Fraa Carmolathu

Overview

Fraa Carmolathu is a Hundreder of the Concent of Saunt Edhar traveling with a small contingent detouring to Bly’s Butte to seek Fraa Orolo before continuing toward Saunt Tredegarh. He is first identified among the navigating group alongside Fraa Erasmas and Sammann; he comes across as somewhat reserved and is estimated by the narrator to be older than Orolo.

Appearance and Traits

• Social impression: described as slightly awkward in manner.
• Age: portrayed as older than Fraa Orolo by some years (an estimate, not a stated fact).
• Language and bearing: tends to keep to Orth among Hundreders and is not noted for speaking much Fluccish in mixed company.

Roles and Actions

• Volunteers to join the expedition that detours to Bly’s Butte to look for Fraa Orolo, riding with the navigating group and staging overnight at a nearby religious retreat.
• In the village of Samble at the base of the butte, he observes that the town makes little economic sense as a secular settlement and proposes it functions as a religious community; he suggests Estemard and, if present, Orolo might have exchanged useful services rather than money.
• Offers an etymology guess that “Samble” may be an old contraction of “Savant Bly,” and helps identify the head of the spiral road to the summit (temporarily blocked by Ganelial Crade’s fetch).

Relationships

• Travels within a mixed company that includes Fraa Erasmas, Sammann of the Ita, Arsibalt, and other avout and locals. Fellow Hundreders in the broader contingent include Fraa Criscan.
• A prior conjecture in narration suggested he might be friendly with Fraa Paphlagon; this is presented as speculation only.

Current Status

With the Bly’s Butte group in and around the village of Samble, participating in discussions about the settlement and the route toward the summit. No later individual actions are detailed in the available account.