Losam Ferrante
The man who owns Onda’s port · rents it to Sai · worried about his beds
At a Glance
- Role
- Owns Onda’s port. Rents his warehouse and berths to House Sai, and is worried about his oyster beds
- Allegiance
- His own family. Paid by Sai; Rosamund Kestrel signs for the casks
- Description
- Short, older than he looks from the quay, working hands, salt-cracked knuckles, mud to the knee on the beds, rings and coat off on the mud and on in company
- Mannerisms
- Turns a ring his fingers still aren’t used to. Wipes his hands on his shirt before he shakes. Stands with his weight back, the way you stand on mud
- Tell
- Answers a hard question with a question about the tide
- Found at
- The beds at the bottom of the tide, at dawn, alone · the house on the quay (Delta’s supper) · the oyster house
- Statline
- Does not fight. Noble (MM, CR 1/8) if one is ever needed
Voice & Manner
Two modes. On the mud he is easy and plain and talks in oyster terms. In company he is stiff: he borrows Delta’s phrases (“as my wife says”) and lets silences run. When the talk turns to money he names a price too quickly, because a deal is the one kind of talk he is comfortable in. Short sentences in both modes, per The Beds at Dawn.
Voice anchor: a West Country fisherman. Low, slow, the dock never sanded off.
Line to come — Jack’s.
Money
New money. He is good at making it and bad at being rich. He takes any deal that pays, and he keeps buying mud because it is the only thing he knows how to buy. Delta spends it in public; Champ spends it on the gig. The rings are a costume.
Wants · Needs · Has
- Wants. The pale bed explained and stopped.
- Needs. The beds earning. Oysters and pearls are the business; everything else is extra money.
- Has. The port: berths, quay, the oyster house, the mudflat warehouse. Money. Champ’s racing gig, for a later session. Facts: Sai pays him for the warehouse and the berths; the pale bed’s history (some months, relaid, water tasted). Not sole-source — Kestrel’s name also comes through Oswin Tuck.
Standing
- Toward Delta. Lets her speak for the family in public.
- Toward Dita. Does not know how she has conducted herself. That is the party’s session 3 hold on her, and why she keeps them from him.
- Toward Champ. Pays for him.
- Toward Haxami. Set by the Deception roll in The Beds at Dawn: a useful clerk, or a man who is not a clerk and has been filed.
- Toward Thor and Wat Fenner. Both worked his warehouse crew.
- Toward Sai. A good customer, as far as he knows.
Behind the screen
He rents the warehouse and berths to Sai and thinks nothing is wrong. What Sai pays him to store is what is killing his beds: the pale bed is the casks, and he has not connected the two. The pale bed’s shells are empty — no pearls.
When he learns what the casks carry, it lands as a business loss first, then anger. That is why he wants off the route when the party reach him after session 4.
In a Fight
He does not want one. He leaves, and pays someone.
Still open
- His sample line.
- The shape of his anger when he learns.