A sawdust-covered
path winds through clusters of wooden handles and
stacks of chitin and bone in this workshop.
Apprentices busily build wagons and howdah
frames here, and plan the frames of argosies to be
constructed in a secure staging area outside the
walls. Tensin and her four brothers wield the
hammers themselves with teams of specialists on
large projects: expensive, built to custom
specifications, and payable in advance. A section
of the shop’s wall is bricked over, repaired from a
recent collapse of an oversized mekillot howdah.
The family is deeply respectful of king Hamanu
and Tensin’s brother Gahul is always alert for any
statements that speak ill of the king. He will call a
customer a liar for any such offense and may even
notify templars if the statement was egregious
enough.