Cord

First Appearance and Context

Cord is introduced around an Apert at the Concent of Saunt Edhar, when she reconnects with her sib Fraa Erasmas outside the walls. She works at an old metalworks compound on a canal slip a short walk from the Century Gate. During the same opening, she is admitted as a supervised visitor to see the clockworks inside the Mynster, showing hands-on curiosity and practical insight.

Affiliations and Relationships

  • Fraa Erasmas: younger sib; they maintain an active, mutually helpful bond, and he seeks her help when coordinating extramuros logistics.
  • Rosk: her liaison-partner/boyfriend; accompanies her and rides with her in her vehicle.
  • Ita: professional ties; she has supplied parts to the Ita and, at Erasmas’s request, is able to contact an Ita technician (Sammann) to join a planning meeting.
  • Family and kin: seen with a younger cousin, Dath, during the opening.
  • Workplace: employed at the canal-side machine-hall until a dismissal connected to an unannounced gathering on site.

Important Actions

  • During the opening, tours the Mynster as a supervised visitor and engages with the clockworks in practical terms.
  • Supplies precision parts to the Ita from her shop work.
  • After a large Evocation, assists the departing avout by: (1) summoning an Ita (Sammann) to the covered canal rendezvous; (2) offering her industrial fetch to carry a mixed group—Erasmas, Fraa Jad, Fraa Barb, Sammann, and Rosk—as part of a caravan initially bound for Bly’s Butte and then onward toward Saunt Tredegarh.
  • Moments before Erasmas’s return to her shop, is fired by her boss in reaction to the planned gathering on the premises; later access for a midday assembly appears to be negotiated by outside authorities and insurance (as inferred from remarks about “leaning on” and policy concerns).

Descriptions and Characteristics

Direct, pragmatic, and technically skilled. Comfortable around heavy machinery, she operates precision tools (including a five-axis mill and a plasma cutter) and also uses shop access to craft jewelry. Her ties to the Ita can include pay or barter in kind (e.g., honey). She is emotionally affected by the job loss yet quickly pivots to ask for “an adventure,” balancing boldness with awareness of risk. In her workplace she notes being “weird here” as a woman in that environment.

Current Status/Location

Lives extramuros near the canal-side metalworks by the Century Gate. Recently dismissed from the machine-hall; nonetheless preparing to drive her fetch with avout companions as part of a small-vehicle caravan. Re-entry to the shop area for a brief midday gathering seems permitted under pressure from outside parties and insurer negotiations (treated as conjecture based on dialogue).

Summary:

An extramuros machinist and sib of Fraa Erasmas associated with a metalworks compound near the Century Gate. Known for practical curiosity about the clockworks and ties to the Ita; after a recent upheaval she offers her fetch to carry avout on an urgent journey.

Known as:
Cord