Deren Vey
Deren came from Cedarterrace and still carries a pitch-stained folding rule to formal dinners.
The person
Deren came from Cedarterrace and still carries a pitch-stained folding rule to formal dinners. He negotiated the rootwood contracts his wife now regrets. He believes dismantling the trade too quickly would destroy both forest conservation and wages. His old workshop can build ordinary ships again, but only if creditors accept a smaller return.
Place in the family
Married to Ysabet Vey. Their children are Edda Vey, Bram Vey and Siv Vey.
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.
The western crown began as a compact between forest wardens and three coastal guilds.
Ysabet opened the warmwood groves during the refugee winter of 661 and has spent twenty-three years defending the consequences.
Displaced northern households reached the western shore in boats with no recognized registry.