Karan Reach

The Reach is Karan's northern port and its cold-water gateway: chandlers, warehouses, and the only berths on the east coast deep enough for the ice trade's hulls. It grew rich outfitting the north, and the White March's frostkin migration has made that trade suddenly strategic: everything the clans flee toward passes the Reach's counting houses, and everything the crowns send north to find out why sails from its quays. The Reach's factors read the ice's moods the way farmers read sky, and their ledgers, the Chronicle has noticed, have been the world's most reliable early warning of the north's intentions for two generations.