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 community as a counterbalance to the Sæcular Power, as presented in her Saeculum.
• In the Discipline, Cartas is cited as enumerating types of liaison and forbidding all of them in early codifications; later formulations differ on which are sanctioned.
• The Eleven: entries in The Dictionary record that Cartas originally drew up a short list of plants forbidden within maths (only three species at first), which was expanded in later centuries as more were discovered.

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.

Within the community she is invoked as a symbol of austerity; avout joke that hidden comforts would make her 'roll over in her chalcedony sarcophagus.'

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.