The Comyn
The Comyn are the main seven laran-gifted families of Darkover, the descendants of human-chieri pairings. The Comyn learn to use native matrix stones to help focus and strengthen their laran powers to duplicate and sometimes surpass science-based technology. Each Comyn family controls a domain, but strategic inter-marriage and feudal land issues result in fluctuating domain borders. Each Comyn family also possesses a Gift -- a family-specific laran power. Enumerating these Gifts accurately is difficult, as the books are inconsistent in their distribution. For example, the Gift of precognition is variously assigned to Hastur, Alton, Aldaran, and Ridenow. The seven families include:
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