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	- '''[[Langrice]]''' - the tall bony outlander is her employee at the Anchorage, serving mulled cider to visitors on her behalf. The connection is stated by a third party ("His man there... her employee") and implies a subordinate, menial position within the establishment's staff hierarchy. He is not shown interacting with Langrice directly in the scene - ch 2.		* '''[[Langrice]]''' - the tall bony outlander is her employee at the Anchorage, serving mulled cider to visitors on her behalf. The connection is stated by a third party ("His man there... her employee") and implies a subordinate, menial position within the establishment's staff hierarchy. He is not shown interacting with Langrice directly in the scene - ch 2.

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The tall bony outlander is an unnamed minor figure in [[City of Last Chances]], encountered briefly in chapter 2 at the [[Anchorage]], where he functions as a servant offering mulled cider to arriving guests. He is identified only by his physical build and his foreignness, and he is named nowhere in the text. His single substantive contribution to the narrative is an offhand remark that he arrived at the Anchorage by way of the grove, a detail offered to a visitor in passing; he also mentions being lost and searching for his wife, though neither his identity nor his wife's is given.

Beyond this one scene, the character carries no plot function, no named relationships of consequence, and no recurrence. He exists in the novel solely as one of the transient, anonymous figures who populate the Anchorage's margins and confirm, in their wandering, that the grove-paths into the city are passable by ordinary travellers.

== The Term ==
=== Meaning ===
"The tall bony outlander" is not a title, office, or coined epithet within the world of the novel. It is the narrator's temporary descriptive phrase for an unnamed male servant at the Anchorage, distinguishing him from other guests and staff by his apparent height, emaciated frame, and non-local origin. No other character in the text refers to him by this phrase; it functions purely as a reader-facing identifier in the absence of a proper name.

=== Usage ===
The descriptor appears only in the narration of chapter 2, where the point-of-view character encounters the figure pouring mulled cider. Its register is casual and visual - the narrator notices build and strangeness, not rank or name - consistent with the Anchorage's treatment of its peripheral workers as interchangeable scenery. No character within the scene addresses him by a title or epithet; the only spoken identification of him is another person's aside that he is "her employee," referring to [[Langrice]] - ch 2.

=== Origin ===
The text gives no etymology or in-world convention for the phrase; it is simply the narrator's shorthand for an unnamed person whose most striking observable features are his height, his thinness, and his foreignness.

== Affiliations ==
- [[Anchorage]] - employee

== History ==
=== City of Last Chances ===
The tall bony outlander appears briefly in [[City of Last Chances]] as a minor figure at the [[Anchorage]], where he is identified as an employee of [[Langrice]] - "His man there... her employee" - and is encountered offering mulled cider to visitors - ch 2. Beyond his menial function at the establishment, he is characterized as a traveller who is lost and searching for his wife, and who states that he came through the grove - ch 2. No further information about his identity, background, or ultimate fate is recorded in the text; he functions solely as a transient presence at the Anchorage and a voice offering the grove-arrival detail in passing - ch 2.

== Relationships ==
- '''[[Langrice]]''' - the tall bony outlander is her employee at the Anchorage, serving mulled cider to visitors on her behalf. The connection is stated by a third party ("His man there... her employee") and implies a subordinate, menial position within the establishment's staff hierarchy. He is not shown interacting with Langrice directly in the scene - ch 2.

== Tags ==
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