Kelda

Kelda is a floating town, forty hulls and a hundred sledges lashed together in the lee of the shelf, and it moves when the ice tells it to. It began as a wintering raft of stranded ice-trade crews who discovered by spring that they preferred each other to their home ports, and it has been electing its harbourmaster and drifting with the seasons ever since. The clans trade with Kelda as with a clan; the crowns list it, to its delight, as a vessel. As the ice's thaw quickens, the town's drift has been trending steadily south, which Kelda's council discusses in public as weather and in private as what it is: the town is being moved off the ice by the same things emptying it.