Saren Tern
Saren prints Assembly minutes on cheap orchard-fiber paper and leaves space for corrections.
The person
Saren prints Assembly minutes on cheap orchard-fiber paper and leaves space for corrections. Married to Mara, he is accused of writing the corrections she would prefer hidden. He has refused a government printing monopoly. His private press is nearly bankrupt, giving their opponents a way to threaten him without banning a word.
Place in the family
Married to Mara Tern. Their children are Lysa Tern, Perrin Tern and Anet Tern.
Anet grafts plum branches and keeps a diary of flowering dates beside the family’s political arguments.
Lysa asks children to count names on memorials because history should survive simple arithmetic.
Perrin learned to repair clock escapements using scrap from confiscated estate machinery.
House Tern is a family, not a legal dynasty: Mara holds an elected office and her children inherit no seat.
Mara still brings a ferry stool to the Assembly, making the office appear humbler than the influence behind it.
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.