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	== Known members ==		== Known members ==
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	- [[Angilly]] - resident		* [[Angilly]] - resident
	- [[Croskin]] - cohort-monitor		* [[Croskin]] - cohort-monitor
	- [[Flint Postry]] - seraphi		* [[Flint Postry]] - seraphi
	- [[God]] - regular		* [[God]] - regular
	- [[Ollery]] - alchemist and lead medico		* [[Ollery]] - alchemist and lead medico
	- [[Samellers]] - cohort-invigilator		* [[Samellers]] - cohort-invigilator

	== History ==		== History ==
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	== Relationships ==		== Relationships ==
	- '''[[Angilly]]''' - A Palleseen orphan raised in the phalanstery system who becomes a Sage-Invigilator in Outreach and serves as Resident in Usmai. She begins as a true believer who reports colleagues as "a traitor to Pallesand, a traitor to Correct Thought" and who is taught in Junior phal that "the Palleseen way was best." Over the course of the series she becomes a lover of the Usmiat prince, a duellist who kills the Loruthi envoy, a fugitive from Palleseen justice, and finally a woman who confesses "I didn't do this for Pallesand. I did this for you." Her arc traces the distance between the Palleseen child who recites the Precepts and the Palleseen adult who understands that the Sway erases "local traditions, gods, languages."		* '''[[Angilly]]''' - A Palleseen orphan raised in the phalanstery system who becomes a Sage-Invigilator in Outreach and serves as Resident in Usmai. She begins as a true believer who reports colleagues as "a traitor to Pallesand, a traitor to Correct Thought" and who is taught in Junior phal that "the Palleseen way was best." Over the course of the series she becomes a lover of the Usmiat prince, a duellist who kills the Loruthi envoy, a fugitive from Palleseen justice, and finally a woman who confesses "I didn't do this for Pallesand. I did this for you." Her arc traces the distance between the Palleseen child who recites the Precepts and the Palleseen adult who understands that the Sway erases "local traditions, gods, languages."

	- '''[[Loret]]''' - A Cohort-Invigilator from the Archipelago who arrives as aide to the Resident in Usmai. She is subject to Palleseen ordinances forbidding fraternising with locals during religious rites, yet she breaks with the Sway entirely-first for God, then for the Fisher King cult-and by the book's close "still answered to" the name Loret, implying a total break with that role. She frees Angilly from imprisonment in the House of Hard Angles and regards the Palleseen conversion of divine flesh into "charged tablethi" as a misuse.		* '''[[Loret]]''' - A Cohort-Invigilator from the Archipelago who arrives as aide to the Resident in Usmai. She is subject to Palleseen ordinances forbidding fraternising with locals during religious rites, yet she breaks with the Sway entirely-first for God, then for the Fisher King cult-and by the book's close "still answered to" the name Loret, implying a total break with that role. She frees Angilly from imprisonment in the House of Hard Angles and regards the Palleseen conversion of divine flesh into "charged tablethi" as a misuse.

	- '''[[Culvern]]''' - The Perfector of Ilmar, who frames the Sway as "the greater good" and "perfection" and attempts to parley with the Indwellers insisting "Pallesand has only ever wished the open hand of peace between us." His curse after the execution of the Old Duke transcends Palleseen medicine, Correct Thought, and all healing traditions. He embodies the Palleseen at their most sincere and most trapped: rational in principle, impotent in practice.		* '''[[Culvern]]''' - The Perfector of Ilmar, who frames the Sway as "the greater good" and "perfection" and attempts to parley with the Indwellers insisting "Pallesand has only ever wished the open hand of peace between us." His curse after the execution of the Old Duke transcends Palleseen medicine, Correct Thought, and all healing traditions. He embodies the Palleseen at their most sincere and most trapped: rational in principle, impotent in practice.

	- '''[[Vidsya Sirovar]]]]''' - An Armiger family head who "cuts deals with the Palleseen 'sometimes' as a survival tactic." Her Ravens strategy holds that the Armigers and the Palleseen "have more in common" than either has with the streets: "The Pals are a curse, and their occupation will end, but until then, they at least maintain civic order. They can be reasoned with and bribed." She represents the collaboration that the Sway depends upon and despises in equal measure.		* '''[[Vidsya Sirovar]]]]''' - An Armiger family head who "cuts deals with the Palleseen 'sometimes' as a survival tactic." Her Ravens strategy holds that the Armigers and the Palleseen "have more in common" than either has with the streets: "The Pals are a curse, and their occupation will end, but until then, they at least maintain civic order. They can be reasoned with and bribed." She represents the collaboration that the Sway depends upon and despises in equal measure.

	- '''[[Blackmane]]''' - A shopkeeper who has "arrangements with the Pals every time he wanted something from my shop." Ivarn Ostravar used the Palleseen to take an enchanted mirror from his premises. He is a collaborator who navigates Palleseen authority for personal gain while retaining his own commercial sovereignty.		* '''[[Blackmane]]''' - A shopkeeper who has "arrangements with the Pals every time he wanted something from my shop." Ivarn Ostravar used the Palleseen to take an enchanted mirror from his premises. He is a collaborator who navigates Palleseen authority for personal gain while retaining his own commercial sovereignty.

	- '''The [[Indwellers]]''' - The supernatural peoples of the Anchorwood whose conflict with the Palleseen escalates from a feud over the killing of Sage-Archivist Ochelby to a formal declaration of war. They walk through Palleseen sentries "by secret ways" in a mist that renders the soldiers irrelevant, demonstrating that the Sway's rationalist military logic has no purchase on the Wood's power. The Indwellers declare: "The folk of Pallesand have shed the blood of the Wood. They are barred from the trees on pain of death."		* '''The [[Indwellers]]''' - The supernatural peoples of the Anchorwood whose conflict with the Palleseen escalates from a feud over the killing of Sage-Archivist Ochelby to a formal declaration of war. They walk through Palleseen sentries "by secret ways" in a mist that renders the soldiers irrelevant, demonstrating that the Sway's rationalist military logic has no purchase on the Wood's power. The Indwellers declare: "The folk of Pallesand have shed the blood of the Wood. They are barred from the trees on pain of death."

	- '''[[Lor]]''' - The Palleseen's great rival and current military enemy. "The Loruthi never wanted a war with the Palleseen and, to their credit, the Palleseen didn't particularly want a war with them either." The war between them reshapes the political map: it triggers the forced reunification of Bracinta, the redeployment of forces, and the shift of influence in Usmai. At its close the two powers sit in a tense standoff, "neither trusting the Bracite population."		* '''[[Lor]]''' - The Palleseen's great rival and current military enemy. "The Loruthi never wanted a war with the Palleseen and, to their credit, the Palleseen didn't particularly want a war with them either." The war between them reshapes the political map: it triggers the forced reunification of Bracinta, the redeployment of forces, and the shift of influence in Usmai. At its close the two powers sit in a tense standoff, "neither trusting the Bracite population."

	- '''The [[Gownhall]]''' - An academic institution in Ilmar "at least halfway free" from Palleseen control, its inner circle having staved off a complete takeover. The Palleseen install Maestro Vorkovin as a "Fellow-Trustie," making him simultaneously responsible to them and to his colleagues, with an Invigilator sitting as his handler. The arrest of Maestro Ivarn Ostravar breaches the Gownhall's fragile autonomy. The institution represents the space-however narrow-that the Sway's totalising logic has not yet closed.		* '''The [[Gownhall]]''' - An academic institution in Ilmar "at least halfway free" from Palleseen control, its inner circle having staved off a complete takeover. The Palleseen install Maestro Vorkovin as a "Fellow-Trustie," making him simultaneously responsible to them and to his colleagues, with an Invigilator sitting as his handler. The arrest of Maestro Ivarn Ostravar breaches the Gownhall's fragile autonomy. The institution represents the space-however narrow-that the Sway's totalising logic has not yet closed.

	- '''The [[Accessories\|Turncoats]]''' - Local Ilmari collaborators in "a pale imitation" of Palleseen uniforms, responsible for arresting students and policing the streets. They are distinguished from full Palleseen soldiers by the students. They represent the Sway's strategy of governing through conquered proxies while maintaining the fiction of local agency.		* '''The [[Accessories\|Turncoats]]''' - Local Ilmari collaborators in "a pale imitation" of Palleseen uniforms, responsible for arresting students and policing the streets. They are distinguished from full Palleseen soldiers by the students. They represent the Sway's strategy of governing through conquered proxies while maintaining the fiction of local agency.

	- '''The [[Galletes]]''' - A conquered people whose floating islands are used as troop transport: "not one island that isn't in Pal service." They are "tolerated but viewed with envy and suspicion" by the Palleseen. Their situation illustrates the Sway's logic of extracting utility from conquered peoples while denying them full membership.		* '''The [[Galletes]]''' - A conquered people whose floating islands are used as troop transport: "not one island that isn't in Pal service." They are "tolerated but viewed with envy and suspicion" by the Palleseen. Their situation illustrates the Sway's logic of extracting utility from conquered peoples while denying them full membership.

	- '''[[Bracinta]]''' - A wealthy nation never formally conquered but "not within the Sway," controlled through advisor-perfectors, a northern garrison under a standing invitation, and the Palleseen Resident as "Pallesand's diplomatic anchor." The Bracite Problem is handled by "slowly sliding their regulation-booted feet under it inch by inch until they'd made themselves entirely at home." The Palleseen see Bracinta's opulence as a resource to be funnelled to the Archipelago.		* '''[[Bracinta]]''' - A wealthy nation never formally conquered but "not within the Sway," controlled through advisor-perfectors, a northern garrison under a standing invitation, and the Palleseen Resident as "Pallesand's diplomatic anchor." The Bracite Problem is handled by "slowly sliding their regulation-booted feet under it inch by inch until they'd made themselves entirely at home." The Palleseen see Bracinta's opulence as a resource to be funnelled to the Archipelago.

	- '''[[God]]''' - A divinity who survived the Palleseen by taking refuge in a boy's eyes after the reclaimers nearly decanted Him. He calls Palleseen knock-out discs "Pal candy" and calls the Palleseen themselves "You Pals, you make brutalising the world a way of life." He is the living refutation of the Palleseen claim that gods are irrational fictions-a god who must hide from a bureaucracy.		* '''[[God]]''' - A divinity who survived the Palleseen by taking refuge in a boy's eyes after the reclaimers nearly decanted Him. He calls Palleseen knock-out discs "Pal candy" and calls the Palleseen themselves "You Pals, you make brutalising the world a way of life." He is the living refutation of the Palleseen claim that gods are irrational fictions-a god who must hide from a bureaucracy.

	- '''The [[Hospitallers]]''' - Palleseen personnel running a hospital and soup kitchen inside the besieged Eres Ffenegh, contrasted with "the other lot over at the Lighthouse, who weren't so philanthropic." They represent the Sway's capacity for genuine local utility even within an apparatus of conquest.		* '''The [[Hospitallers]]''' - Palleseen personnel running a hospital and soup kitchen inside the besieged Eres Ffenegh, contrasted with "the other lot over at the Lighthouse, who weren't so philanthropic." They represent the Sway's capacity for genuine local utility even within an apparatus of conquest.

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