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	During the meeting, the informant reports that Angilly granted a private audience to a [[Sage-Inquirer]] of [[the School of Correct Speech\|Correct Speech]] who arrived unannounced, and that Angilly subsequently departed for the Waygrove. She further discloses that the two fugitives Angilly had previously helped escape through the Waygrove were "on the run from back home" and had said things about what happened there. Drathel files this information as leverage and warns the informant to keep digging - ch 29.		During the meeting, the informant reports that Angilly granted a private audience to a [[Sage-Inquirer]] of [[the School of Correct Speech\|Correct Speech]] who arrived unannounced, and that Angilly subsequently departed for the Waygrove. She further discloses that the two fugitives Angilly had previously helped escape through the Waygrove were "on the run from back home" and had said things about what happened there. Drathel files this information as leverage and warns the informant to keep digging - ch 29.

	- The exact nature of the "something unnatural" the informant carried into Alkhalend, and what the mark entails - implied, ch 29.		* The exact nature of the "something unnatural" the informant carried into Alkhalend, and what the mark entails - implied, ch 29.
	- The full content of what the Waygrove fugitives said about their homeland is relayed only in summary; no verbatim account survives in the informant's report - implied, ch 29.		* The full content of what the Waygrove fugitives said about their homeland is relayed only in summary; no verbatim account survives in the informant's report - implied, ch 29.

	== Relationships ==		== Relationships ==
	- '''[[Angilly\|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]]''' - Angilly employs the informant as a local observer and written-intelligence source in Alkhalend, relying on her descriptions of the city's figures without having met her in person until after the rite of Kaleithi's divorce from Alkhand Oparan - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 7. By the time of the second book the informant continues to serve as Angilly's aide, attending private audiences and holding messages, while simultaneously reporting Angilly's movements and associations to Drathel under coercion - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29. The relationship is thus one of employer and agent that has been silently hollowed out: Angilly remains unaware that the person closest to her private business is feeding a rival her every movement.		* '''[[Angilly\|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]]''' - Angilly employs the informant as a local observer and written-intelligence source in Alkhalend, relying on her descriptions of the city's figures without having met her in person until after the rite of Kaleithi's divorce from Alkhand Oparan - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 7. By the time of the second book the informant continues to serve as Angilly's aide, attending private audiences and holding messages, while simultaneously reporting Angilly's movements and associations to Drathel under coercion - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29. The relationship is thus one of employer and agent that has been silently hollowed out: Angilly remains unaware that the person closest to her private business is feeding a rival her every movement.

	- '''[[Drathel]]''' - Drathel marks the informant after she arrives in Alkhalend carrying something unnatural, and thereafter "plays her on the line" as a conduit for intelligence on Angilly's operations - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29. The meeting between them is arranged with deliberate secrecy (a tavern with hidden screens), and Drathel's posture is one of a handler debriefing an asset: he files her disclosures as leverage and instructs her to keep digging. The informant's body and access are his instrument; her compliance is extracted, not solicited.		* '''[[Drathel]]''' - Drathel marks the informant after she arrives in Alkhalend carrying something unnatural, and thereafter "plays her on the line" as a conduit for intelligence on Angilly's operations - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29. The meeting between them is arranged with deliberate secrecy (a tavern with hidden screens), and Drathel's posture is one of a handler debriefing an asset: he files her disclosures as leverage and instructs her to keep digging. The informant's body and access are his instrument; her compliance is extracted, not solicited.

	- '''[[Tarcomir]]''' - The informant's only recorded interaction with Tarcomir is indirect: she hurries Angilly away from the Lor emissary before a diplomatic blunder can occur at the conclusion of Kaleithi's divorce ceremony - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 7. Tarcomir's significance in the scene is as the hazard she averts, not as a party to any bond with the informant.		* '''[[Tarcomir]]''' - The informant's only recorded interaction with Tarcomir is indirect: she hurries Angilly away from the Lor emissary before a diplomatic blunder can occur at the conclusion of Kaleithi's divorce ceremony - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 7. Tarcomir's significance in the scene is as the hazard she averts, not as a party to any bond with the informant.

	== Notable Quotes ==		== Notable Quotes ==

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The informant is an unnamed woman operating as a field intelligence asset in Alkhalend, embedded first as an agent of [[Angilly|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]] and later turned into a double-reporter by [[Drathel]]. Functioning as a local observer of the Peor court, she produces written descriptions of the city's key figures and attends private audiences on Angilly's behalf, holding messages and tracking movements from within the inner circle. Her written intelligence is detailed enough to allow Angilly to identify the blind [[His Tranquillity Oparan|Alkhand Oparan]] at a ceremonial pool from text alone, and her physical presence proves tactically valuable when she intercepts Angilly after a sensitive rite to prevent a diplomatic breach with [[Tarcomir]].

Her arc across the two books traces a quiet inversion: in her first appearance she is unseen, known only through the quality of her reporting and a single urgent intervention at the edge of a scene; in her second she is physically present but compromised, compelled to meet Drathel in a tavern chosen for its concealment and to relay, under the pressure of a mysterious mark, precisely the kind of information that makes her useful to Angilly. She reports Angilly's meetings, her departure for the Waygrove, and the background of two fugitives Angilly had helped escape. Drathel files these disclosures as leverage and instructs her to continue feeding intelligence.

The informant thus embodies the series' recurring theme of surveillance as both craft and violence: the same eyes that produce careful, precise descriptions for one patron become the instruments of another's coercion, and the aide who once hurried her superior away from a diplomatic catastrophe now sits across a table from her superior's enemy, methodically cataloguing what she sees.

== Character ==
=== Personality ===
The informant operates with disciplined caution: she selects a meeting place in Alkhalend distinguished by cool channels of running water and a hidden screen, indicating an awareness of the need for physical concealment as well as deniability - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29. Her written reporting on the Peor court is precise enough to allow identification of individuals from text alone, suggesting an attentive, detail-oriented temperament - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 7. When she does appear in person, her bearing is that of a subordinate executing a necessary task: she tracks Angilly down after a ceremony and hurries her away before a diplomatic error can be committed, without lingering or elaborating - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 7. Under Drathel's mark she continues to perform her duties as aide - attending private audiences, holding messages - while simultaneously feeding intelligence upward to a second patron, a compartmentalised compliance that shows neither open rebellion nor visible distress, only the steady execution of what has been demanded of her - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29.

=== Beliefs & Motivations ===
The informant's stated motivation in the second book is self-preservation under coercion: she has been "played on the line" by Drathel after being marked upon arrival in Alkhalend, and her cooperation appears to be extracted rather than freely given - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29. Nonetheless she continues to fulfil the functional obligations of Angilly's aide, suggesting either that the coercion does not extend to releasing her from those duties or that compliance with both handlers is her survival strategy. What she carries into Alkhalend - described only as "something unnatural" - and the precise terms of the mark that binds her remain unknown to the reader, as does whether any loyalty to Angilly persists beneath the compulsion - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29.

== History ==
=== Lives of Bitter Rain ===
The Resident's aide is an agent of [[Angilly|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]] posted in [[Alkhalend]], where they function as a local observer and source of written intelligence on the Peor court. Angilly had read the aide's written descriptions of the city's key figures-descriptions by which she identified the blind [[His Tranquillity Oparan|Alkhand Oparan]] at the ceremonial pool-but had not met the aide in person by the time she arrived in Alkhalend to attend the rite of [[Kaleithi]]'s divorce from Oparan and assumption of the Alborandi mantle - ch 7. The aide's presence is felt only at the scene's close: tracking Angilly down after the ceremony concludes, the aide hurries her away before she can commit a diplomatic blunder in front of [[Tarcomir]], who has just introduced himself as Lor's emissary and Angilly's opposite number - ch 7.

=== Days of Shattered Faith ===
The informant is an unnamed woman who meets Drathel at a tavern in Alkhalend selected for its cool channels of running water and a hidden screen. She has been marked by Drathel after arriving in the city carrying something unnatural, and now serves as an aide to [[Angilly]], attending private audiences and holding messages. Under coercion, she has been "played on the line" to feed Drathel intelligence about Angilly's movements and associations - ch 29.

During the meeting, the informant reports that Angilly granted a private audience to a [[Sage-Inquirer]] of [[the School of Correct Speech|Correct Speech]] who arrived unannounced, and that Angilly subsequently departed for the Waygrove. She further discloses that the two fugitives Angilly had previously helped escape through the Waygrove were "on the run from back home" and had said things about what happened there. Drathel files this information as leverage and warns the informant to keep digging - ch 29.

- The exact nature of the "something unnatural" the informant carried into Alkhalend, and what the mark entails - implied, ch 29.
- The full content of what the Waygrove fugitives said about their homeland is relayed only in summary; no verbatim account survives in the informant's report - implied, ch 29.

== Relationships ==
- '''[[Angilly|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]]''' - Angilly employs the informant as a local observer and written-intelligence source in Alkhalend, relying on her descriptions of the city's figures without having met her in person until after the rite of Kaleithi's divorce from Alkhand Oparan - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 7. By the time of the second book the informant continues to serve as Angilly's aide, attending private audiences and holding messages, while simultaneously reporting Angilly's movements and associations to Drathel under coercion - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29. The relationship is thus one of employer and agent that has been silently hollowed out: Angilly remains unaware that the person closest to her private business is feeding a rival her every movement.

- '''[[Drathel]]''' - Drathel marks the informant after she arrives in Alkhalend carrying something unnatural, and thereafter "plays her on the line" as a conduit for intelligence on Angilly's operations - Days of Shattered Faith, ch 29. The meeting between them is arranged with deliberate secrecy (a tavern with hidden screens), and Drathel's posture is one of a handler debriefing an asset: he files her disclosures as leverage and instructs her to keep digging. The informant's body and access are his instrument; her compliance is extracted, not solicited.

- '''[[Tarcomir]]''' - The informant's only recorded interaction with Tarcomir is indirect: she hurries Angilly away from the Lor emissary before a diplomatic blunder can occur at the conclusion of Kaleithi's divorce ceremony - Lives of Bitter Rain, ch 7. Tarcomir's significance in the scene is as the hazard she averts, not as a party to any bond with the informant.

== Notable Quotes ==
No verbatim dialogue attributable to the informant appears in the surviving text; her intelligence is relayed in reported speech or narrative summary.

== Tags ==
#informant · #coerced · #aide · #spy · #palleseen-surveillance

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