Perrin Tern
Perrin learned to repair clock escapements using scrap from confiscated estate machinery.
The person
Perrin learned to repair clock escapements using scrap from confiscated estate machinery. He wants to show that the gate opens before the gears turn. To do so he needs a measuring stone calibrated outside the republic. Accepting help from Relevar could look like admitting the country’s founding engineers were wrong.
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.
Sol built the insulated cabinet needed to recreate northern conditions without drawing heat from a living person.
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.