Sereva Morn
Sereva carves names in living bark using shallow cuts designed to heal visibly.
The person
Sereva carves names in living bark using shallow cuts designed to heal visibly. She opposes monuments that pretend grief is finished. A memorial tree has begun closing over only one person’s name. Her uncle thinks the person may be alive; Sereva fears the tree may simply have been taught to forget.
Place in the family
A child of Tavia Morn and Leth Morn; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Morn.
Leth designs shared glass courtyards that can be repaired without rare materials.
House Morn derives authority from keeping nursery trees for settlements the cold has erased.
Tavia opened the Thorn Fortress to witnesses after hearing the child’s memory herself.
A local art of hearing impressions stored in living wood, powerful because its witnesses can be wrong.
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.
A sheltered capital keeping seedlings alive for forests that exist only in memory.