Artisan Flec

First Appearance and Context

Artisan Flec is an extramuros craftsman admitted to the New Library shortly before an opening to repair a rotted rafter the avout could not reach in time. During this visit he is interviewed by Fraa Orolo, with Fraa Erasmas serving as amanuensis. Under supervision he is later permitted to observe Provener from a seat behind the north screen of the Mynster.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Arrives with tools and a crew who erect scaffolding to access the damaged beam; works under supervision according to Discipline.
• Engages in a conversational interview with Fraa Orolo about conditions outside the walls and about media practices.
• Requests permission to record Provener on a personal speelycaptor; as later reported by Quin, the Ita refused permission to operate the device from the assigned seat behind the north screen, citing the risk that it could image across the chancel into restricted naves. He therefore did not make a speely.
• Identified as a follower of the Warden of Heaven and said to listen to its casts while working.
• Later travels with Quin to the developing site named for Saunt Orolo, arriving as a visitor among volunteers helping to lay out boundaries and begin construction.
• Described by Quin as going through a difficult spell (divorce, slow business) and as unsettled in his beliefs after recent events involving the Warden of Heaven. Locally, he is welcomed under a rule of thumb that Deolater visitors are accepted so long as they are not certain they are right.
• Encouraged to visit Arsibalt’s Dowment to engage with discussions about faith, symbols, and meaning.

Relationships

• Interviewed by Fraa Orolo with assistance from Fraa Erasmas (amanuensis).
• Professional colleague of Quin, with whom he later travels to Orolo’s developing site.
• Travels in the same party as Fraa Tavener (“Barb”), who is said to have spent the drive “planing” him.

Descriptions/Characteristics

Practical, technically fluent with extramuros devices and jargon; observed in bright, casual clothing (a yellow shirt) when attending Provener. Later accounts portray him as candid but inwardly unsettled, reconsidering prior certainties.

Current Status/Location

First seen during supervised repair work and a monitored visit to Provener. Later noted at the site named for Saunt Orolo among visitors and early volunteers; his movements after arrival there are not detailed.

Additional Mentions

• While moving under escort from a hospital area within the Daban Urnud, Erasmas quips that he had turned into “Artisan Flec’s speelycaptor,” a figure of speech that underscores Flec’s cultural association with speely work.