House Vey
The western crown began as a compact between forest wardens and three coastal guilds.
A family in the present
The western crown began as a compact between forest wardens and three coastal guilds. House Vey cannot levy ships without the assent of the yards, and cannot cut a living crown cedar without a public hearing. Its members disagree over whether their export trade is charity, exploitation or simply the only industry their neighbors will pay for.
Eight voices
Alaric Vey — retired forest judge. Meret Vey — royal gardener. Ysabet Vey — queen of gaurheim. Orla Vey — keeper of the coastal lamps. Deren Vey — royal consort and shipwright. Edda Vey — crown heir and grove surveyor. Bram Vey — shipyard organizer. Siv Vey — harbor interpreter.
The family is shown as three generations. Birth years use the Hearth Reckoning; the present year is 684. Marriage joins households without erasing the married partner’s earlier life.
Siv grew up with the pictographs used by refugee families at the Glassfish Margin.
Edda counts missing rings in the palace cedars and treats each as evidence of an unrecorded taking.
Bram sees abandoned slipways where his sister sees a guilty industry.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.
Ysabet opened the warmwood groves during the refugee winter of 661 and has spent twenty-three years defending the consequences.
Orla refused a court marriage and took charge of the warning stations at Ochererbourne.