Uncle Edran

The siblings' uncle — a gruff, weather-creased man who raised Kaerlin, Mira, and Thomel alongside their mother Alira in the family cottage near the Overlook. Edran was a pragmatist by inheritance and by need: the kind of Bellroot villager who calls Fray-talk "dangerous dreaming" and means it. He spent years dismissing the warnings Alira passed down from the Dreamers, and he spent his last conversation with Kaerlin admitting he had been wrong — giving her his blessing to continue what her parents had started. Strong but not gentle, slow to praise and slower to forgive, Edran is the household's anchor and its argument. The children loved him in spite of him, which is how he preferred it.