Jalen Oss
Jalen coordinates boats without claiming command over their owners.
The person
Jalen coordinates boats without claiming command over their owners. He offered Iven Morn passage to the memorial grove because the question mattered, then discovered both a royal courier and a fugitive needed the same crossing. He will carry all three if they leave their quarrel ashore. The river may make that condition impossible to keep.
Place in the family
A child of Bast Oss and Una Oss, with roots in Nettlepond that matter beyond court titles.
Una keeps dry clothing in every rescue shed and mends it in deliberately mismatched colors so nobody can sell it as new.
Tali learns warning calls by making older pilots explain their gestures.
Eren captained the rescue that recovered two crews with the same departure story.
Nima argues that being rescued should not bind a person to lifelong gratitude.
Bast began the overdue lists after officials declared his brother dead to divide a boat.
Tovel makes rescue craft light enough for two exhausted people to drag above surge.