Jori Tern
Jori inspects channels from a narrow punt with a measuring pole worn smooth at the grip.
The person
Jori inspects channels from a narrow punt with a measuring pole worn smooth at the grip. He found the eleven-minute opening and initially blamed a careless apprentice. After watching the mechanism move by itself, he apologized in the public square. He now insists witnesses include people who depend on the downstream flow.
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.
Hessa organized the mill shifts that kept the strike kitchens supplied.
House Tern is a family, not a legal dynasty: Mara holds an elected office and her children inherit no seat.
Inspectors refused private gate orders and secured joint public inspections.
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.