---
type: Place
title: Little Moriny
description: A lighthouse station where Maren Aldervane's father served as keeper.
tags:
- kelvarra
- lighthouse
- the-institute
- tidal-survey
resource: raw/a-life-at-the-water-line.md
timestamp: '2026-07-16T14:52:05Z'
citadel_version: 0.3.0
---

# Little Moriny

Little Moriny is a lighthouse station where [Maren Aldervane](../persons/maren-aldervane.md)'s father kept the light.[^s1] It is also one of the Republic of Kelvarra's three main population-carrying islands, alongside Ilvess and Sarn, out of the archipelago's fourteen.[^s2]

Its logbook recorded measured oil and wick use, plus visibility estimates guessed at dawn and dusk, across three keepers and forty years.[^s1] Reading the full run of that logbook at age eleven, Aldervane concluded that "the guesses of careful men, laid end to end, become something better than guesses" — an insight she credits as the germ of [The Institute](../organizations/the-institute.md), conceived that afternoon in the lamp room though it took another quarter century to realize.[^s1]

Little Moriny is also one of the nine stations of the [Brann Tidal Survey](../projects/brann-tidal-survey.md), sited at the light.[^s3] The Survey's 1987 report records with regret the retirement of Mrs H. Corliss after twenty-two seasons at the station, whose sheets it calls the cleanest it has ever received and whose tea, it says, was the reason the proving party always began its rounds in the north; her granddaughter takes up the station book with the new season.[^s4]

Having just finished the [Port Ilvess](port-ilvess.md) harbour tower clock, [Tomas Ferrick](../persons/tomas-ferrick.md) recorded in his workshop day-book on 30 September 1963 that his next commission was a house-size clock for the light at Little Moriny.[^s5]

## See also
- [Maren Aldervane](../persons/maren-aldervane.md)
- [The Institute](../organizations/the-institute.md)
- [Republic of Kelvarra](republic-of-kelvarra.md)
- [Brann Tidal Survey](../projects/brann-tidal-survey.md)
- [Tomas Ferrick](../persons/tomas-ferrick.md)

## Sources
[^s1]: [raw/a-life-at-the-water-line.md](../../raw/a-life-at-the-water-line.md), lines 7-13 — the lighthouse logbook and the seed of the Institute (ingested 2026-07-04)
[^s2]: [raw/almanac-of-kelvarra-1998.md](../../raw/almanac-of-kelvarra-1998.md), lines 5-7 — one of the three main population-carrying islands (ingested 2026-07-04)
[^s3]: [raw/brann-tidal-survey-1987.md](../../raw/brann-tidal-survey-1987.md), lines 12-15 — one of the Brann Tidal Survey's nine stations, sited at the light (ingested 2026-07-04)
[^s4]: [raw/brann-tidal-survey-1987.md](../../raw/brann-tidal-survey-1987.md), lines 46-49 — the retirement of Mrs H. Corliss (ingested 2026-07-04)
[^s5]: [raw/ferrick-workshop-notes.md](../../raw/ferrick-workshop-notes.md), lines 54-58 — Ferrick's next commission, a house-size clock for the Little Moriny light, 30 September 1963 (ingested 2026-07-04)
