Hester is the keeper of the church adjacent to Hellsborough's civic hall — a building older than the Wisewood and older than the town, which predates everything around it including, apparently, the vocabulary needed to describe its purpose. Tom Calver's psycmask attempted to translate her role and produced tender, then warden, then a compound that dissolved before he could read it, and then nothing. Her explanation was that the role predates the notation, and any correct translation would need a word that either hasn't been coined yet or once existed and doesn't any more.
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The Strinxin are a xin faction distinguished from the Stanningxin by different metal and ornaments — primarily shrunken skulls and dried hands hung from the chest, worn in the manner of trophies. Their commanding chieftain is Ridgimoor, young, heavily scarred; his lieutenant Cragimold, older and more marked, captured Van on the moor wearing Stanningxin metal and recommended he be killed immediately at the great games. Ridgimoor countermanded this. Cragimold received the decision poorly.
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