Arsibalt

First Appearance and Context

Arsibalt is first presented among the Tenners at the Concent of Saunt Edhar during Provener, taking a place on the winding crew and tending to practical logistics around rites and study.

Affiliations and Relationships

• Peer and close collaborator of Fraa Erasmas; also works alongside Lio, Jesry, and Tulia in study circles and practical observing.
• Frequently coaches and steadies Barb, answering questions with formal diction and helping channel his energy into orderly tasks.
• Engages with work and lines of inquiry associated with Fraa Orolo; he favors rigorous wording and metatheoric framing in group discussions.
• Order and community: aligned with a reformed Faanian tradition intramuros; keeps cordial ties across cohorts and shows hostly concern for visitors and Hundreders.

Important Actions

• Winding-team and studies: supports timekeeping, contributes to sky‑measurement efforts, and helps manage a discreet workspace for handling sensitive evidence (e.g., a hidden tablet) with caution about what is established versus conjecture.
• Framing travel Discipline: when a Convox is declared, he distinguishes Voco from Convox and explains how a Peregrin group can preserve Discipline while traveling together among extras (as doctrine, not a rule change). He argues that the fresh order to reach the destination by any means necessary takes precedence over older expectations about isolation while en route.
• Early extramuros movement: goes out in plain clothes with assigned Hundreders, then later reconvenes at a local machine hall where volunteers and vehicles are assembling.
• Navigation and the Bly’s Butte detour: by his own account, he brought a rendering of Bly’s Butte from concent holdings and uses it to assist route‑finding. He joins a small navigation team in a local driver’s mobe, offers practical reasoning about butte topography and road choice, and supports a plan to regroup after the brief detour before continuing toward the designated Convox site.
• Commentary and caution: observes that an assertive volunteer behaves like a stock “villain” from literature, and urges the group to keep its own counsel rather than rely on a single guide.

References to intentions, motives, or past actions that are not directly witnessed (e.g., the timing and manner of acquiring Bly‑related materials) are included here as stated by Arsibalt and should be treated as his account, not independently verified fact.

Descriptions and Characteristics

Portly and strong, methodical, and propriety‑minded. He favors elevated, precise language, clears his throat to signal formality, and can redden when provoked. He sweats under stress but remains focused on correctness and procedure. In discussion he readily invokes classical theoric forms and metatheoric distinctions, aiming to separate conjecture from observation.

Current Status/Location

Evoked and traveling extramuros in a small caravan. At present he rides with a mixed group that detours toward Bly’s Butte, with the stated intent to proceed on to the Concent of Saunt Tredegarh as part of the broader Peregrin dialog tradition maintained within the Convox.