Fraa Lio

First Appearance and Context

Fraa Lio is introduced as a peer within a Decenarian math alongside Fraa Erasmas, seen in communal settings and in the Mynster during rites leading up to and including Apert. He has been selected for the four‑person winding team that tends the great clock at Provener.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Serves on the clock‑winding team during Provener, pushing one of the capstan poles alongside peers such as Fraa Jesry.
• Carries out practical chores around the concent; after a missed winding and a later meadow‑fire mishap with Jesry, he accepted penances assigned by the Warden Regulant.
• Participates in instruction under senior teachers; during a rigorous review of the iconographies led by Grandsuur Tamura, he offered succinct observations noted by the class.
• During the present opening, he and Fraa Arsibalt were attacked outside the walls by a group that circled them in a vehicle; Lio sustained visible injuries and later answered questions from a warden before returning to help with Provener.

Relationships

• Long‑standing peer of Fraa Erasmas within the Tenners; they work together on duties and ceremonies.
• Frequent collaborator with Fraa Jesry on routine tasks and the winding team.
• Teammate and companion of Fraa Arsibalt; the two were set upon together while walking extramuros and then supported each other through the subsequent rite and questioning.
• Answerable to the Warden Regulant for penance when communal duties are mishandled; interviewed by a warden after the extramuros attack.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Lio is solidly built and sometimes nicknamed "Thistlehead." He is physically demonstrative—capable of unbalancing a hooded peer with a deft tug—and quick to steady a friend when needed. He habitually reaches for terms from Vale-lore ("vlor") to frame situations, though he judged that such lore proved “useless” in the face of the street attack. After that assault, he bore a puffy, bleeding lip and bruising around one eye yet still pushed hard at Provener. He can slip into Fluccish when speaking in mixed company.

Current Status/Location

Active among the Tenners in a Decenarian math. Present in the Mynster during the current opening and engaged in communal duties including clock winding and lessons; recovering from minor injuries sustained outside the walls.