Suur Trestanas

First Appearance and Context

Suur Trestanas is first observed enforcing Discipline inside the cloistered precincts of the Concent of Saunt Edhar, issuing minor penances and presiding from the Regulant’s place during services in the Mynster. Near the opening, she was seen at the starhenge cupola with the Master of the Keys; after portcullises were drawn shut, she had a tense, private exchange with Fraa Orolo by the gate. From that point the Starhenge remained sealed, an extraordinary situation noted by avout across the concent.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• As the Warden Regulant, Trestanas enforces the Discipline within the maths, oversees conduct around visitors and instruments, and assigns penances when duties are neglected.
• Affiliation: Order of the New Circle. Within this order she is regarded as a central figure whose views circulate quickly among peers.
• During and after the public opening, when visiting Inquisitors were present, she "threw" The Book at a young fraa with a sentence reaching Chapter Five, effectively placing him in seclusion in a Regulant court cell. He later inferred that the timing kept him away from the community while the Inquisition was among them.
• After a formal Evocation, she declined to escalate penalty for his brief absence from his cell, and clarified that if such an aut occurred again he was to view it from behind the Primate’s screen and then return. She treated attendance at Voco as an exception to cell confinement.
• During the lead-up to a rare aut that shook the community, she was seen moving between offices in the Regulant court. When she encountered a tenner ascending with drawing equipment, she assessed the situation and let him pass without challenge.

Relationships

• Fraa Orolo: engaged in a tense, muffled exchange at the starhenge portcullis; the encounter coincided with the starhenge’s closure.
• Fraa Erasmas: recipient of her Book sentence; later she showed measured leniency regarding a procedural lapse during Evocation and provided explicit guidance on conduct. After a later aut, he harbors dark suspicions that Trestanas may have had an unseen role in what befell a senior theor; this reflects his perception rather than an established fact. In subsequent conversations amid rumor and recrimination, he rejects the idea that she is part of a conspiracy and instead characterizes her harshly; he also contemplates publicly embarrassing Trestanas—alongside Fraa Spelikon and Statho—by revealing results he hopes to obtain.
• Fraa Corlandin: a continuing liaison is assumed by observers, which can make encounters socially delicate.
• Fraa Spelikon: noted by avout as having been passed over for the office in favor of Trestanas.
• Visiting Inquisitors (including Onali and Varax): her disciplinary decisions and communications took place while they were on site.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Trestanas is brisk, organized, and exacting—a new holder of office who initially issued many small penances. She distinguishes carefully between what avout must do versus want to do when assigning penance. In practice she can be pragmatic and even lenient once circumstances change (e.g., after visiting authorities depart). Among peers she has a watchful reputation; jokes about her listening from the leaf piles reflect heightened vigilance during the starhenge closure. In the same period described above, some avout remarked that she seemed to be “cracking” and quipped that she might be sent to Physicians’ Commons—comments that reflect tension and rumor rather than any confirmed diagnosis. - During furtive excursions near the riverbank, avout are described as checking sight-lines to the Warden Regulant’s windows, reflecting an expectation of her vigilance and oversight.

Perceptions and Rumors

A later wave of talk within the community frames recent Discipline and office politics during the season of Eliger as conspiratorial. This is presented in-text as unverified rumor. A contemporaneous Edharian perspective dismisses the conspiracist framing yet portrays Trestanas as malevolent; the harsh characterization reflects personal animus rather than an established fact. - In conversation, an avout argues that the Ita cannot relay everything they learn to the Warden Regulant, or else Trestanas would have to spend all her time with them; this portrays the Ita as choosing what intelligence to pass upward and implies that she may not be briefed on every detail. This is presented as speculation within the community. - The same discussion notes that neither Spelikon nor Trestanas are thought to have “soft spots” for a particular young fraa, underscoring her strict reputation from his perspective. - Among young avout engaged in a clandestine project, it is remarked that informing on such activity would "score points" with the Warden Regulant; another quip holds that if she discovered a hidden instrument it would revert to being the original discoverer’s "own" device, implying strict assignment of responsibility.

Current Status/Location

Active as Warden Regulant among the hierarchs, focused on maintaining order during the season of Eliger and the rare Evocation, while restrictive measures remain in effect around the starhenge. She remains visibly engaged in the Regulant court’s operations during and after a later aut.