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As part of the ceremony, the king mortars the joints of the Arch's keystone with a pinkish cement. Genly learns from Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, the Prime Minister or "King's Ear" and one of the most important men in the country, that the mortar is made of ground bones mixed with blood. In the old days, masons used human bones and blood, but they use the blood of animals now, Estraven tells him. (read more)
