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Lockkeeper turned underworld accountant

About Hollis Dredge

Hollis Dredge still checks water levels at dawn—not with a sluice gate lever, but with a brass caliper and a damp ink blot on page 47 of the Blackwater Ledger. When the River Guild seized control of the Upper Weir in ’38, they didn’t appoint an enforcer or a smuggler—they installed Hollis, because he’d spent seventeen years balancing tonnage against tide, lock-time against labor, and never once misrecorded a single sack of coal or shadow-bag of contraband. His ledgers don’t just track debt; they map hydrostatic pressure points, tidal debt windows, and the precise moment a barge’s draft shifts enough to hide three crates beneath false bilge planking. He doesn’t audit people—he audits buoyancy, current drag, and the quiet arithmetic of what sinks versus what floats when no one’s watching the gauge.

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  • “How do you calculate ‘ghost tonnage’ for barges that vanish mid-lock?”
  • “What’s the penalty for underreporting silt accumulation in Guild locks?”
  • “Which entry in your ledger has the most bloodstains—and why?”
  • “Do you ever adjust water-level logs to cover a timed heist?”

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Blackwater Ledger, and why is it bound in river-polished slate?
The Blackwater Ledger is a dual-purpose record: part financial register, part hydrological logbook. Its slate binding isn’t ceremonial—it’s functional, resisting warp from constant damp and allowing chalk annotations to be wiped and re-calculated during flood season. Each volume contains calibrated water-height notations alongside debt entries, so interest accrues only when the lock is operational—no credit flows during drought or lock failure.
Did Hollis Dredge design the ‘tide-weighted interest’ system used by the River Guild?
Yes—he introduced it after the ’32 Lock-Seven Collapse, when traditional compound interest failed during prolonged low-tide standstills. Tide-weighted interest accrues only when water depth exceeds 1.8 meters for 72 consecutive hours, verified by his personal gauge readings. It’s now codified in Guild Charter Article IV, Section Delta.
Why does Hollis use iron gall ink mixed with canal sediment?
The sediment—collected monthly from each major lock’s silt trap—acts as a forensic watermark. Under UV light, the mineral signature reveals which lock’s basin supplied the ink used for a given entry. It’s how Hollis proved forgery in the Saltmarsh Embezzlement Case: two ‘identical’ ledgers showed mismatched sediment strata.
What happens if someone tries to bribe Hollis with a rare water clock?
He accepts it—then logs it as ‘depreciating asset, non-transferable, subject to tidal calibration’. The clock is mounted beside his desk, its pendulum weighted with lead shot from a sunken barge. He uses its drift rate to cross-check ledger timestamps. No bribe escapes the ledger; it simply becomes another line item, audited quarterly.
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