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	== Known members ==		== Known members ==
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	- [[Fowlett]] - professor-inquirer		* [[Fowlett]] - professor-inquirer
	- [[Hegelsy]] - inquirer		* [[Hegelsy]] - inquirer
	- [[Maserley]] - fellow-invigilator		* [[Maserley]] - fellow-invigilator
	- [[Prassel]] - fellow-inquirer		* [[Prassel]] - fellow-inquirer
	- [[The Correct Speech Inquirer]] - sage-inquirer		* [[The Correct Speech Inquirer]] - sage-inquirer

	== History ==		== History ==
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	By the book's final chapter, Correct Speech has contracted into a single abstract threat in Angilly's mind: a Palleseen oversight body that judges failure, before which the [[Charms\|necklace]] could "buy off" that failure - ch 10. It is no longer a building, a hearing, or a colleague; it is the name of the consequence she is trying to avoid.		By the book's final chapter, Correct Speech has contracted into a single abstract threat in Angilly's mind: a Palleseen oversight body that judges failure, before which the [[Charms\|necklace]] could "buy off" that failure - ch 10. It is no longer a building, a hearing, or a colleague; it is the name of the consequence she is trying to avoid.

	- implied, ch 3: Angilly's bypass of Lasaret is explained - she considered the matter a Correct Thought concern that warranted escalation to Correct Speech.		* implied, ch 3: Angilly's bypass of Lasaret is explained - she considered the matter a Correct Thought concern that warranted escalation to Correct Speech.
	- implied, ch 6: Angilly's question about Benallers' fate is not answered; whether he was captured by Correct Speech, killed in his mother's homeland, or fled remains open.		* implied, ch 6: Angilly's question about Benallers' fate is not answered; whether he was captured by Correct Speech, killed in his mother's homeland, or fled remains open.
	- implied, ch 4: whether Lasaret or Correct Speech learns of Angilly's role in the demon conjuration is not resolved within the book.		* implied, ch 4: whether Lasaret or Correct Speech learns of Angilly's role in the demon conjuration is not resolved within the book.

	=== Days of Shattered Faith ===		=== Days of Shattered Faith ===
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	== Relationships ==		== Relationships ==
	- '''[[Hegelsy\|Fellow-Inquirer Hegelsy]]''' - A Fellow-Inquirer operating in Ilmar, Hegelsy is the School's most sustained early presence: he stops Blackmane after a pardon, interrogates Ivarn Ostravar in private cells, commands Palleseen forces during the siege, and ultimately bears the blame for operational failures. His ambition for promotion to Sage-Inquirer sits alongside fear of humiliation from superiors such as [[Culvern\|Sage-Invigilator Culvern]], and Culvern physically forces him to wear the Indweller mask during an internal blame-session - City of Last Chances, ch 5, ch 8, ch 13, ch 21, ch 37, ch 48.		* '''[[Hegelsy\|Fellow-Inquirer Hegelsy]]''' - A Fellow-Inquirer operating in Ilmar, Hegelsy is the School's most sustained early presence: he stops Blackmane after a pardon, interrogates Ivarn Ostravar in private cells, commands Palleseen forces during the siege, and ultimately bears the blame for operational failures. His ambition for promotion to Sage-Inquirer sits alongside fear of humiliation from superiors such as [[Culvern\|Sage-Invigilator Culvern]], and Culvern physically forces him to wear the Indweller mask during an internal blame-session - City of Last Chances, ch 5, ch 8, ch 13, ch 21, ch 37, ch 48.

	- '''Prassel''' - The School's relationship with Prassel evolves from simple commissioning authority to an institution that simultaneously promotes and investigates her. She holds her Fellow-Inquirer rank through the School, commands its necromancy sub-department, and is elevated to Acting-Sage-Inquirer, yet the Higher Orders investigate her department for sedition and unexplained deaths - House of Open Wounds, ch 2, ch 37, ch 51. As the Lich Queen she reasserts her Sage-Inquirer commission with defiant dignity, and her necromantic discipline's science is redacted from the School's lists, marking continued membership even as her methods grow monstrous - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 38. She is later summoned to the Archipelago by order of Correct Speech for the camp killings - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 40.		* '''Prassel''' - The School's relationship with Prassel evolves from simple commissioning authority to an institution that simultaneously promotes and investigates her. She holds her Fellow-Inquirer rank through the School, commands its necromancy sub-department, and is elevated to Acting-Sage-Inquirer, yet the Higher Orders investigate her department for sedition and unexplained deaths - House of Open Wounds, ch 2, ch 37, ch 51. As the Lich Queen she reasserts her Sage-Inquirer commission with defiant dignity, and her necromantic discipline's science is redacted from the School's lists, marking continued membership even as her methods grow monstrous - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 38. She is later summoned to the Archipelago by order of Correct Speech for the camp killings - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 40.

	- '''[[Yasnic\|Jack]]''' - Jack is wanted by the School for the spy's death, creating jurisdictional friction with [[Thurrel\|Fellow-Archivist Thurrel]] who holds him; his crime is formally labelled "Incorrect Speech" in Palleseen letters and his column is paraded through camp to deter subversion - House of Open Wounds, ch 9, ch 45. Tallifer fears he will be "carted off" by the Inquirers for speaking his native hooley-hooley language - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.		* '''[[Yasnic\|Jack]]''' - Jack is wanted by the School for the spy's death, creating jurisdictional friction with [[Thurrel\|Fellow-Archivist Thurrel]] who holds him; his crime is formally labelled "Incorrect Speech" in Palleseen letters and his column is paraded through camp to deter subversion - House of Open Wounds, ch 9, ch 45. Tallifer fears he will be "carted off" by the Inquirers for speaking his native hooley-hooley language - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.

	- '''[[Thurrel]]''' - A jurisdictional conflict arises when the School's interest in the spy's death brings it into conflict with Thurrel's custody of Jack; Thurrel must report back to Correct Speech or face its consequences, and the Fisher King mantle-holder risks being shot - House of Open Wounds, ch 9, ch 47.		* '''[[Thurrel]]''' - A jurisdictional conflict arises when the School's interest in the spy's death brings it into conflict with Thurrel's custody of Jack; Thurrel must report back to Correct Speech or face its consequences, and the Fisher King mantle-holder risks being shot - House of Open Wounds, ch 9, ch 47.

	- '''[[Angilly\|Gil Angilly]]''' - Angilly's mother held a Fellow-Inquirer commission from the School; Angilly resented the interrogating role but wanted to join the department - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 1, ch 2. She petitions [[Meller]], the Sage-Inquirer heading the Farasland operation, directly, bypassing her own superior; Meller exonerates the superior and returns her to his authority - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 3. In Usmai she hands a renegade to Correct Speech as routine enforcement work - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 9. By the book's close Correct Speech has contracted into an abstract threat, a name for the consequence she tries to avoid - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 10.		* '''[[Angilly\|Gil Angilly]]''' - Angilly's mother held a Fellow-Inquirer commission from the School; Angilly resented the interrogating role but wanted to join the department - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 1, ch 2. She petitions [[Meller]], the Sage-Inquirer heading the Farasland operation, directly, bypassing her own superior; Meller exonerates the superior and returns her to his authority - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 3. In Usmai she hands a renegade to Correct Speech as routine enforcement work - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 9. By the book's close Correct Speech has contracted into an abstract threat, a name for the consequence she tries to avoid - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 10.

	- '''[[Dantell, 'the Stoat']]''' - Dantell's relationship to the School is one of sustained, escalating fear: she exploits her "Stoat" reputation to appear as one of its agents while dreading its Inquisition, contemplates how the School "won't stand for any of it" regarding what she has witnessed, hopes the city's fall will let her "go home without fear of Correct Speech," and imagines someone arriving with an inquisitor's writ - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 6, ch 11, ch 12, ch 14, ch 23.		* '''[[Dantell, 'the Stoat']]''' - Dantell's relationship to the School is one of sustained, escalating fear: she exploits her "Stoat" reputation to appear as one of its agents while dreading its Inquisition, contemplates how the School "won't stand for any of it" regarding what she has witnessed, hopes the city's fall will let her "go home without fear of Correct Speech," and imagines someone arriving with an inquisitor's writ - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 6, ch 11, ch 12, ch 14, ch 23.

	- '''[[Drathel]]''' - Drathel fears and resents Correct Speech investigations; an unannounced visit from a Sage-Inquirer signals danger to her operations, and she files the information as leverage - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29.		* '''[[Drathel]]''' - Drathel fears and resents Correct Speech investigations; an unannounced visit from a Sage-Inquirer signals danger to her operations, and she files the information as leverage - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29.

	- '''[[Mellister]]''' - A Fellow-Inquirer who tracked financial graft within the Resolute Battalion, Mellister's career in the School ended when Brandery shot her for confronting him about skimming; she retains her rank badge and School insignia, which momentarily halt the Pal vanguard in the streets of Eres Ffenegh - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 29, ch 41.		* '''[[Mellister]]''' - A Fellow-Inquirer who tracked financial graft within the Resolute Battalion, Mellister's career in the School ended when Brandery shot her for confronting him about skimming; she retains her rank badge and School insignia, which momentarily halt the Pal vanguard in the streets of Eres Ffenegh - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 29, ch 41.

	- '''[[Quellery\|Companion-Invigilator Quellery]]''' - Quellery fears the School's Culling Lists and the threat of being "peeled" for Fisher King cult markings, and states flatly that the command echelon's precariousness means "It's Correct Speech's show right now" - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 33.		* '''[[Quellery\|Companion-Invigilator Quellery]]''' - Quellery fears the School's Culling Lists and the threat of being "peeled" for Fisher King cult markings, and states flatly that the command echelon's precariousness means "It's Correct Speech's show right now" - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 33.

	- '''[[Ivarn Ostravar\|Maestro Ivarn Ostravar]]''' - Held in Correct Speech's private cells beneath the Donjon for several days and interrogated by Hegelsy about curriculum and language rather than the crime occasioning his arrest; rumour spreads through the Siblingry that he died under the School's ministrations - City of Last Chances, ch 21, ch 22.		* '''[[Ivarn Ostravar\|Maestro Ivarn Ostravar]]''' - Held in Correct Speech's private cells beneath the Donjon for several days and interrogated by Hegelsy about curriculum and language rather than the crime occasioning his arrest; rumour spreads through the Siblingry that he died under the School's ministrations - City of Last Chances, ch 21, ch 22.

	- '''[[Ollery]]''' - Prassel invokes the School's name as a coercive instrument to prevent Ollery from being shot, then personally sentences him to sixteen lashes - House of Open Wounds, ch 32.		* '''[[Ollery]]''' - Prassel invokes the School's name as a coercive instrument to prevent Ollery from being shot, then personally sentences him to sixteen lashes - House of Open Wounds, ch 32.

	- '''[[Maserley]]''' - Maserley invokes the School's machinery as a threat against a quartermaster, warning of a Correct Speech inquiry for insufficient commitment to the assault - House of Open Wounds, ch 35.		* '''[[Maserley]]''' - Maserley invokes the School's machinery as a threat against a quartermaster, warning of a Correct Speech inquiry for insufficient commitment to the assault - House of Open Wounds, ch 35.

	- '''[[Shrievsby\|Statlos Shrievsby]]''' - An officer of Correct Conduct who flees the vengeance of Correct Speech after an unnamed transgression, fearing their retribution more than the corruption of the Reproach - City of Last Chances, ch 11.		* '''[[Shrievsby\|Statlos Shrievsby]]''' - An officer of Correct Conduct who flees the vengeance of Correct Speech after an unnamed transgression, fearing their retribution more than the corruption of the Reproach - City of Last Chances, ch 11.

	- '''[[Tallifer]]''' - Tallifer fears that Jack will be "carted off" by the Inquirers for speaking his native tongue, and her metaphor for the moment a person is irrevocably marked by the Correct Speech crowd-"the ship of suspicion"-crystallises the School's function as an instrument of permanent social branding - House of Open Wounds, ch 21, ch 45.		* '''[[Tallifer]]''' - Tallifer fears that Jack will be "carted off" by the Inquirers for speaking his native tongue, and her metaphor for the moment a person is irrevocably marked by the Correct Speech crowd-"the ship of suspicion"-crystallises the School's function as an instrument of permanent social branding - House of Open Wounds, ch 21, ch 45.

	- '''[[Benallers]]''' - Angilly speculates that Benallers, a Companion-Invigilator who vanished, may have ended his days in the hands of Correct Speech; his fate is never determined - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 5, ch 6.		* '''[[Benallers]]''' - Angilly speculates that Benallers, a Companion-Invigilator who vanished, may have ended his days in the hands of Correct Speech; his fate is never determined - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 5, ch 6.

	- '''[[Dalry]]''' - A Sage-Inquirer of great age and education, descended from an ancestor on the original Commission, who extracts information from locals with quiet courtesy and who fled with Annet when the School's apparatus shattered on the Archipelago - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 27, ch 28.		* '''[[Dalry]]''' - A Sage-Inquirer of great age and education, descended from an ancestor on the original Commission, who extracts information from locals with quiet courtesy and who fled with Annet when the School's apparatus shattered on the Archipelago - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 27, ch 28.

	- '''[[Fowlett\|Professor-Inquirer Fowlett]]''' - Arrives as Inquisitor General with reinforcements, supersedes [[Brandery\|Sage-Monitor Brandery]] as commanding officer, and orders "No prisoners, no mercy" during the final assault, representing the operational culmination of the purge - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 28, ch 41.		* '''[[Fowlett\|Professor-Inquirer Fowlett]]''' - Arrives as Inquisitor General with reinforcements, supersedes [[Brandery\|Sage-Monitor Brandery]] as commanding officer, and orders "No prisoners, no mercy" during the final assault, representing the operational culmination of the purge - Pretenders to the Throne Of God, ch 28, ch 41.

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