Editing Black Heath (section)

=== A Dismissed Holding ===
Black Heath is a sphere within the domain of the '''[[Kingdom of Canmore]]''', though it occupies the lowest rung of the kingdom's hierarchy of importance [1]. The Canmore are the mason kings and queens of the River — a dynasty that built its reputation and its power on the mastery of stone [1]. Their great fortresses, carved cities, and monumental constructions are regarded as wonders across the spheres [1]. The Canmore identity is inseparable from this craft: to be Canmore is to shape the world with quarried stone and enduring design [1].

Black Heath is the antithesis of everything the Canmore value [1].

The world cannot be quarried [1]. The forest resists clearing [1]. Foundations laid without the root network's cooperation are slowly shifted, buckled, and swallowed [1]. There is no stone worth cutting, no promontory worth fortifying, no flat ground worth claiming that the forest has not already decided the use of [1]. The living architecture of the Tappers — structures grown in cooperation with the trees, walls of woven root, canopy roofs shaped by negotiation rather than engineering — is not impressive to the Canmore [1]. It is the opposite of impressive [1]. It is surrender [1]. It is letting nature dictate terms instead of imposing one's will upon it, which to a mason culture is an admission of weakness [1].