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	- '''the burn victim''' - The old surgeon performs an emergency amputation on the burn victim, sawing through tissue with a divine-heated blade while [[Yasnic\|Maric]] restrains the patient. - House of Open Wounds, ch 4. The interaction is purely clinical and one-directional; the patient is under sedation or unable to resist.		* '''the burn victim''' - The old surgeon performs an emergency amputation on the burn victim, sawing through tissue with a divine-heated blade while [[Yasnic\|Maric]] restrains the patient. - House of Open Wounds, ch 4. The interaction is purely clinical and one-directional; the patient is under sedation or unable to resist.

	- '''Maric''' - [[Yasnic\|Maric]] assists during the operation by holding the patient down, then closes the stump himself after the limb is removed. - ch 4. The old surgeon's reaction to him is one of alarm: she realises he can perceive her fire god, an awareness she evidently does not expect in a bystander, and this marks him as perceptually anomalous in her estimation. - ch 4.		* '''Maric''' - [[Yasnic\|Maric]] assists during the operation by holding the patient down, then closes the stump himself after the limb is removed. - ch 4. The old surgeon's reaction to him is one of alarm: she realises he can perceive her fire god, an awareness she evidently does not expect in a bystander, and this marks him as perceptually anomalous in her estimation. - ch 4.

	- '''Accessory Lochiver''' - When [[Lochiver\|Accessory Lochiver]] begins playing his flute in the corner of the surgical room, the old surgeon shuts him down, tolerating no interference with the operation. - ch 4. The exchange is brief and purely about maintaining the working environment; there is no personal bond evident.		* '''Accessory Lochiver''' - When [[Lochiver\|Accessory Lochiver]] begins playing his flute in the corner of the surgical room, the old surgeon shuts him down, tolerating no interference with the operation. - ch 4. The exchange is brief and purely about maintaining the working environment; there is no personal bond evident.

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

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The old surgeon is a hawkish, hollow-cheeked woman with a red streak in her white hair who practises field surgery in the improvised triage centre known as the House of Open Wounds. - House of Open Wounds, ch 4. She is identified only by this descriptor; no proper name is ever given for her. Her defining feature, as far as the text allows, is her divine patronage: a small lizard-shaped fire god perches at her elbow, heating her sawblade with its tongue so that cuts cauterise as they fall, and licking her discarded needles clean between incisions. - ch 4. The god's presence is invisible to most, and its servitude to her is treated as a matter of course in her working method.

Her on-page significance is narrow but vivid: she represents the brutal pragmatism of the wounded-city medical stations, where divine magic has been reduced to a tool in a surgeon's hand and where the supernatural is so routinised that a small fire-god mourns the animal sacrifices it once received. - ch 4. Her brief scene also establishes a small but telling detail about [[Yasnic|Maric]]: she is alarmed to discover that he can see her god, an awareness she does not expect in a bystander, which marks him as perceptually unusual even within the House of Open Wounds. - ch 4.

== The Term ==
=== Meaning ===
"The old surgeon" is a purely descriptive reference rather than a title, epithet, or name. - House of Open Wounds, ch 4. The text supplies no proper name, rank, or formal address for the character; she is identified solely by her apparent age and her profession. Outside readers might expect this phrasing to function as a formal designation (the equivalent of a rank), but in usage it is simply how the narrator refers to an unnamed practitioner during the scene.

=== Usage ===
The descriptor is used by the narrative voice rather than by any in-world character speaking to or about her on the page. - ch 4. Within the scene, no other character addresses her by any name or title at all, which underscores her function as a background specialist in the triage setting rather than a named player in the story's political or military affairs.

== History ==
=== House of Open Wounds ===
The old surgeon is a hawkish, hollow-cheeked woman with a red streak in her white hair, operating in the improvised medical setting of the House of Open Wounds. - ch 4. She performs an amputation on [[the burn victim]], using a saw that her divine patron - a small lizard-shaped fire god perched at her elbow - heats with its tongue so that the blade sears through tissue as it cuts. - ch 4. The god also licks her discarded needles clean and mourns the loss of the animal sacrifices that once fuelled its powers. - ch 4. During the procedure, [[Yasnic|Maric]] holds the patient down while the surgeon works; once the arm is taken, Maric stitches the stump shut. - ch 4. The old surgeon is alarmed to realise that Maric can see her god, an awareness she evidently does not expect in a bystander. - ch 4. When [[Lochiver|Accessory Lochiver]] begins playing his flute in the corner of the room, the surgeon shuts him down, tolerating no interference with the operation. - ch 4.

== Relationships ==
- '''the burn victim''' - The old surgeon performs an emergency amputation on the burn victim, sawing through tissue with a divine-heated blade while [[Yasnic|Maric]] restrains the patient. - House of Open Wounds, ch 4. The interaction is purely clinical and one-directional; the patient is under sedation or unable to resist.

- '''Maric''' - [[Yasnic|Maric]] assists during the operation by holding the patient down, then closes the stump himself after the limb is removed. - ch 4. The old surgeon's reaction to him is one of alarm: she realises he can perceive her fire god, an awareness she evidently does not expect in a bystander, and this marks him as perceptually anomalous in her estimation. - ch 4.

- '''Accessory Lochiver''' - When [[Lochiver|Accessory Lochiver]] begins playing his flute in the corner of the surgical room, the old surgeon shuts him down, tolerating no interference with the operation. - ch 4. The exchange is brief and purely about maintaining the working environment; there is no personal bond evident.

== Notable Quotes ==
''(No verbatim dialogue from the old surgeon appears in the text of her scene.)''

== Tags ==
#surgeon · #fire-god-patron · #amputator

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