The remembrance wall received the names on the third day after the return.
The wall was the wall that the city's northern gate's interior surface provided, the stone surface where the names of the warriors who had fallen in the city's defense during the Season of Damnation had been inscribed and where the names of the warriors who had fallen in the northern campaign would now join them. The wall's stone surface was the surface that the names' permanence required: granite, smooth, the surface that the inscription's tools could carve and that the inscription's depth could preserve against the weathering that time's passage would apply.
Three hundred and twenty names. Each name carved by the stonemason whose skill the carving required and whose pace the carving's care demanded. Each name occupying the space that the name's letters required on the wall's surface. Each name followed by the inscription that the name's bearer's service warranted: the warband, the engagement, the date.
