Thousanders

First Appearance and Context

Avout refer to them as "our Thousanders," and during Apert they are present at rites inside the Mynster, heard reacting from behind their screen during Provener. Their math stands on the crag overlooking the complex, making them a prominent, if secluded, part of the landscape.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Cohort and setting: The Thousanders are the long‑cycle cohort whose math occupies the crag above the Mynster. For major rites, a reserved corner of the hall is associated with them, with a covered, intricately carved stair that descends from their portal to the floor.
• Order at this concent: Here, the Thousanders are all members of the Edharian Order, tracing their lineage to Halikaarn as they describe it.
• Records and study: A copy of a photomnemonic tablet recording Saunt Tancred's Nebula was made "for distribution to the Thousanders" after a multi‑millennial observing run, indicating their role as custodians of long‑horizon astronomical records.
• Residence: Their crag‑top community is the Millenarian Math.
• Nighttime red‑light tracing: On a night when an unusual, grainy red light bathed the math from above, the Thousanders created smoke and steam so that a narrow beam could be seen from below; observers then traced its direction to a moving red point high overhead.
• Voco and farewell: During a nighttime Voco, Fraa Jad of the Millenarians was named; the cohort answered with a powerful farewell before he departed with the Evoked.

Relationships

• Within the concent: They are one of several maths sharing the Mynster, occupying a screened nave across the chancel. Access to the rooftop instruments is regulated by portcullises managed by the hierarchs; each math has periods of sole access to avoid contact across cohorts. The hierarchs have also barred high‑spec speelycaptors inside the Mynster when such devices could image across into the Thousanders’ and Centenarians spaces.
• With visitors and outsiders: During Apert they remain screened in the hall; rumors and folk tales about them circulate extramuros, but accounts within the math treat such stories cautiously.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Placement and approach: Their math is set on a high crag. A walled stair links their portal to the Mynster's southeast corner; during rites they are associated with deep, resonant parts of the singing. In a witnessed farewell, they anchored a mighty bass line that could be felt as much as heard.
• Founding and works: The first Thousanders carved a narrow, meandering stair up the face of the crag, went up and stayed, and set to work building their own walls and towers; the covered stair that links down to the hall preserves this original approach.

Current Status/Location

Active on the crag above the Mynster and participating in rites. Specific leadership or internal customs beyond the above have not been detailed in the accounts available so far.