The Map Room

The principia’s largest ground-floor space: the full extent of the Terminus Magnus mapped on the room’s three interior walls, updated daily with signal reports from the milecastles and border crossings. The frontier clans’ known positions, patrol patterns, and seasonal movement routes are overlaid on the wall maps in the Speculatores’ notation system. The intelligence about the goblin deep-road movement and the two orc clan chiefs’ questions to Thane Gorund is on a separate document on the map table, marked ‘unverified — not for circulation,’ and has been in that status for six weeks. The morning briefing here is not open to the Governor’s liaison officer.