The Long Lease

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The vale counts its years from the signing of the lease, so this summer is Lease Year 300. From the fair onward, days are counted from Midsummer. Append new rows; do not rewrite old ones.

The first three hundred summers

When Real-world What
The founding, Lease Year 1, midsummer Setting, S0 Queen Maudry and Orpiment seal The Lease of Quillet on the stone above The Tally Cliffs.
The founding, Lease Year 3 Setting, S0 The Founder charters Summerhythe at the ford of the Brisk.
The founding, Lease Year 44 Setting, S0 Maudry is buried in Maudry’s Barrow with her sword and the counterpart copy of the lease.
The long quiet, Lease Year 161 Setting, S0 Floods reach the muniment room of Marigold Keep; the Crown’s copy of the lease goes to Sealwright Hall.
Lately, Lease Years 298 and 299 Setting, S0 Two failed harvests and the old Queen’s illness; the Crown borrows heavily from Marrable and Daughters.
Lately, Lease Year 300, spring Setting, S0 Queen Hesper is crowned at twenty-two with an empty treasury.

Lease Year 300

In-game Real-world What
Midsummer, day 1, morning S1, 2026-07-11 The fair opens on the green. Beatrix is on the north tower, Kit on the Wool Exchange roof, Odda in its bell tower, Iveth at a stationer’s stall.
Day 1, noon S1, 2026-07-11 Orpiment lands on the Wool Exchange, reads the term and the due date, and declines the Chancellor’s gold. See The Landlady’s Landing.
Day 1, afternoon S1, 2026-07-11 Twelve Shedlings go through the fair looking for heat. The Wardens-to-be meet them among the bread ovens.
Day 1, evening S1, 2026-07-11 Queen Hesper names the four Wardens of the Lease over Wystan Pye’s objection.
Day 2 S2, 2026-07-25 A flood register in Marigold Keep shows the Crown’s copy went to the Sealwrights in Lease Year 161.
Day 3, morning S2, 2026-07-25 The chain ferry to Sealwright Hall. Oswy Hebden reads the commission twice and gives them Clemency Vare as a guide.
Day 3, noon S2, 2026-07-25 Five Smirches and a greater one in the lowest vault. Odda’s bells drive them back.
Day 3, afternoon S2, 2026-07-25 The Crown’s copy is missing its second leaf, cut within the month. Kit finds a razor wrapped in gold thread. See The Cut Page.
Day 5 S3, 2026-08-08 A day’s poling upstream to the Holt End landing.
Day 5, evening S3, 2026-08-08 Gammer Tansy Holt teaches the barrow-verse, and Odda learns it in harmony.
Day 6, morning S3, 2026-08-08 Odda answers the Barrow Chorister and the door of Maudry’s Barrow opens. See The Chorister’s Verse.
Day 6, afternoon S3, 2026-08-08 Iveth reads the Founder’s copy of the lease by lamplight and finds the rent. Beatrix takes Fair Terms.
Day 6, dusk S3, 2026-08-08 Kit sees two carriage lamps on the valley road, coming north out of town until they stop by the Brisk.
Day 7, evening S3, 2026-08-08 Back in town, the Wardens learn that Emlyn Crewe left the Keep the evening before in a patron’s carriage with green lamps.

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