Hessa Tern
Hessa organized the mill shifts that kept the strike kitchens supplied.
The person
Hessa organized the mill shifts that kept the strike kitchens supplied. She can judge a harvest by the dust left on a sleeve. She opposes treating warm water as free because maintaining gates requires labor. Her proposal pays inspectors a fixed public wage rather than a share of the crops they can threaten.
Place in the family
Their children are Mara Tern and Jori Tern. Family authority does not settle the disagreement described above.
Mara still brings a ferry stool to the Assembly, making the office appear humbler than the influence behind it.
Jori inspects channels from a narrow punt with a measuring pole worn smooth at the grip.
House Tern is a family, not a legal dynasty: Mara holds an elected office and her children inherit no seat.
Oldren carried grain barons for pay and hunger strikers without it.
The first Assembly met outside the locked grain hall and declared Athelarden a free state.
Victims of the strike were buried above the warm conduits, including one person whose identity remains disputed.