Ai generated image of the coastline of Otsana. We follow whispers from the western coast for some time before the name Ingemar begins appearing with enough regularity to demand attention. House Ingemar governs the Otsana coast and has done so for generations, its estate standing high above the cliffs and the ports beyond them. Old money rarely travels alone. It carries marriages, debts, favours, and alliances with it, and few houses in the west accumulate more of them. Those