Rina Orven
Rina is learning to inspect stones without knowing their owners.
The person
Rina is learning to inspect stones without knowing their owners. She covers seals with wax so rank cannot influence the result. Her first blind test failed her grandfather’s oldest instrument. She has not told him which stone it was, giving him a chance to agree with the method before defending the object.
Place in the family
A child of Cael Orven and Thalen Orven; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Orven.
Thalen married Cael after arguing against him in a dispute over a widow’s faulty balance.
House Orven holds the principality only while the Weight Court certifies its instruments.
Cael inherited a country small enough to cross in a long day and a standard used across a continent.
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.