Korval Kin

This page offers a simple listing of active characters only. For a complete and historic list see Clan Korval

Clan Tree with Possible Spoilers

Matriarchs

• In one sense, the clan matriarch is The Tree, alive and continuously guiding the delms since its inception a millennium ago
• Cantra yos'Phelium is the ancient captain, "grandmother pirate" and clan co-founder with Tor An yos'Galan and her lover Jela (posthumously). Cantra died, thirty-one generations before Val Con yos'Phelium (see Crystal Soldier and Crystal Dragon)
• Chi yos’Phelium and Petrella yos’Galan are identical twin daughters of Larin yos'Galan and Kin Dal yos'Phelium — a love match — with genes from both Lines
  • Great Grandmothers to Talizea, Shindi, Mik, Syl Vor, Quin, Padi
  • Murdered. Prolly by The Department of the Interior
  • Featured in Local Custom and short stories Pilot of Korval, Due Diligence, A Choice of Weapons, and The Beggar King

yos'Phelium

• Chi yos'Phelium - Petrella's identical twin sister. Daughter of love match Larin yos'Galan and Kin Dal yos'Phelium, she has genes from both Lines
  • Died 1355 on Ganjir
• Kareen yos'Phelium - Chi’s daughter, Pat Rin's mother, not a pilot, a scholar, see also Surebleak Culture Study
• Pat Rin yos'Phelium - Kareen’s son, Quin's father, Luken's foster son, Natesa's lifemate, aka Boss Conrad of Surebleak
• Inas Bhar / Natesa - Pat Rin’s lifemate, sector judge of Juntavas
• Quin yos'Phelium - Pat Rin’s son, pilot, apprentice boss
• Daav yos'Phelium - Chi and Fer Gun pen'Uldra’s son. Er Thom’s cha'leket. Val Con and Theo’s father. Aelliana’s lifemate. Kamele's onagrata. Aka scholar Jen Sar Kiladi, planet Delgado
• Aelliana Caylon - Daav’s lifemate. Scholar Caylon. Captain of Ride the Luck
  • Deceased, “but not quite, it seems”
• Theo Waitley -- daughter of Scholar Jen Sar Kiladi / Daav yos'Phelium and Professor Kamele Waitley. Captain of Bechimo. quasi-clan: She hasn’t been “Seen” by the Delm for her own protection.
• Kamele Waitley — Theo's mother, Kiladi's lover, professor, assists Kareen on the Surebleak Culture Study
• Val Con yos'Phelium — Daav and Aelliana's son, fostered to Er Thom yos'Galan and Anne Davis. Foster brother, cousin, and cha'leket to Shan yos'Galan, foster brother and cousin to Nova yos'Galan and Anthora yos'Galan. Theo's half-brother. Miri’s lifemate, Talizea yos'Phelium’s father. Delm. Korval Himself.
• Miri Robertson -- clan sister by marriage to Val Con. Delmae Korval
  • Chock Robertson - Miri's father, a Terran on Surebleak
  • Katalina (Katy) Tayzin -- Miri's mother, Liaden, but born on Surebleak, descendant of Clan Erob /Rool Tiazan
  • Miri Tiazan - Miri's grandmother, Clan Erob, born on Lytaxin
• Talizea yos'Phelium - Val Con and Miri’s daughter, born on Surebleak SY 1393
• Kor Vid yos’Phelium - counted as distant cousin (Neogenesis & Accepting the Lance)
• Daaneka tey’Doshi - counted as distant cousin (Neogenesis & Accepting the Lance)
• Jen Sin yos'Phelium -- Pilot of Korval / Scout two centuries ago. See Tinsori Light
• Can Ith yos Phelium Isfelm (Ambient Conditions)
• Trader Chudith Isfelm (Trader's Leap) and her brother Jaimy

yos'Galan

• Petrella yos'Galan -- Chi's identical twin sister, born of Larin yos'Galan and Kin Dal yos'Phelium. Like her twin sister Chi yos'Phelium, she has genes from both Lines. Master Trader on Dutiful Passage
  • Died when Shan yos'Galan was about three years old, from delayed radiation poisoning, probably by The Department of the Interior
• Sae Zar yos'Galan - Petrella's eldest son. Master Trader on Dutiful Passage
  • Died protecting his Delm Chi yos'Phelium in Ganjir, SY 1355. Murdered, probably by The Department of the Interior
• Er Thom yos'Galan - Lifemate to Anne Davis. Father to Shan, Anthora, and Nova. Foster father to Val Con and cha'leket to Daav yos'Phelium. Master Trader and master pilot
  • Deceased; died of heartbreak one year after his lifemate Anne
• Anne Davis - Lifemate to Er Thom yos’Galan. Mother to Shan, Nova and Nova. Foster mother to Val Con. Aunt to Gordon Arbuthnot. Professor and musician. Dead; probably murdered by The Department of the Interior
  • Elizabeth Murphy - Anne's mother, First class, light transport to trade class AAA (deceased)
  • Ian Davis - Anne's father, engineer (deceased)
  • "the old gaffer" - Anne's grandfather, a finder / water witch: "He found other things, too," she said in accented, though clear, Liaden. "Lost sheep. Jewelry, once or twice. A missing child. But mostly he stuck to water." She shrugged. "If you listen to the talk on New Dublin, all the ancestors were —- fey, we say. It adds color to the family tree."
  • Richard Davis - Anne's brother, First-class pending Master Pilot, a master story teller The "Richard A. Davis Portmaster Aid Foundation" - Momson Cloaks ("Breath's Duty")
    • Rosie - Richard's intended
  • Gordy/ Gordon Arbuthnot — Anne Davis’ great-nephew. grandson of Richard and Rosie, "Foster-son of Shan and Priscilla, as well as Shan’s true-cousin, on the Terran side." graduated from cabin boy on Dutiful Passage to pilot (third class?) and associate trader. Full Trader status achieved
    • Morgan - Gordy's step-father
• Shan yos'Galan - Priscilla's lifemate. Er Thom and Anne's first-born child. Nova and Anthora's brother. Padi's father and Gordon's foster father. Val Con's cousin and cha'leket and foster brother. Master Trader and Master Pilot on Dutiful Passage, and a Healer
• Priscilla Delacroix y Mendoza - Shan’s lifemate, pilot on Dutiful Passage, and a dramliza
  • goddess sends them a child soon (Alliance of Equals)
• Padi yos'Galan - Shan’s daughter and heir, apprentice trader, pilot, comes the dragon dramliza at age 17; achieves Full Trader garnet before eighteenth nameday
  • Vestin yos'Thomaz Clan Ebrim - Padi's mother (by contract)
• Nova yos'Galan - Er Thom and Ann's daughter, Shan and Anthora's sister, Syl Vor's mother, Val Con's cousin/foster-sister, First Speaker, pilot, Boss Conrad’s executive assistant “Boss Nova”, etc.
• Syl Vor - Nova’s son, about 11 years old at the Rock, during Plan B (Korval’s strategy) in Hidden Resources
  • Kezzi of The Bedel - Syl Vor’s foster sister, same age roughly
• Anthora yos'Galan - Er Thom and Ann's daughter, Shan’s younger sister, Val Con's cousin / foster sister, Ren Zel's lifemate, Shindi and Mik's mother, pilot, a powerful dramliza
• Ren Zel dea'Judan - lifemate to Anthora, pilot on Dutiful Passage, a powerful dramliza
  • they recently conceived a child (Neogenesis)
• Shindi yos'Galan - Anthora's toddler daughter, Mik's twin, born SY 1392
• Mik yos'Galan - Anthora's toddler son, Shindi's twin

bel'Tarda

It's not clear how Line bel'Tarda is "biologically" related to yos'Phelium or yos'Galan, if at all, but the story of how Line bel’Tarda joined with Korval is told in Heirloom

• Luken bel'Tarda, Pat Rin’s foster father
• Luken’s daughter, Danise bel’Tarda

Extended Kin

Adopted or Seen into the extended clan

• The Tree — whom clan founder M-Jela first claimed as close kin
• Gordy / Gordon Arbuthnot — Anne Davis’ great-nephew. "Gordy Arbuthnot, foster-son of Shan and Priscilla, as well as Shan’s true-cousin, on the Terran side." (see also Terra) . Grandson of Richard Davis, Anne’s brother.
• Theo Waitley - genetic kin, half-Terran, born on Delgado, daughter of Daav yos'Phelium and Kamele Waitley, but not "Seen" for her protection. Tree sees her as a white dragon.
• Kamele Waitley - Jen Sar Kiladi’s lover, Theo’s mother, Lady Kareen’s colleague in researxh
• Tocohl Lorlin - AI daughter of Korval, via Jeeves
• Jeeves - AI, pledged service to the boy, Val Con

excerpt Intelligent Design

• Angela Lizardi "Liz" - foster mother to adolescent Miri Robertson. Talizea is named after Liz.
• Rys Newman of The Bedel - Val Con’s adopted brother
• Kezzi of the Bedel — Syl Vor yos'Galan’s adopted sister
• Yulie Shaper — Tree Kin, neighbor, planted a tree, received a pod
• Clutch Turtles Edger, Sheather, etc. - adopted Val Con and Miri

Rys Lin, Val Con’s brother

• Hakan Meltz - “seen” by Val Con, a friend on planet Vandar

“My decision to See Hakan Meltz. At the time, I stood as thodelm of yos'Phelium, so it was not a thing done lightly. And yos'Phelium abandons a brother even less readily than Korval relinquishes a child."

• Nelirikk — Lieutenant Nelirikk nor'Phelium, “Beautiful” -Aide to Captain Miri Robertson
• Diglon & Hazenthull nor'Phelium - Korval House Guard
• Clan Erob -- on planet Lytaxin, a Liaden world. Cantra’s ancient ally in escaping the Sheriekas and finding the Liaden universe. Korval breeds with Line Tiazan of Clan Erob every third generation, so they are distant cousins