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	- '''[[Lasaret]]''' - He is the presiding figure in whose office the meeting takes place and the agent who destroys the notary's transcript along with Angilly's report, reducing her professional function to ash - ch 3. The relationship is one of absolute power over the notary's output; she has no standing to object.		* '''[[Lasaret]]''' - He is the presiding figure in whose office the meeting takes place and the agent who destroys the notary's transcript along with Angilly's report, reducing her professional function to ash - ch 3. The relationship is one of absolute power over the notary's output; she has no standing to object.
	- '''[[Angilly\|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]]''' - He is the other attendee of the meeting the notary records, and his eighty-page report is burned alongside her transcript in the same act of erasure - ch 3. They share the status of functionaries whose work is rendered null by a superior's decision.		* '''[[Angilly\|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]]''' - He is the other attendee of the meeting the notary records, and his eighty-page report is burned alongside her transcript in the same act of erasure - ch 3. They share the status of functionaries whose work is rendered null by a superior's decision.
	- '''[[Accessories\|Accessory]]''' - The notary wears the pale uniform of an Accessory, linking her to that institutional role or guild within the state hierarchy - ch 3.		* '''[[Accessories\|Accessory]]''' - The notary wears the pale uniform of an Accessory, linking her to that institutional role or guild within the state hierarchy - ch 3.

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The notary is a birdlike woman wearing the pale uniform of an [[Accessories|Accessory]] who appears in a single scene in ''Lives of Bitter Rain'', serving as the official recorder of a meeting conducted in the office of [[Lasaret]] and attended by [[Angilly|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]] - ch 3. Her role is entirely ministerial: she transcribes what is spoken so that a written record of the proceedings exists within the bureaucratic apparatus of the state. She speaks no dialogue, expresses no opinion, and is given no interiority beyond her function.

The shape of her arc across the one book in which she appears is a single gesture of erasure. Before the chapter closes, Lasaret burns both Angilly's eighty-page report and the notary's transcript in his office, decorated with Faraslendi tapestries, a Seadragon banner, and a reptilian trophy, leaving no written trace that the meeting occurred - ch 3. Her narrative significance is thus defined by the destruction of her work: she embodies the fragility of official record-keeping when a single powerful individual decides the record is inconvenient.

== The Term ==
=== Meaning ===
In the context of this scene, "notary" denotes a functionary whose sole duty is to transcribe spoken proceedings into an official written record. The role carries no independent authority, discretion, or interpretive power; the notary captures what is said and nothing more - ch 3. The term here describes a clerk of the state apparatus, not a legal officer exercising judgment.

=== Usage ===
The word appears in the narrative voice as a neutral occupational descriptor. Its use signals that the meeting between Lasaret and Angilly is meant to carry institutional weight - that a written record is, in principle, a safeguard against the proceedings being denied or forgotten. That safeguard is precisely what Lasaret destroys, making the term's invocation quietly ironic: the machinery of documentation exists, but it serves at the pleasure of the man who can burn it - ch 3.

== History ==
=== Lives of Bitter Rain ===
The notary is a birdlike woman who wears an [[Accessories|Accessory]]'s pale uniform and whose function in this book is to record the proceedings of a meeting attended by [[Lasaret]] and [[Angilly]] - ch 3. Her presence is purely procedural: she takes down what is said so that an official written record exists. That record is destroyed in the same chapter when [[Lasaret]], in his office decorated with Faraslendi tapestries, a Seadragon banner, and a reptilian trophy, burns both [[Angilly]]'s eighty-page report and the notary's meeting record, erasing all written evidence of the proceedings - ch 3.

== Relationships ==
- '''[[Lasaret]]''' - He is the presiding figure in whose office the meeting takes place and the agent who destroys the notary's transcript along with Angilly's report, reducing her professional function to ash - ch 3. The relationship is one of absolute power over the notary's output; she has no standing to object.
- '''[[Angilly|Sage-Invigilator Angilly]]''' - He is the other attendee of the meeting the notary records, and his eighty-page report is burned alongside her transcript in the same act of erasure - ch 3. They share the status of functionaries whose work is rendered null by a superior's decision.
- '''[[Accessories|Accessory]]''' - The notary wears the pale uniform of an Accessory, linking her to that institutional role or guild within the state hierarchy - ch 3.

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