Nation 1 of 5 · my home before the journey
Vellestria
Mediterranean port, the heart of the Cartographer's Council
“I left at twenty-one. Seven years on, my grandfather is buried in the cemetery outside Old Town and his carnet says ‘begin here.’ So I begin here.”
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Chapter I, Arrival
Old Town
Where the bread is baked before dawn and nothing stays secret past noon.
Old Cemetery
The Verras stones face east. Theodor chose that. He said it was cartographically correct.
The Sealed Compass
Every important conversation in Vellestria happens here eventually, if you wait long enough.
The Harbour
Everything that leaves Vellestria and everything that comes home passes across these stones first.
The Apothecary
She worries about everyone who comes through the door. It is not nosiness. It is the only way she knows to keep people.
