Streets of Kethra
Every name leads somewhere.
A city remembers rulers, workers and the people who first laid its lanes. These walks connect named people to their surroundings while keeping family claims separate from street names.
Map status: the fifteen city plans and their street names are established in the Almanac. Some harbour and placement questions remain open in the linked plans.
Caldren Crown / approved city plan
Aletheia
Tidewards quay / Patience Stair / Founders’ Walk / Halden House
The walking axis passes Lowtown markets, the Exchange, Royal Academy, Hall of Voices and Great Choir before reaching the palace. The plan estimates nine kilometres and about two hours from quay to Halden House. Step Seven groups streets named for earlier Crown monarchs: Maelis Way, Lucan Lane, Corin Street and Wenna Street.
A resident gives directions by step and stair. The palace is the end of a climb through the working city, not an isolated emblem.
The Line Free Ports / approved city plan
Saltline
Congress Hill / Exchange Quarter / Carrier Roads
The streets near the Tide Congress carry the doubled names of earlier Portreeves. Downhill, Long Patience Street and Lodestar Street recall great carriers and Founders’ ships. Tenders connect the isles and the lagoon anchorage.
Nilufar chairs the Congress but has no street while in office. At Saltline, the street names remember prior public service and the carriers that built the port.
The Free Oreth Coast / approved city plan
Tessmere
Old City / Pieter Ruel Street / Refuge Office
The Old City streets carry earlier First Consuls’ whole names: Pieter Ruel, Jana Holt, Senna Tey and Pieter Voss. Nearby, the Senate and Refuge Office turn a remembered welcome into daily work.
The sitting First Consul is Ilse Varro. The plan leaves her name off the streets and avoids a Varro street because existing names are already too close.
The Meres / approved city plan
Sallow
Mere Isle / Moot Green / Captain’s Causeway
The city stands on causeways among the Meres. The plan places the elected Meremoot on the Mere Isle and names a causeway for Captain Ingrid Sallow. Boats of the Mere Wardens patrol the channels; autumn fog can close the railway for days.
The current queen belongs to House Callow. An older house, Meresby, claimed descent from the captain. A street honoring Ingrid does not prove a family link to Nesta.
Northern winter / approved city plan
Ormsby
Covered markets / heated streets / Sól and Theia avenues
The New Town plan crosses numbered streets with avenues named for both sets of sky names: Sól and Theia, Máni and Pandia, then Hyperion and Long Night. These names sit in a city of covered markets and heated streets.
The reigning king and his named successor have no streets in the plan. The twin sky names show which worlds of language meet here; they do not settle succession.
The Republic / approved city plan
Pellmoor
Moot Quarter / Rhys Hale Street / People’s Moot
The Moot Quarter puts former presidents’ streets near the People’s Moot and the Pit Lamp newspaper. Rhys Hale Street honours a former president. The sitting president is deliberately not given a street.
Liz Hale shares Rhys Hale’s surname. The record does not establish kinship, so the street is a history of office rather than a clue to her ancestry.
Southern Holds / approved city plan
Eldhaven
Old Hold / Terraces / Hesket Lane
The Terraces’ Gift-line streets include Wren Lane, Lisbet Lane and Hesket Lane, near the College of the Holds. A lane can carry the name of a line without becoming that line’s address.
Wynne is of the Hesket line and of Kettleby. Nothing here establishes that she lives on Hesket Lane.
Vardane Imperium / approved city plan
Vardenhold
Citadel island / Second Ring / marshal quarters
The city plan groups streets of past Imperators around the Citadel and Imperial Families around the marshal quarters. Each of twelve quarters faces the holding it represents.
Three earlier Imperators also bore the name Casimir. A Casimir street cannot be assigned to the reigning one without further evidence.
The Stair / approved city plan
Arvenne
Old Town / Gaspard Street / Tancred Lane
The Old Town plan remembers past monarchs in Gaspard Street, Tancred Lane, Odo Lane, Ysolde Street and Maelle Street. House Carrow itself has no street, to avoid a collision with the Harrow names.
The place carries dynastic memory while the current queen has to decide what Crown troops may do on Stair-side soil.
The free city / approved city plan
Brightwick
Guild streets / old First Burgesses / unsold fields
Guild trades and earlier First Burgesses shape the street names. Older lanes retain founders’ names; new estates grow around fields whose owners never sold.
Lark Vintner, the sitting First Burgess, has no street. Neither do the two candidates for her office. The map remembers a civic past without announcing the next vote’s result.
What a street name cannot tell us
A surname can recur. A house may deliberately have no street. A route can be settled while a harbour question remains open. Follow the linked plan for the approved details and its unresolved questions.
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