Lysa Tern
Lysa asks children to count names on memorials because history should survive simple arithmetic.
The person
Lysa asks children to count names on memorials because history should survive simple arithmetic. She found the extra name at Bluebellbarrow and traced it to a landlord’s daughter. Her mother fears the discovery will be used to rehabilitate the landlords. Lysa insists an honest republic must be able to mourn an inconvenient person.
Place in the family
A child of Mara Tern and Saren Tern; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Tern.
Saren prints Assembly minutes on cheap orchard-fiber paper and leaves space for corrections.
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.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.
Sena marks ropes with colored threads identifying the crews who made them.