Count Cobley

Recurring Trade-Union figure in the trade and diplomatic threads — sends envoys, exchanges letters with the Norton court, and turns up in the middle-game when Lorist's snow-salt and steel trade pulls Trade-Union cities into the conversation.

A Trade-Union grandee whose family holds a stretch of the central plain. He surfaces episodically in the trade and diplomatic threads of the story's middle stretch — sending envoys and exchanging letters with the Norton court as Lorist's snow-salt and steel pull Trade-Union cities into the conversation.