Sammann

Overview

Sammann is an Ita technician from the Concent of Saunt Edhar. He travels extramuros with an avout Peregrin party, providing practical skills and networked research while the group tries to relocate Fraa Orolo. In public spaces he keeps a low profile and a precise, sometimes curt, manner; among companions he often plays devil’s advocate and explains how large-network information must be filtered. In the far north he also sets clear, practical rules for travel safety and clandestine crossings.

Appearance and Traits

• Long beard and hair; when dressed in ordinary extramuros clothes he still stands out, and his bone structure marks him as ethnically distinct to locals.
• Methodical, technically fluent, and risk-aware. Works from a handheld terminal (jeejah), favoring structured searches over speculation and frequently checking source quality.
• Dry humor and a taste for debate; will press companions’ assumptions to test their reasoning.

Roles and Actions

• Rooftop access and tablet handling (prior): on instruction, retrieved a photomnemonic tablet from The Telescope of Saunts Mithra and Mylax and stated he kept a personal copy before delivering the original.
• Research at a refueling stop near Norslof: phototyped images brought by a companion and used a syntactic program via the Reticulum to match them to a live feed, locating a massive, orderly excavation on the island of Ecba. Zoomed views showed a walled cloister with a tower around a spiraling excavation that companions identified with the buried Temple of Orithena; reports he consulted attribute the dig’s founding to Edharian maths.
• Route-finding and logistics: studies maps and posted road logs to chart a course north, estimates distances, and helps pace the group’s travel toward the sledge port at Eighty-three North.
• Launch inquiry: sought access to restricted reticules and obtained a short, low-quality speely of eight white-suited people boarding a coach before a rocket launch. Official statements called it unmanned; his clip indicates eight boarded. Companions noted one figure in rope-like ceremonial garb linked to a Warden of Heaven, and—by gait—interpreted four as avout; the tall rearmost walker was recognized by one companion as Jesry.
• Border-crossing planning: before a planned handoff near the northern sledge port, researched undocumented crossing practices and advised disembarking the big train before inspectors’ sweep to transfer to local smugglers.
• Smuggler selection rules: set one guideline and two rules for safer passage—seek a sledge with many passengers (safety in numbers); Rule 1: never let your feet touch the surface or you risk abandonment; Rule 2: only entrust yourself to a driver whose rig has a “sonic” crevasse detector.
• Map support: printed a regional map around the sledge port to support the transfer and onward travel.
• Pass briefings: explained that three passes connect the inland plateau to the coast; drivers choose among them based on conditions heard over the wireless, and one pass is usually better but at times closes due to avalanches.

Relationships

• Erasmas: frequent technical partner and foil; Sammann’s careful phrasing and skepticism counterbalance Erasmas’s leaps of inference.
• Cord: cooperative, practical rapport in outfitting and travel; he respects her hands-on expertise and she relies on his research.
• Ganelial Crade: ongoing sparring over information quality and conspiracy-minded claims; Sammann leans on filtering and source-repute cues when adjudicating contested topics.

Current Status

Separated from one companion who took a smuggler sledge toward the coast; Sammann remains with Cord and the Crades to drive south from the sledge port, intending to rendezvous later at Mahsht.