Venfaldri Gar

Species: Luvendi

TVC 01/1 A Luvendi, unusual in appearance (was taller and paler than most). Dressed in robes, long-fingered hands. Wasn't cruel, like Lan. Was only the vice-overseer, an assistant of sorts to Venfirdri Lan, who had once run many mines on High Tortuga. Lan was cruel, and Gar always did his best to intervene when Lan’s actions might result in an uprising.

TVC 01/4 From planet Luvendan, watching the endless waves and listening to the hiss of the great beasts that circled their submerged homes. He had feared the Essekan all his life, and had fled Luvendan as soon as he had reached his majority. Barnabas' voice filled him with the same primal fear; that nothing he could do would protect him. There would be teeth and claws and the crushing black… This human was like the Essekan, and not only in its raw power—how could it do these things?—but in the fact that Gar knew he could not bargain with it.

TVC 01/6 For the first time in many years, Gar let himself wonder what his grandfather would have thought of who he’d become. The male had always been supportive of Gar’s studies and his efforts to get off Luvendan.He had died several years before Gar reached his majority, which had simplified things. Without him there, Gar never went back to visit. There was no one there he cared to see, and he imagined they felt the same way. Ambition was frowned upon on Luvendan. The ambitious few left, giving aliens a rather skewed perception of the Luvendi as a whole. The Luvendi out and about in the universe did not answer to their government and had no desire to go back or enrich their planet.

TVC 01/16 . He hated any type of insect. He always had. Someone had brought spiders to Luvendi aboard a ship, and they’d spread through the towers with unnatural speed,