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. Not repair — reconstruction. 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.
