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Yazad

Known facts

came-to-weswara-as-missionaryYazad tells the others that he came to live among the Weswarans ten years ago and has committed to remain among them for the rest of his life — a Zoroastrian missionary who has been quietly settled outside Wellbury in a community he calls the Preserve.STD:FWH:Ch 15
loves-sailing-for-its-own-sakeYazad was taken by the Hordamen because he had been out alone on a small ship purely for the pleasure of sailing — a pursuit Ealstan finds incomprehensible. Coming from a country of hills and desert northeast of Persia, Yazad had never seen the open ocean until reaching Weswara, and learned to sail simply because he wanted to.STD:FWH:Ch 15

STD:FWH:Ch 15 Walked off the longship into Stenford's company already cheerful, thanks each of his rescuers in turn, identifies the scorched English letters as foreign script but not Greek, and offers the Preserve as the night's safe house.
STD:FWH:Ch 16 Ushers the party up to his hut, dispenses hay-pallet hospitality, and floats a plan to prank his household by pretending to have been here all along.
STD:FWH:Ch 17 Brings news of the strangers who visited the reeve overnight and fetches Thokk in from the road so John can hear her account of a beardless red-haired traveller.
STD:FWH:Ch 18 Volunteers his standing apple-delivery run as a way to walk Ealstan and party past the Wellbury guards unnoticed, and crows at Thokk for praising Ahura Mazda by criticising Woden.
STD:FWH:Ch 19 Walks his apple-delivery route through the gate, chats up the hearthmen with cheerful talk of Ahura Mazda, hands Runian an apple-wood staff reminiscent of a magi's, and refuses to leave the town without giving each of them a hug.
STD:FWH:Ch 23 Throws open the preserve door with his usual exuberance, serves stewed apples to the rescued party, and settles onto a stool next to a withdrawn John for a quiet hearth-side talk — concludes the outlander is a traveller from the future, and reframes John's self-disgust as the perspective of a man whose ordinary knowledge happens to be other people's miracle.

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