# Joss Maren

Joss Maren is the island’s fisher courier. Reads tide stones.

Character · Fictional · Established

Stable ID: `island-v2-joss` · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [Island Explorer V2](/field-guide/collections/island-v2/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/island-v2-joss/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/island-v2-joss/record.json)

## At a glance

- patient, funny, tide-aware

## Appearances

- [Island Explorer V2](/island-v2/) (context: [Island Explorer V2](/field-guide/collections/island-v2/))

## Relationships

- [Iona Keel](/field-guide/entities/island-v2-iona/): brings Iona cleaner water (Established)

- [Ren Ilya](/field-guide/entities/island-v2-ren/): warns Ren about late crates (Established)

## Sources

- [Island Explorer V2](/island-v2/index.html) (revision sha256:ff94e0985e149811592f569a00a89216b51b6a2155a38597d3e99f4a0f8e38df)

- [world-seed.js](/island-v2/src/app/world-seed.js) (revision sha256:ee7a1696f639389cdb8389b2db715c874797b717fd4a8c34ebaa5a77cf9aa6bd)

## Portrait

![Joss Maren source-derived portrait.](/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-world-models-island-v2-joss-1200.webp)

Faithful procedural reconstruction of the named source renderer/equations; this is a reusable source-derived capture, not a direct original-model capture.

[Download original](/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-world-models-island-v2-joss.png) · [Source-derived IslandLab procedural renderer](/island-v2/src/characters/character-renderer.js) · v1 · SHA-256: `5290ae373285fa35bdc1f739be688f5635e45319e8ab0c1131a24fafea2afad3`