started keeping notes on the former palace guard's movements toomade the Daily
Day 5 seen again in Lantern Row, watching a door that has started watching back; the street's begun keeping its own tally of his hours.made the Daily
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