Darrow's cautious elder brother, a Lambda driller with a wife and young twins.
Kieran is Darrow's brother, three years his elder, a driller of the Lambda crew who counsels the same patience their uncle does. As a boy he bawled at their father's hanging while Darrow refused to cry. Now a family man, he is married to Diona and father to three-year-old twins Reagan and Iro.
He helps pull Darrow off Narol when the two come to blows at the Laureltide feast, and jokes easily with cousin Loran, embodying the settled, careful life Darrow chafes against.
Three years older than Darrow, red-haired in the manner of the clan; a settled family man's bearing.
Darrow's elder brother; a Lambda driller and family man.