Suur Ala

First Appearance and Context

Suur Ala is first observed at the Concent of Saunt Edhar, working alongside Tulia on practical chores near the Refectory before daily duties. Within her Tenner cohort she quickly emerges as a capable organizer on bell teams and in crowded moments.

Roles and Actions

• Bell work and mentoring: Ala helps assemble and rehearse ringers, and spends time in the Mynster’s lower belfry with Tulia maintaining mechanisms, practicing unfamiliar changes, and passing techniques to younger girls.
• Discreet observation: With Tulia, she arranged a pinhole projection in a maintenance room beneath the carillon to view the sun safely. With Fraa Erasmas present, they marked a sequence of brief blue‑white “sparks” on the projected disk by pricking pinholes to record each sighting and to outline the disk for reference.
• Evidence for later analysis: The pinholed leaf Ala prepared became the reference used by peers to analyze the maneuver of the object after her departure.
• Evocation: During a ringing of Voco, Ala’s name was called and she departed with the Evoked under the authority of the Sæcular Power.

Relationships and Affiliations

• New Circle: After Eliger, Ala chose the Order of the New Circle.
• Tulia: Close working partner in chores, bell work, and the pinhole observation; they often operate as a practical pair. See Tulia.
• Fraa Erasmas: Their interactions intensify around the time of the pinhole observation; the two agreed to declare an Etrevanean liaison before witnesses, but the Voco intervened before any aut could be entered in the Chronicle. See Fraa Erasmas.
• Peer view of selection: Among her peers, her strength at organizing others is cited as a likely reason she was chosen for Evocation; this is presented as opinion rather than confirmed fact.

Description

Forthright, brisk, and decisive. Small and bony with a round head, large eyes, a delicate sharp nose, and a wide mouth; she keeps her hair cropped short. Her manner shifts easily from command to collaboration when a practical path is clear.

Current Status/Location

Evoked during Voco and departed the concent under escort. Her subsequent whereabouts are outside the community’s view.