Trout

Physical Description: He is scruffy with untidy brown hair, usually pushed back on his head. He wears glasses, or "lenses," over his vague blue eyes. He's fairly pale with freckles, since he's usually in his workshop, and his hands are always filthy, covered in burn marks and scars.

Trout, 15 or 16 years old, attended the College of Mithates, mostly working on inventions in his workshop. For the majority of the first book, does not believe in chantment. There was an explosion in his workshop about a year before he met Calwyn that hurt his ears. He can't hear anything above the normal voice range of a human (excluding singing). Therefore, he can't hear the chantments of Seeming.

When Calwyn first meets Trout, he is slightly absent-minded, very analytical, and only concerned about his studies at the College. He gets dragged out of Merithuros when Samis attacks, and reluctantly joins Darrow and Calwyn on their quest to stop Samis. After a great storm drives them off course, Trout learns to work together with Tonno. He begins to think about what his work in Mithates meant, after experiencing fighting, and if he would be able to go back, knowing the consequences of his hard work. After that, he warms up to the crew and accepts his fate, even looking forward to the rest of the journey. In the remaining stories, Trout, along with Tonno, keeps the story grounded.