Halden Rusk
Halden lost three fingers opening a frozen shelter door and makes strangers examine the latch before entering his house.
The person
Halden lost three fingers opening a frozen shelter door and makes strangers examine the latch before entering his house. He favors dismantling the engines because he remembers ordinary winters, but memory has simplified the hunger that accompanied them. His granddaughter Vessa uses his own old ledgers to challenge the certainty of his recollections.
Place in the family
Their children are Anja Rusk and Torren Rusk. Family authority does not settle the disagreement described above.
Anja governs through rescue obligations rather than parade orders.
Torren trains soldiers to cut sled runners before he lets them carry swords.
The Rusks earned the marchwardenship by maintaining winter shelters, not by possessing the largest estate.
Ragna keeps the names of families supplied during every storm in a cloth ledger repaired with mismatched thread.
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.