Clan Skeld

Clan Skeld keeps roads, bargains, sled teams, and insults with equal care. The Seal-Horn Line is admired for preparedness: good runners, tight stores, reliable guides, hard hands that do not tremble when the sky goes white. It is also feared because every rescue seems to leave a mark in Skeld memory. Their halls smell of seal oil, leather, smoke, iron tools, and cold wool drying near guarded fires. They claim readiness is the only honest compassion. Rivals answer that compassion becomes conquest when every blanket is folded around a future demand.