Yulassetar Crade

Overview

Yulassetar Crade, often called "Yul", is an extramuros wilderness guide and cousin of Ganelial Crade. Based around the city of Norslof, he is experienced at leading trips into mountains and deep-cold country. After assisting Fraa Orolo with winter gear in town, he encounters the traveling company and decides to accompany them north, quickly becoming a key fixer and field cook alongside Cord, Sammann, and Fraa Erasmas.

Appearance and Traits

• A big, bearded man who arrives in a mud-splattered fetch with a wooden cabin on its back; he can deploy a fold-out counter and stove to serve hot drinks and meals.
• Calm, sociable storyteller with a guide's habit of making new companions feel at ease; shifts readily from anecdotes to practical problem-solving.
• Prefers robust, understandable praxis: builds and tunes his own burners from scavenged parts and favors gear that can be repaired in the field.
• Curious about geology and deep time; keeps fossils and books at home and describes deducing the great age of the world from years spent as a river guide watching canyon walls.

Roles and Actions

• Outfits travelers for the far north: sources affordable suitsacks and shows how to modify or replace gear with inexpensive items from non-specialty shops; offers to supply gaps from his own stock.
• Solves camp logistics: cooks large meals from a portable kitchen, advises on fuel and melting snow for water, and teaches practical driving and winter-travel habits.
• Vehicle preparation: helps fit studded winter tires and swap lubricants and coolants to low-temperature formulations; consolidates supplies into his cabin-fetch for the push toward the sledge port.
• Prior contact with Orolo: according to his cousin's account, hosted Orolo overnight in the back of his fetch, advised him on clothing, obtained a used suitsack, and helped him catch a northbound drummon.
• Makes last-minute substitutions on the sledge train near the border: digs out his fetch during a snowstorm and supplies an old, inconspicuous military backpack for Erasmas, topping it up with food, spare clothes, and strapping on snowshoes as contingency gear.

Relationships

• Ganelial Crade: first cousin; the two share similar tastes in vehicles and weapons despite religious differences. Ganelial calls Yul an apostate from their ark.
• Cord: the two quickly fall into an easy partnership marked by sharp, playful banter and close collaboration on mechanical tasks; they become a couple during preparations to head north.
• Fraa Erasmas and Sammann: traveling companions who rely on Yul's practical knowledge; Yul ferries Erasmas on errands through city traffic and adapts to Sammann's route research.
• Fraa Orolo: previously assisted Orolo with cold-weather outfitting and onward transport from Norslof.

Current Status

Accompanies the company on the main sledge train toward the port. According to the plan set among the group, Yul will continue in the fetches with Cord and the Crades to drive south into milder country and then west toward Mahsht, intending to rendezvous with Erasmas, who takes a separate route by sea. He is not part of Erasmas's short smuggler hop around the port.