House Orven
House Orven holds the principality only while the Weight Court certifies its instruments.
A family in the present
House Orven holds the principality only while the Weight Court certifies its instruments. The family’s workshop is open to inspection, a custom it invokes proudly and sometimes evades by calling inconvenient objects heirlooms. The discovery of faulty treaty measures makes that distinction impossible to sustain.
Eight voices
Sovel Orven — master calibrator. Ivara Orven — lens grinder. Cael Orven — prince of relevar. Nessa Orven — workshop archivist. Thalen Orven — market magistrate. Rina Orven — apprentice assessor. Fenn Orven — lamp maker. Omi Orven — court messenger.
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.
Omi carries sealed results between workshops and keeps no family crest on the satchel.
Rina is learning to inspect stones without knowing their owners.
Fenn can solder a lamp seam without scorching the paper beneath it.
Thalen married Cael after arguing against him in a dispute over a widow’s faulty balance.
Ivara tests lenses by looking at ordinary cracks in her kitchen tiles.
Sovel certified the old heat measures and insists they were correct under the conditions used.