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Underworld

Red Lattice

Also called the Lattice

Banners and seals

  • Underworld mark of Red Lattice
    ★ Main emblem Underworld mark

A protection network around Yellow Ward's rooms and houses, through which much of the city's prostitution and visiting trade passes; it governs discretion.

Named with it

  • Sabine Rook · keeps the Red Lattice
  • Mara Vane · keeps the Lattice accounts through three lodging houses

At the table

Pays licence fees through front houses, has better information on visiting gentlemen than the council, mediates would-be blackmail and keeps a list of violent bad customers. Carried private messages during the Candlewick War.

Kind
Underworld
Region
Sarrum and Its County
Founded
c. 4580 A.C. · Restored crown
Standing
Present day
Seat and places
Yellow Ward
Named in
Book IV
Spoken of
9 times in the volumes
Where the volumes speak of it