Eirik Rusk
Eirik married Anja after guiding her rescue crew through ice that neither of them could see.
The person
Eirik married Anja after guiding her rescue crew through ice that neither of them could see. He distrusts military maps because they omit places where a boat can shelter a child. He is charting the undercut banks of Hornbeambeck River and has found fresh tool marks at a supposedly natural thaw point.
Place in the family
Married to Anja Rusk. Their children are Vessa Rusk, Dain Rusk and Kelda Rusk.
Kelda tends the foxglove garden and measures doses more carefully than her cousins measure political loyalties.
Dain recruits former toll smugglers because they know paths official patrols ignore.
Vessa reads weather records as incomplete testimony, not prophecy.
The Rusks earned the marchwardenship by maintaining winter shelters, not by possessing the largest estate.
Anja governs through rescue obligations rather than parade orders.
Opposing patrols shared a stranded boat after their common ice crossing failed.