The Long Reclaiming

The Long Reclaiming was the generational campaign to reopen collapsed galleries, restore abandoned workshops, clear poisoned shafts, repair the Sevenfold Stair, and bring scattered kin back under the Hearth-Stone Covenant. It made Dovarim proud again, with songs of picks, lamps, brace beams, stretcher crews, and first feasts in halls thought lost. It also created bitter disputes over who owned what had been recovered. Victory in the dark proved easier than agreement in the light. Its beauty is endurance restored; its dread is every old claim waking with the dust.