The Stamp was rechristened Ironhold on Day 410, one week after the siege. The renaming was Krug's idea — delivered through the bond, refined by the Voice, announced to the combined population of minotaurs and occupying soldiers as a statement of fact rather than a request. This is Ironhold. This is what it has become. The minotaurs accepted it the way they accepted everything since the fall: with the stunned compliance of people whose world had changed too fast for protest.
The reconstruction began immediately. Reconstruction, not repair. Zephyr didn't want the old fortress maintained. He wanted it transformed. The difference mattered. A repaired fortress was a conquered fortress with fresh paint. A transformed fortress was a statement about what conquest meant under the Cog-and-Flame.
