The Guild Registry
An accounting of the hands that set the type, the press they serve, and the heretics they publish.
Established in New Volundara shortly before the Counting Day Massacre, Marrow & Tine is an independent publishing house originally specializing in cartographic treatises, Veil Taint survival guides, and first-hand field accounts deemed “logistically useful but politically inconvenient.”
Operating under Charter 11.19 of the Republic’s Free Contract of Knowledge and Cultural Dispersion, our headquarters is located in the Third Vault of the Dockward. Our motto is absolute: “Ink remembers what gold forgets.”
The Floor Roster
B. Vanderquoin
Lead Compositor
The final eye before the ink falls. Sets the type, minds the kerning, and issues the broadsheet. Maintains a tenuous peace with the Veil, the Pressman, and the squalls.
Noll Brandt
Pressman
A man of plain instruction and heavy machinery. Operates the press block. Distrusts magical pixels, despises bad copy, and often reminded to be civil with clients (with mixed results).
H. Coldstitch
Head of the Bindery
Oversees the drying week and the saddle-stitching. Enforces strict rules regarding high squalls and moonstone rain. Will not be hurried by letters or authors.
Marvin
Studio Director, Portland Expeditionary Branch
Apprentice paper cutter and Head of the Dockward Goonsquad. Our sole liaison beyond the kingdoms, stationed in Portland. The only soul this house and Master Halebrant will reliably answer.
S. Halebrant
Scholar of the Shattered Axis, Former Emissary to Azim Tural, and Eight-Time Undeclared Heretic, Excerpt taken from The Codex backmatter.
Known formally as a cartographer of cultures and a reluctant historian, Halebrant is, depending on who you ask, a war criminal, prophet, or nuisance. Born (allegedly) in the Veilwatch district of Everreach before its collapse, Halebrant received formal training at the Azure Collegium, was exiled from three major academic institutions for “methodological transgressions,” and once taught comparative relic-linguistics in a cliffside monastery that no longer appears on maps.
He has been awarded no honors that he has accepted, although one sealed commendation from Kazad Grimnir is still housed in the Deep Vaults of Tharn. His known exploits include mapping the border where the Burnline intersects with living memory, negotiating a truce between three rival cults inside a collapsed ziggurat, and returning from a failed Everreach vault expedition without his right eye but with someone else’s voice in his dreams.
He is currently presumed alive.
Or at least, still writing.
The Book That Built This House
Our first true triumph was the discreet acquisition and publication of The Codex of Valoria (Vols I & II): An Unreliable Atlas of the Post-Moonfall Realms. Originally commissioned under sealed contract by the Scholarchs of Azim Tural, it was the first comprehensive attempt to chart the fractured geographies, shattered histories, and living cultures of the wastes.
While widely circulated in the Southlands and Kazad Grimnir, the Codex remains fiercely prohibited in Galadorn. Possession of the volume is grounds for formal penance, ecclesiastical rebuke, or exile under Canon Order 47.2b – “Possession of Disputive Cosmography.” Our annotated edition includes marginalia, contradictory perspectives, and curated commentary from multiple eyewitnesses. Their disagreements are retained intentionally.
To read the Codex is to walk the broken path with open eyes. Proceed accordingly.