Thanks!
FWIW, on skimming through fiction for minor characters, I find one more lot of Volsaxi. And they're so minor I'm not sure if they help. No names, even.
What's said is:
"remember that near-riot half a season ago? Gyffur's lads got a bit
over-excited in the Shambleshur and were about to lynch some kid for looking
at them the wrong way before we stopped them?"
"Weavers. And pacifist weavers at that, from what I remember..."
This was being used as just another minor character with an acute case of thinking Kallyr's wonderful (usually for the wrong reasons). There's a lot of them, and most are more trouble than they're worth. This one made what she thought was a really nice wall-hanging as a thank-you present - sadly the chosen subject matter had a few political implications that she'd missed.
Yes, weavers, still living in WW in 1620! I think what I had in mind here was the sort of little old lady who refuses to leave her house in the face of extreme disaster - it's a British stereotype that appears in every major flood, bombing, and so on. The place is a wreck, half the houses are demolished, and some old dear appears offering a cup of tea. No, she won't abandon her house, at least, not until several nice young policemen (probably Vingans, in WW) have spent a lot of time persuading her, and the china and lace in the sittingroom is still spotless. She'll leave eventually, probably with a lot of fussing over some pet - small dog, cat, that sort of thing.
Charles, if you want to grab her and tell me more about her and her family, go ahead. The more I look, the more I see possibilities there.
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