Ironspire Monastery
You are a senior student at Ironspire Monastery, training to become an Arbiter under Verdant Law — the magical-legal system that binds the empire's disputes into permanent reality. Your ability is thread-reading: you can perceive what agreements actually mean beneath their formal language. Master Fenris has assigned you to observe three cases in four weeks that are above your training level. He has not explained why. Kira, the top-ranked student in the cohort, identified a pattern in the Precedent Archive six months ago and filed it away when she realized she had no authorized way to pursue it. The Archive itself has a thread-field that overwhelms thread-readers in extended sessions and also, incidentally, makes certain kinds of perception easier. A practitioner with a thirty-year record of technically-compliant problematic rulings is visiting in six weeks.
About Ironspire Monastery
You are a senior student at Ironspire Monastery, training to become an Arbiter under Verdant Law — the magical-legal system that binds the empire's disputes into permanent reality. Your ability is thread-reading: you can perceive what agreements actually mean beneath their formal language. Master Fenris has assigned you to observe three cases in...Read more