Chronicle

The Chronicle is an official record kept within the mathic world to log actions and observations required under the Cartasian Discipline. In plural usage (“the Chronicles”), the term refers to a concent’s compiled historical records that avout may consult during rites such as Provener.

First Appearance and Context

In garden-side conversation in the Cloister, a fraa assigned to weed as penance notes that a slashberry plant is not among the most strictly prohibited items on the list known as The Eleven. He remarks that truly proscribed specimens must be uprooted, burned, and “put down in the Chronicle,” establishing the Chronicle as the designated place for logging such matters.

Description and Role

• Singular (“the Chronicle”): The official handwritten ledger used to record incidents and observations that require documentation under the Discipline (for example, sightings or disposal of proscribed flora).
• Plural (“the Chronicles”): A broader term for the concent’s historical records and accounts. During liturgical recitations, listeners within the concent may be directed to consult the Chronicles for fuller accounts of persons and events.
• Publication of liaisons: Formal liaisons declared before witnesses are entered in the Chronicle, making it the official ledger for such personal auts.
• Administrative use: Cited by hierarchs and wardens during inquiries to corroborate items of record (such as rosters and sleeping‑cell assignments for particular nights).

Notable Mentions

• A teacher points students to accounts about Saunt Bly in the Chronicles; Bly’s relics are said to be preserved within the order’s holdings.
• An anecdote in the Chronicles describes a gate grinding open and avout emerging who claimed to be Ten‑thousanders celebrating Apert; it is presented as a device to provoke scrutiny rather than an uncontested historical fact.
• During an interview conducted by a Warden Regulant, the Chronicle is cited to confirm an avout’s assigned cellmates on a specific night during Apert.
• An avout arranges to publish an Etrevanean liaison after Provener and have it entered in the Chronicle, illustrating its use for recording personal liaisons.

Relationships and Functions

• Maintained within the concent as part of community record‑keeping and historical self‑documentation.
• Supports liturgy and study by collecting fuller historical accounts that complement brief references made in rites.
• Expresses the norms of the Discipline by favoring textual, firsthand records over mechanical devices.
• Used by Warden Regulant staff during investigations to corroborate assignments and related matters of record.

Current Status

The Chronicle is understood to be maintained within the math; a specific custodian or storage location has not been identified in the text. The Chronicles (plural) are referenced as available to those living within the concent; access procedures for outsiders have not been described.