Saunt Cartas

First Appearance and Context

Saunt Cartas is invoked by Fraa Orolo in a kitchen conversation, who urges study of her Saeculum (Treatise) in Old Orth, noting that excerpted translations can soften key passages.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Author of a foundational framing of the Mathic World as a counterbalance to the Saecular Power, as presented in her Saeculum.
• In the Discipline, Cartas is cited as enumerating four types of liaison and forbidding all of them, reflecting an early strict stance on relationships within maths. Later codifications differ on how many types are sanctioned.

Relationships

• Referenced and explicated by Fraa Orolo, who recommends consulting her work in Old Orth.

Descriptions/Characteristics

In the Hylaean Way exhibits, a statue depicts Saunt Cartas cradling a few singed and tattered books in one arm, looking back over her shoulder as if beckoning visitors toward a narrow exit. Frescoes nearby show the Sack of Baz and the burning of the library. Beyond that exit lies a high, bare, stone-walled chamber intended to symbolize the retreat to the maths and the dawn of the Old Mathic Age.

Current Status/Location

A historical figure known via texts. Her Saeculum continues to circulate in the community, and her positions on liaisons are quoted in in‑world references to the Discipline.