Ronn

Core role: Shipwright's apprentice. The youngest aboard.

The reckless version of curiosity — where Kael's curiosity is quiet observation and thought, Ronn's is reaching out to touch. Laughs when happy, yells when scared, swears when angry. The most emotionally exposed person on the ship.

Not sharp, but not stupid. Lacks experience, but has a natural intuition for the physical world — wood grain, metal hardness, the direction of force, structural weak points. Best on the ship at this.

Loyalty is learned, not innate. Unlike Castor's instinctive protectiveness, Ronn's loyalty builds one experience at a time.