Warden Regulant

First Appearance and Context

Avout (monastic scholars) commonly invoke this office when device or recording rules are at issue, warning that breaches will come to the Warden Regulant’s attention and may result in penance. The holder is seated among the hierarchs in the chancel during major rites and is associated with the inward‑facing windows beneath the rooftop works.

Role and Structure

The Warden Regulant is an inward‑watching disciplinary office within a math (monastic community) and functions as a branch of the Inquisition (disciplinary office). The office reports to the Primate (chief hierarch), can (with officers) depose a Primate in defined circumstances, and supervises the Master of the Keys (key custodian). It complements the outward‑watching role of the Warden Fendant (external security head).

Activities and Influence

• Enforces the Discipline inside the walls, assigns penances for lapses or violations, and sets terms of confinement or exceptions for universal rites.
• Oversees access conditions to the upper works in coordination with the Master of the Keys, including sealing stairway portcullises during exceptional periods.
• Receives incident reports maintained for later Chronicle use; accounts suggest that auxiliaries may exercise judgment in what is forwarded.
• In a recent report, the Warden Regulant closed the Starhenge on the roof shortly after a photomnemonic tablet was retrieved from the Telescope of Saunts Mithra and Mylax (as related by Sammann of the Ita (technical order)).

Observation and Visibility

A south‑facing vineyard at the Concent of Saunt Edhar (walled monastery) is described as lying out of sight from any of the Warden Regulant’s windows; avout used such out‑of‑view spots for private dialogs or minor mischief, underscoring the office’s inward watch from specific vantage points rather than total visual coverage. Among Edharians, a discreet glance toward the Warden Regulant’s windows serves as a nonverbal cue to keep silent and play along, reflecting the office’s perceived watchfulness.

Relationships and Affiliations

• Current holder: Suur Trestanas, remembered for strict inward oversight and decisive actions concerning rooftop access.
• Hierarchy: supervises the Master of the Keys; reports to the Primate.
• Counterpart: works alongside the Warden Fendant, dividing inward versus outward oversight.

Current Status

Active as the inward‑facing disciplinary authority of the math, continuing to oversee internal order and to regulate, when needed, access to the upper works and rooftop instruments.