Fraa Jesry

First Appearance and Context

Jesry is introduced among the Tenners at the Concent of Saunt Edhar during the open days of Apert, taking part in Provener and early duties around the Mynster. He accompanies a peer outside the walls during the opening and returns to routine work inside the concent.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Serves on the clock‑winding team in the Mynster and contributes practical calculations described as orbital mechanics for Fraa Orolo.
• During the post‑Apert selection rite of Eliger, his name is called and he is inducted into the Edharian Chapter.
• Subsequently, he is reported working with Orolo on naked‑eye observations from the meadow.
• Present during a Refectory discussion on telescope orientation and polar orbits; interjects "Compass needles?" when peers list polar convergences, and later questions Barb about conic sections.
• Joins a refectory dialog about worrying and plausibility, arguing that opening the door to incoherent hypotheticals yields a profusion of equally invalid scenarios the mind rejects; he also offers precise combinatorial corrections during the exchange.
• Before the starhenge was closed, Orolo set him to compute orbital parameters from givens extracted to photomnemonic tablets; Jesry was not shown the source images. From memory afterward, he inferred the targets were in Arbre‑centered orbits and probably more than one object.
• In collaboration with a peer, proposes a practical approach to the all‑sky records from Clesthyra's Eye: time successive passes of polar‑orbiting "birds" to build a working census, distinguishing higher from lower orbits by their longer or shorter periods.
• Subsequent measurements confirm and refine his forecast: when analyzing time‑exposure streaks, the angular separation characteristic of a given "bird" remains constant from orbit to orbit, while different objects present different angles consistent with their periods; this guides the drafting of a preliminary census from a single clear night, later cross‑checked against additional nights.
• Separately surveys Decennial deliveries to see who engaged with Fraa Paphlagon's writings beyond the walls; identifies Suur Aculoä at Baritoe (a Unarian, Latter Evenedrician) as a notable admirer, speculating that one of her former fids may now hold influence. Notes that Tulia is reviewing Aculoä’s works.
• Holds a quiet meadow discussion with Tulia and a peer about a well‑connected Sæcular with mathic ties; frames what they "are allowed to know" in terms of Annual/Decennial summaries and raises possibilities involving solar activity and the polycosm.
• Proposes shifting sensitive conversations out of public view and later joins a clandestine session in the sub‑cellar of Shuf’s Dowment to use a tablet for direct observations; with a peer, examines the sun’s disk and looks for auroral or flare activity but sees nothing clearly unusual.
• When discovery becomes likely, helps conceal the tablet by burying it beneath the sub‑cellar floor.

Relationships

• Close peer of Fraa Erasmas; they share winding duty and extramuros experience and move in the same cohort.
• Regular teammate with Lio and Arsibalt on the winding crew; he is regarded within the cohort as one of the standouts who fit the Edharians well.
• Works closely with Orolo as a student–assistant on calculations; Orolo deliberately shielded him and others from sensitive inputs while directing the work.
• Tense dynamic with Suur Ala after she tracks activity to Shuf’s Dowment; he attempts to slip away and is recognized before fleeing.
• Ongoing collaboration with Tulia in assessing outside scholarship and practical hypotheses; coordinates discreetly with Arsibalt, who signals meetings and monitors risks.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Physically capable from winding work; direct, analytical, and practically minded in conversation. He often begins as a quiet observer, then steps in with succinct, skeptical corrections (e.g., combinatorial counts), and may turn sharp when pressed. He coined “the creature with two backs” to describe Ala and Tulia’s habit of debriefing lectures together. In clandestine work he shows excitement with new instruments and uneven stealth discipline (taking direct routes, speaking too loudly), but he is quick to form testable hypotheses and to act when circumstances change.

Current Status/Location

Active at Saunt Edhar; newly inducted into the Edharian Chapter and engaged in observational and computational work alongside Orolo. After a confrontation near Shuf’s Dowment, he knows their activity has been noticed; the tablet used for observations is buried beneath the sub‑cellar.