Cord

Cord is an extramuros artisan—practical, technically skilled, and direct—introduced when she reconnects with her sib Fraa Erasmas outside the Concent of Saunt Edhar during an Apert. She is found at an old river‑served metalworks compound and later enters the grounds to see the clock from within and accompany Erasmas to winding.

First Appearance and Context

• Met by Erasmas and a peer in the town outside the walls during an Apert, after a stop at his former home. Cord is located at an ancient, steel‑framed machine hall built over a canal slip not far from the Century Gate. She later visits inside to observe the upper works and to be present around the time of Provener.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Machinist: Operates a large five‑axis electrical‑discharge mill, using a syntactic controller to carve complex, antler‑like shapes from solid metal. In one instance, she produces a precision part and hands it off to an Ita customer.
• Visitor and observer: Accompanies Erasmas up through the tower to the roof, examining the mechanism and instruments of the Mynster and the Starhenge. She compares design choices, voices practical critiques of wear‑prone linkages, and asks pointed questions about the rules governing Ita contact and device usage.
• Practical helper: On encountering avout who have been roughed up outside the walls, she calmly applies first‑aid basics (gloves, improvised nasal plugs) and assists others in getting them presentable for communal duties around Provener.

Relationships

• Fraa Erasmas: Her younger sib; they meet during Apert, visit her workplace, and then tour the clockworks together from within the tower and on the roof.
• Fraa Jesry: Meets him alongside Erasmas; he shares her curiosity about her machinery.
• Fraa Lio and Fraa Arsibalt: She helps tend to their injuries after an attack extramuros.
• Suur Ala: Brief, appraising exchange while administering first aid; mutual respect is evident.
• Ita: Professional contact at her shop; she also observes Ita at work on the tower and questions the community’s rules about interacting with them.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Appearance and bearing: Short‑cropped hair; sturdy forearms; a solid, deliberate stance. She wears a tool‑harness with ranked pockets and habitually keeps a smaller vest of tools even when away from the shop.
• Tools and skill: Moves confidently among heavy machines; handles measurement readouts and parametric motions; carries small instruments (folding scissors, gloves). She wears a pocket‑watch on a fluid titanium chain she cut as a journeyman piece.
• Temperament: Direct, curious, and pragmatic; comfortable at heights and fascinated by mechanisms. She questions received explanations and thinks in terms of reliability, maintenance burden, and what a design is “really for.”

Current Status/Location

• Lives and works extramuros at a sprawling metalworks compound reached by a canal slip near the Century Gate. During the same Apert in which she meets Erasmas, she tours the tower and roof instruments, helps in practical moments around Provener, and plans to meet him again later in the week.