Civic body · also Foreign institution
Lucerna Maris signal service
Also called tower service · the towers · tower families
The continuously manned signal towers of Lucerna Maris, which the port treats as its government: blessed towers, sworn keepers and elaborate codes, with vapour bells regarded as the Basin standard.
Named with it
- Tower Keeper Anselmo Duce
Ties
- the senate of Lucerna Maris has never overruled a bell but once in two hundred years
- bells rung by the Lucerna Maris bell fraternity
At the table
Its bells famously sound earlier on clear mornings than in gales, a fact recorded for four centuries and never explained. The port has emptied its quays in under an hour three times in a generation. Politics turn on the harbour, which pays, against the tower families, who serve; companies hired inland work for the towers and are watched by the harbour.