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Shan yos’Galan - Master Trader on Dutiful Passage

Birth[]

  • son of Anne Davis and Er Thom yos'Galan
    • Terran mother of old Gaelic ancestry, Liaden father
  • born 1357[1] on University, a Terran Planet [2]
  • Shan is an old Irish /Gaelic name
    • pronounced: Shan yos'Galan = Shahn yos' GAL-ahn (rhymes with talon)
  • lived with his unwed mother until she lifemated with his father
    • met his father when he was almost three years old
    • welcomed “Seen” into Clan Korval
  • at almost age three, he was progressing at twice his age on cognitive games
  • Born with dramliza talents, but trained with Healers so he could be a Trader. At age two, he could already see sparkles around people.

Physical Description[]

Conflict-of-honors

Shan & Priscilla

Shan is half-Terran, with silvery white hair, golden brown skin, silver eyes, taller and broader than Liadens

Priscilla’s first impression: "He was tall— a giant among Liadens. Silver eyes thickly fringed with black lashes looked directly into hers. Nor was he old— the frostcolored hair had misled her. His face was that of a man near her own age. But, Goddess, what a face! Big-nosed, jut-cheeked, wide-mouthed, with a broad forehead, triangular chin, and thin white brows set at a slant over the large eyes. Anything farther from the usual delicacy of Liaden features would be hard to find this side of the Yxtrang."[3]

"Shan yos’Galan—the gentle Korval; soft-hearted and foolish; a mere Healer, and no threat to the Department." [4]

Titles / Positions[]

  • A Healer and untrained dramliza
  • Master Trader
  • Master Pilot[5]
  • For many years (1383 - 1393) until Plan B (Korval’s strategy) went into motion, he was the Captain of Tree & Dragon flagship Dutiful Passage[6][7]
  • Thodelm of Line yos'Galan, Clan Korval
  • Speaker in Trust (Korval-pernard’i) for Korval after his father’s death 1383 until his sister Nova reached a suitable age, in 1385
  • Reincarnation of Lute? Vessel of Lute? see Trader's Leap
  • son, brother, cousin, lifemate
  • cha'kelet to Val Con (heart brother)
  • father to Padi by a contract marriage

his marriages[]

He is lifemate to Priscilla but had been contract-wed twice (splinter - (Shan's getting married - authors comments) - the first of Shan’s two contract marriages was not a particularly happy experience. He was sent too young, to a clan who keenly felt their heightened melant’i, in having gotten a child from Korval. ... Korval was in a undefined pickle at the time this marriage was made, and Er Thom needed a strong, new, alliance in a certain sector of the High Houses. Shan being at the time the only child of Korval of marriageable age, the duty fell to him.

  • one of his two contract marriages was to a daughter of Clan Lazmeln, with the child going to Lazmeln[8] This Lazmeln was Korval’s neighbor on Liad, according to The Gate that Locks the Tree

Master Trader[]

Epitome of excellence in the trading guild. From apprentice trader to full trader to master trader. Wears the amethyst ring.

"You've asked me to develop new outlets, negotiate partnerships, build viable routes, and earn us a profit!  Tell me, denubia, what is it that you think master traders do?" ​So.  Shan was off-planet even now, doing those things that master traders did, for the good of clan and kin. [9]

Notable Work[]

Shan collector card

Most Wanted! (excerpt Trader’s Leap)

Balance with Clan Plemia[]

  • balance owed, due to actions taken by Sav Rid Olanek of Clan Plemia, captain of the trade ship Daxflan. Clan Plemia's home is in Solcintra
  • Sav Rid hounded Shan's sister Nova to marry him and when she finally threw him out, he took his revenge by manipulating Shan / Dutiful Passage out of 40 Cantra (a lot of $$$) with word of a false mezzik-root medical delivery[13]
  • Sav Rid and his second mate harmed Priscilla, now crewing on Dutiful Passage, stole her possessions, hired her all unknowing "as a master over a cargo of contraband" only to abandon her and falsely accuse her when she suspected they were smuggling drugs [13]
  • His second mate Dagmar attempted to rape and murder Priscilla several times
  • On Theopholis, Dagmar again went after Priscilla, holding a knife to young Gordon Arbuthnot, cabin boy for Captain yos'Galan
  • Shan and the dea'Gauss worked a compassionate balance with Taam Olanek Delm Plemia in Theopholis, with Priscilla in attendance.
    • From Clan Plemia, twenty Cantra for the loss of the mezzik-root purchase, and Siv Rad immediately removed from ship Daxflan and sent to the Healers. Plemia to accept tutoring from Shan's retiring first-mate Kayzin Ne'Zame, who will work with Daxflan's first mate to revise ship procedures and work out a route.."[14]
  • Shan has been mocked for dealing such a terrible balance to Plemia [15]

Kin[]

See Korval Kin for complete list and ancestry charts

Books[]

  • Lord of the Dance (Pat Rin is retested as fist class pilot, Shan acts as Master Pilot) but this short story is not part of the official canon
  • Daav's Up Early: Ghost Ship Splinter

References[]

  1. Local Custom, ch 10
  2. Local Custom, ch 5
  3. Conflict of Honors chapter 6
  4. Trader’s Leap ch 6 Tarona Rusk Auxiliary Services
  5. I Dare, ch 43
  6. Conflict of Honors, ch 7
  7. Plan B, ch 5
  8. Carpe Diem, chapter 3
  9. Street Cred
  10. Intelligent Design
  11. Plan B
  12. Alliance of Equals
  13. 13.0 13.1 Conflict of Honors chapter 19
  14. Conflict of Honors, chapters 39-47
  15. Carpe Diem, winterfair
  16. Alliance of Equals
  17. Hidden Resources
  18. Plan B, ch 12
  19. Neogenesis
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