Sammann

First Appearance and Context

During an Apert day, activity around the concent’s workshops and clockworks brings Sammann’s name into view. In Cord’s industrial machine hall near the river, an Ita client collects an intricately machined component; later, while viewing the clockwork above the Mynster, Cord remarks that the bone‑like levers there remind her of the part she made for “Sammann” that morning. A rooftop all‑sky recording later shows the same Ita technician at the Pinnacle, confirming the identification as Sammann.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

Sammann is associated with the Ita, who handle practical, technical subsystems at the concent.

• Optics upkeep on the roof: He is observed ascending the Pinnacle to clean and polish the zenith mirror and the lens of Clesthyra’s Eye, using spray and cloth during a midday visit.
• Dust‑jacket incident: After cleaning, he retrieves a paper dust jacket that had blown near the Eye, examines it, peers into the lens, and briefly tests the Eye’s access cover to the tablet slot before folding the jacket and pocketing it, then departing. The account records no immediate consequences beyond his departure.
• Midday routine: On many days he comes at mid‑day, hangs a shoulder bag from a stone knob on the parapet, cleans the optics, and then eats his lunch on the parapet; he sometimes reads during this break.
• Second tablet seen: On a later visit he arrives carrying a dust jacket enclosing another tablet, sets it openly on the parapet while he eats, and departs with it.
• Sun‑watching with protective goggles: Subsequently he wears heavy arc‑shielding goggles and, while eating, stares directly at the sun on bright days—behavior consistent with deliberate solar observation.
• Follow‑up interpretation: After independent solar observations with a similar tablet found nothing unusual visible to the observers (no notable sunspots or flares by their lights), the initial hypothesis tying Sammann’s goggled sun‑watching to abnormal solar activity was tentatively set aside.

Relationships

• Cord: She fabricates precision parts and explicitly mentions having made a component for Sammann that morning. The rooftop recording ties him to the Ita technician previously encountered in her machine hall.

Descriptions/Characteristics

No formal description is given beyond his identification as an Ita technician working at the rooftop instruments. He is seen close‑up while cleaning, but the text focuses on his actions rather than on enduring physical characteristics.

Current Status/Location

Active within the concent. He performs routine midday maintenance atop the Pinnacle. After the initial dust‑jacket incident, he is later seen transporting a second tablet and monitoring the sun while wearing protective goggles.