Dain Rusk
Dain recruits former toll smugglers because they know paths official patrols ignore.
The person
Dain recruits former toll smugglers because they know paths official patrols ignore. His grandmother approves the rescues but objects to paying the recruits in unrecorded grain. He has offered to keep a public ledger of illegal routes, which would save travelers and expose the people who trusted him.
Place in the family
A child of Anja Rusk and Eirik Rusk; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Rusk.
Eirik married Anja after guiding her rescue crew through ice that neither of them could see.
The Rusks earned the marchwardenship by maintaining winter shelters, not by possessing the largest estate.
Anja governs through rescue obligations rather than parade orders.
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.