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	- '''[[Pravil]]''' - A fellow [[Armiger]] servant and drinking companion. The two are together at the [[Pledge\|Pledge (taproom)]] and act as a unit in mocking and physically shoving [[Yasnic]], and in being compelled by other patrons to pay for Yasnic's drink - ch 33.		* '''[[Pravil]]''' - A fellow [[Armiger]] servant and drinking companion. The two are together at the [[Pledge\|Pledge (taproom)]] and act as a unit in mocking and physically shoving [[Yasnic]], and in being compelled by other patrons to pay for Yasnic's drink - ch 33.
	- '''[[Yasnic]]''' - The target of Vinchec's and Pravil's mockery and physical intimidation. The hostility is resolved not by Vinchec's choice but by the intervention of surrounding patrons, who force the two servants to cover Yasnic's drink; Yasnic then retaliates by giving away all of Vinchec's coins - ch 33.		* '''[[Yasnic]]''' - The target of Vinchec's and Pravil's mockery and physical intimidation. The hostility is resolved not by Vinchec's choice but by the intervention of surrounding patrons, who force the two servants to cover Yasnic's drink; Yasnic then retaliates by giving away all of Vinchec's coins - ch 33.
	- '''[[God]]''' - Present at the taproom. When Yasnic gives away Vinchec's coins, God shakes Vinchec's leg and complains, though Yasnic herself is made to shiver at "the great sacrilege of it all" - ch 33.		* '''[[God]]''' - Present at the taproom. When Yasnic gives away Vinchec's coins, God shakes Vinchec's leg and complains, though Yasnic herself is made to shiver at "the great sacrilege of it all" - ch 33.

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

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Vinchec is an [[Armiger]] servant who appears briefly in [[City of Last Chances]] as a drunk patron of the [[Pledge|Pledge (taproom)]] during the night following the [[Gownhall uprising]], when [[Pal|Palleseen]] soldiers blockade streets across the city - ch 33. He shares the scene with a fellow servant, [[Pravil]], and the pair are loud, inebriated, and confrontational, drawing the attention of the room. His sole function in the narrative is to register the social aftermath of the uprising: he makes a crude joke at the expense of [[Pel]] and the [[Pal|Palleseen]] batons, obliquely references the disruption to [[Gownhall]], and takes part in physically harassing [[Yasnic]] before other patrons intervene - ch 33.

Vinchec's appearance is a single, self-contained scene with no sequel. He does not reappear after Yasnic gives away his coins and [[God]] shakes his leg in complaint; the taproom closes its doors on him - ch 33. His significance to the novel is therefore purely atmospheric: he is one of the voices in a crowded room that shows how ordinary servants drink, jeer, and stumble through the night after the uprising's failure, their grievances and prejudices surfacing once official authority has momentarily lost its grip on the streets.

== History ==
=== City of Last Chances ===
Vinchec is a [[Armiger]] servant who appears as a drunk patron at the [[Pledge|Pledge (taproom)]] in a single scene during the night following the [[Gownhall uprising]], when soldiers are blockading streets across the city - ch 33. He is in the company of another servant, [[Pravil]], and the two are loud and inebriated, drawing the attention of the room. Vinchec tells a joke centred on the [[tablethi]] word, which is the same element used in every [[baton]] of the [[Pal|Palleseen]] occupiers' magic-speaking weapons, quipping that one learns very little by learning it and thereby mocking the usefulness of studying [[Pel]] - ch 33. He also alludes obliquely to the uprising that has just convulsed [[Gownhall]], remarking on "the parlous state of education in this city, what with the, you know" - ch 33.

When [[Yasnic]] is present at the taproom, Vinchec and Pravil mock, dismiss, and physically shove her - ch 33. Other patrons in the room intervene and force the two servants to pay for Yasnic's drink - ch 33. In a subsequent exchange, Yasnic gives away all of Vinchec's coins; [[God]] shakes his leg and complains, but Yasnic is made to shiver at "the great sacrilege of it all" - ch 33. Vinchec does not reappear after this scene.

== Relationships ==
- '''[[Pravil]]''' - A fellow [[Armiger]] servant and drinking companion. The two are together at the [[Pledge|Pledge (taproom)]] and act as a unit in mocking and physically shoving [[Yasnic]], and in being compelled by other patrons to pay for Yasnic's drink - ch 33.
- '''[[Yasnic]]''' - The target of Vinchec's and Pravil's mockery and physical intimidation. The hostility is resolved not by Vinchec's choice but by the intervention of surrounding patrons, who force the two servants to cover Yasnic's drink; Yasnic then retaliates by giving away all of Vinchec's coins - ch 33.
- '''[[God]]''' - Present at the taproom. When Yasnic gives away Vinchec's coins, God shakes Vinchec's leg and complains, though Yasnic herself is made to shiver at "the great sacrilege of it all" - ch 33.

== Notable Quotes ==
:"the parlous state of education in this city, what with the, you know" - Vinchec, City of Last Chances, ch 33

== Tags ==
#armiger-servant · #drunk · #civilian

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