Eight-fold Envelope

Definition

The Eight-fold Envelope is a named pleating configuration of an avout's bolt that forms an envelope-like bundle. It is used to package or conceal items from the standard avout kit.

Context and Usage

  • In a first-person account of a street assault in a northern port city, an avout had bundled the kit into trousers as a neat package, with the bolt pleated into the Eight-fold Envelope and the chord wound around it. When assailants yanked the items apart, the chord spiraled loose, the bolt fell open, and the compact sphere tumbled free.
  • The reference suggests a standardized, named fold known among avout; the text does not provide step-by-step handling beyond naming the configuration and showing its effect when undone.

Related Terms

Notes

  • Only the name and a single usage context are described; no diagram or folding instructions are given in-text. Terminology and hyphenation follow the printed form observed in the account.
Summary:

A named folding configuration of an avout's bolt used to make an envelope-like bundle for carrying or concealing kit. It is cited when an avout's bolt, pleated into this form, was pulled apart during a street attack, releasing the sphere as the chord unraveled.

First seen:
Part 7: Feral - Chapter 33: Vout
Most recently seen:
Part 7: Feral - Chapter 33: Vout
Known as:
Eight-fold Envelope