Sequencers

First Appearance and Context

Sequencers are mentioned in connection with the coppice of page trees on the rise between the Decade Gate and the Century Gate. In that setting, they are credited with having “brought these trees into being,” providing the stock from which leaves are harvested and eventually made into pages for use within the Concent.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Tree creation: Sequencers are credited with the foundational work that produced the page trees. Even with their best efforts, only about one leaf in ten yields high‑grade page material suitable for a typical quarto‑sized book.
• Complementary roles: Their work is mentioned alongside that of arbortects, who shaped the trees with stout mid‑section boughs to make climbing and picking easier.
• Materials pipeline: After harvest, leaves are dried on lines, then pressed under stone for long aging before being cut into blank pages for distribution within the concent or for binding into books. Younger pupils pick leaves while older Avout stack, string, and later press them.

Relationships

• Arbortects: Cited together with arbortects in the context of the same page trees; the roles appear complementary (sequencers bringing the trees into being; arbortects shaping their form for practical harvesting).

Descriptions/Characteristics

• The text provides no organizational details, titles, or named individuals among the sequencers; only their role in originating the page trees is described.

Current Status/Location

• No current activity is described for the sequencers themselves. Their past work endures in the page trees that are presently harvested and processed within the concent.