Mara Tern
Mara still brings a ferry stool to the Assembly, making the office appear humbler than the influence behind it.
The person
Mara still brings a ferry stool to the Assembly, making the office appear humbler than the influence behind it. She believes the irrigation clocks can be repaired without reopening the treaty. Her daughter Lysa calls this an engineer’s answer to a political wound. Mara has commissioned independent measurements while publicly denying there is a crisis.
Place in the family
A child of Oldren Tern and Hessa Tern, with roots in Elmyard that matter beyond court titles.
Oldren carried grain barons for pay and hunger strikers without it.
Anet grafts plum branches and keeps a diary of flowering dates beside the family’s political arguments.
Saren prints Assembly minutes on cheap orchard-fiber paper and leaves space for corrections.
Hessa organized the mill shifts that kept the strike kitchens supplied.
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.