The oldest liveship on the Rain Wild River, adapted over generations to the river's particular demands into something quite different from the sea-going liveships of Bingtown. Tarman's sentience is quieter and less demonstrative than Vivacia's or Paragon's but no less real, and his connection to the river and to Leftrin gives him a distinctive presence among the sequence's living ships. His true nature and history are among the Rain Wild Chronicles' more carefully revealed discoveries.