Vant is a Knorth randon candidate. He is the five of Brier Iron-thorn's ten-command that encounters Jame in the wilderness in Seeker's Mask, and then at Tentir, when Jame becomes ten-commander and Brier is pushed down to five, Vant moves over to command another ten. He is the most senior Knorth ten-commander after Jame and takes over much of the running of the barracks from her, at first without asking Jame for her input; later she makes him consult her. Greshan sired a daughter on a Kendar girl, who was Vant's grandmother. That daughter, Vant's mother, died at the Battle of the Cataracts.