House Sere
The Sere family supplies pilots and signal officers to the League of Lanterns.
A family in the present
The Sere family supplies pilots and signal officers to the League of Lanterns. Its reputation rests on answering distress calls, and its greatest disgrace is a deliberate failure to do so. The current convener inherited both an efficient fleet and a culture of obedience that conceals who gave an order.
Eight voices
Vaelor Sere — retired fleet admiral. Essra Sere — signal glassmaker. Ilyra Sere — admiral-convener. Ossa Sere — ceramic heat engineer. Maerin Sere — harbor physician. Lin Sere — salvage advocate. Ruel Sere — beacon keeper. Sena Sere — ropewalk apprentice.
The family is shown as three generations. Birth years use the Hearth Reckoning; the present year is 684. Marriage joins households without erasing the married partner’s earlier life.
Sena marks ropes with colored threads identifying the crews who made them.
Ruel took the Leekowglen posting after officers mocked it as a punishment.
Lin represents families contesting the legal disappearance of their relatives.
Essra designed mirror shutters that can be operated by a single exhausted keeper.
Ilyra won the convenership by reopening winter supply routes.
Vaelor signed the order that darkened the towers, claiming the ports could not feed more arrivals.