Arcane studies · also Learned body
Ash House
The Cambridge field house at Sarrum (founded 4608) where the Schola and White Walls examiners study green coal, deep and light iron, treated aerial materials and strange residues; it may condemn a process but cannot issue a final certificate.
A research body that records correlations and samples air, residue and green coal from deep workings. It holds three standing hypotheses about green coal and manifestations and refuses the common wording that spirits are drawn to it. A Cambridge research post in Sarrum where examiners work at source on green coal, deep iron and manifestations in the deepest workings, compare residues and issue retrieval warrants.
Named with it
- Doctor Hollis Prewitt
- Alchemist Cecily Harrow
Ties
- Cambridge examiners linked to the Collegium
- links Sarrum companies to the Retrieval Office
- run by the Schola and the White Walls
- leases its compound from White Falcon
- formally tied into Cambridge's Retrieval Office
- at odds with the Black Lantern Brethren at shaft mouths
At the table
Sarrum companies tolerate it because certification and reopened shafts are worth the delay; Oxford critics see it as technical curiosity outrunning Reclamation. Charter companies complain of its delays and compete for its attention. A company it retains is treated as a Cambridge instrument; it has surveyed the underground only beneath its own lease. Will attend a question if it can be framed as research; asks for hours at a shaft mouth to take a trace while the Brethren want suppression. Says each new deepening finds less continuous ground.