Cord

Overview

Cord is an extramuros machinist connected to the Concent of Saunt Edhar through her sib, Fraa Erasmas. She travels with Evoked avout in her fetch toward Bly’s Butte, offering steady driving and hands‑on mechanical perspective. After the visit to the butte and the gathering at Samble, she continues north into the mountains with Erasmas and companions to help look for Orolo.

Appearance and Traits

Direct, pragmatic, and technically skilled, Cord is comfortable around heavy machinery and fabrication tools and is at ease behind the wheel of a loaded fetch. She keeps a practical maintenance log for her vehicle and wears a tool‑laden vest, producing useful items as needed. On the road she is usually quiet and plain‑spoken, with a wry sense of humor; when engaged, she is forthright, teasing, and quick to translate abstractions into concrete terms. She shows easy familiarity with local customs in remote settlements and adapts her music and mood to the terrain, including switching to recordings of concent music when the company heads into high country.

Roles and Actions

• During Apert at the Concent of Saunt Edhar, reconnects with Erasmas and visits the clockworks in the Mynster as a supervised guest, engaging with the machinery in practical terms.
• Assists after a broad Evocation by helping assemble a mixed company and offering her industrial fetch for the road; keeps long hours at the wheel and shares driving when needed.
• Contributes practical analysis when the group studies a photomnemonic image of a large icosahedral craft, mapping unfamiliar structures to shock‑absorber frames, pivot joints, and protective cladding.
• At the village of Samble below Bly’s Butte, quickly eases a brief confrontation when a local arrives armed; she explains that carrying sidearms is normal “out here” and steers the mood toward the community picnic. Later, some companions descend in the vehicle of Ganelial Crade.
• Leaves Samble with Erasmas, traveling north in her fetch with Crade and Sammann to search the mountains for Orolo; she helps procure fuel, food, and warm clothing and loads the gear into her vehicle.
• At a hill tarn campsite, beds down in her fetch while the others share a tent; resumes the drive the next day into higher country.
• Offers Erasmas plain counsel about writing to Ala, encouraging a simple letter that says how he feels about her. She lends him a blank page from her fetch’s maintenance notebook for the draft.
• During the climb into the mountains, changes the music to recordings of concent pieces, beginning with a lament associated with the Third Sack.

Relationships

• Erasmas: younger sib; they collaborate readily, and he relies on her for extramuros logistics and steady driving. On the road she offers candid advice about his letter to Ala.
• Rosk: her partner; after parting at Samble she maintains frequent, brief jeejah calls with him while traveling.
• Ganelial Crade and Sammann: traveling companions during the push north; Cord is content to follow Crade’s lead on routes while Sammann works his instruments.
• Ita: a professional community she jokes about good‑naturedly (“the girl Ita”), reflecting her comfort bantering with technically minded companions.

Current Status

Traveling north into the mountains with Erasmas and others after Samble, making camp en route and continuing the search for Orolo while managing vehicle maintenance and supplies.