Parru

Parru is Asalon the Fair's nephew, offered to Minalan (operating as Mirkandar) to help with the Farise operation:

My nephew Parru has been assisting me and learning the business for the last few years. I can spare him for a few days. He's Talented, as well. Bright young man.

Description: "a polite young man, the Talented one who had gotten his rajira and had apprenticed with a commercial mage in the nice part of town. Very intelligent, far more serious than his uncle, and seemed determined to impress Ruderal and myself with his breadth of arcane knowledge."

Furnishes Minalan's Bluestem mansion, spreads word of the new Narasi mage through local vendors, and provides invaluable intelligence on neighborhoods, magical houses, and the Censorate. At the marketplace stunt he bangs a brass bell to draw a crowd, tosses tokens, and praises Minalan's pitch: "Well done, Master Mirkandar!" Becomes ice-distribution manager, excelling at referral-conversion — "producing nearly twice as many referrals to the main floor as Rudy."

Warns against House Obray ("Over in Tirza. A small firm, admittedly, only four practicing adepts. But they've dominated the ice trade in Farise for two centuries") and names their backer Issek and Andimil. Educates Minalan on the "Restorationalists." Joins war-council strategy sessions; scries counterfeit ice blocks. Climax: Minalan sends him with Ruderal and Atopol to retaliate against Adept Jamanus — they encase Jamanus's entire house in a foot of ice with a pointed wizard-hat cone at the top. Will inherit the ice business; nephew of Asalon the Fair. "quite skilled at his spellcraft, for someone without the benefits of irionite. A lot more ambition than Ruderal did, and he had a clever mind."